“Right MAP Making: Five Ways to Make Maps for a Future to be Possible” needs to be practiced to be better defined, and this is more than I alone can give to it. It needs your help and effort. That said, I willaddress the dirt, to make clear “where the roots came from.” The broadside draws its inspiration from Buddhist ethics, ecofeminist, and ecotheology theory, the deep ecology, conservation and wilderness movements, the beauty of the earth, water, blank spaces, the unconscious, the Beloved Other, Mozart, and a JOY and love both for and within the world it-Self. It follows from a personal practice of making maps, teaching art, observation, and cartography, and a love for the body of the earth. There are many pressing concerns in the world: sex, class, society, population, consumption, environment, water, and disaster, to name but a few. And it is important for the making of maps, responding to the spatial aspects of any one of these concerns, to address and to awaken, in the mapping itself, to ethical issues. The broadside, “Right MAP Making” derives its form directly, after much consideration and many drafts over several years, from the Five Buddhist Precepts for laypersons. These are not dissimilar to the Jewish and Christian Ten Commandments and similar ethical works. Labeled as a manifesto, it aspires “to make public” the responsibilities of making maps. I think of it as a more personal credo or set of principles addressing the intention of ethical conduct on the part of the mapmaker, saying; “I believe,” or “I aspire to map in this manner.” Less as credo, it “is intended to articulate the fundamental principles of ethical conduct in mapping and maps”; it is an effort to initiate a discussion about the ethics of making maps and to remind us that our making is not isolated and without consequences. The Five Buddhist Precepts are Not Killing, Not Stealing, Avoiding Sexual Misconduct, Not Lying, and Not Taking Drugs. The Vietnamese Zen