• connected and
• constantly changing.

• ecology and
• evolution.

• but they rather result from an unwillingness to take the needed action.

I present mindfulness and meditative aspects of Zen practice that provide the deeper “knowing,” or awareness that we need to inspire action on these problems.

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• emptiness is interdependency and change
• in Deep Humanity praxis, it is equivalent to
  • human INTERbeing and
  • human INTERbeCOMing

• unite the sciences of ecology and evolution
• with the spiritual practice of Zen
  • in order to inspire actions to address the extinction crisis that we are currently facing.
• I do this by addressing the following three points:
  • Zen and science are both based upon empirical observations of the world.
  • Zen and science both tell us that there is no separation between humans and the world around us.
• Ecology and evolution provide the scientific background needed to address the biodiversity crisis;
  • Zen provides the deeper knowing that will motivate our action to address this problem

• Zen and deep evolution: The optical delusion of separation

• Fred W. Allendorf

• 2018

Source

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6099813/

Abstract

• The Buddha taught that everything is connected and constantly changing.

• We are living in a time of unprecedented rates of extinction.

• However, the problems underlying extinction generally do not result from a lack of scientific understanding, -but they rather result from an unwillingness to take the needed action.
• I present mindfulness and meditative aspects of Zen practice
  • that provide the deeper “knowing,” or awareness that we need to inspire action on these problems.