ABSTRACT
This chapter turns from the legacy of the great religious founders to what spirituality viable for the twenty-first century might entail. The willingness of the great religious founders to accredit the physical world, material creation can be a good stimulus to reflections on the ecological dimensions of future spirituality. Zen masters and others developed the tradition into a naturalistic aesthetic that helped people move toward enlightenment. Social justice requires economic and political arrangements that respect these realities and reflect them. Social justice is nowhere near so prominent a theme in Buddhist and Confucian writings as it is in Western texts. The two obstacles on the way to integrity: sex and money. The utility of prayer or meditation is that it gives people a means to deal with transcendence-contact it, open the soul toward it, and formalize its importance in their lives.
