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So something about our process is completely wrong. Something about our understanding of ecology is completely wrong. But for me, I look back at, for example, the Daoists. To me, the Daoists understood very deeply the complexity. Daoism really starts with just accepting the mystery and the complexity 00:19:33 of the world and not trying to necessarily explain it all, and then to pattern behavior after these natural processes
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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.
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- the Zen mindfulness practices demonstrated in the rest of the paper depend on one assumption
- that the scientific narrative employed are within the salience landscape of the reader
- if they are not aligned to these narratives (ie, if they are religious fundamentalists) then these practices will fail to be effective
- this suggests that we may need to appeal to an even more fundamental human quality that IS shared by all of us, the creation of narratives
- the Zen mindfulness practices demonstrated in the rest of the paper depend on one assumption
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The ecologist David Barash (1973) discussed the parallels between Zen Buddhism and ecology.
- The ecologist David Barash (1973) discussed the parallels between Zen Buddhism and ecology.
- interdependence and unity of all things was fundamental to both
- the practice of Zen and
- the science of ecology
- interdependence and unity of all things was fundamental to both
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- ecology
- Zen
- interdependency and unity are fundamental to both Zen and ecology
- both share a common nondualistic view of the fundamental identity of subject and surrounding
- a bison cannot be understood in isolation from the prairie
- understanding requires studying the bison-prairie unit
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- "The very study of ecology is the elaboration of Zen's nondualistic thinking".
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- David Barish
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- indyweb treats words and ideas as empty,
- that is, they are selfless, and have no meaning except in relation to all other words / ideas
- indyweb treats words and ideas as empty,
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- The ecologist David Barash (1973) discussed the parallels between Zen Buddhism and ecology.
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The Buddhist concept of interconnectedness or emptiness (all things are empty of a separate self) is represented by the metaphor of the Jewel Net of Indra
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- ecology
- Indra's net of jewels -translation
- of Indra's Net story
- “Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra,
- there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer
- in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions.
- In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities,
- the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each “eye” of the net,
- and since the net itself is infinite in dimension,
- the jewels are infinite in number.
- There hang the jewels, glittering like stars in the first magnitude,
- a wonderful sight to behold.
- If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it,
- we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number.
- Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels,
- so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring"
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- Cook, F. H. (1977). Hua‐Yen Buddhism: The jewel net of Indra. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. [Google Scholar]
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- The Buddha taught that everything is
- connected and
- constantly changing.
- These fundamental observations of the world are shared by
- ecology and
- evolution.
- We are living in a time of unprecedented rates of extinction.
- Science provides us with the information that we need to address this extinction crisis.
- 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.
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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
- The Buddha taught that everything is
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- Zen and deep evolution: The optical delusion of separation
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- Fred W. Allendorf
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- 2018
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Abstract
- The Buddha taught that everything is connected and constantly changing.
- These fundamental observations of the world are shared by ecology and evolution.
- We are living in a time of unprecedented rates of extinction.
- Science provides us with the information that we need to address this extinction crisis.
- 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.
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- zen and ecology
- translation - Indra's net
- Fred W. Allendorf
- Zen and Deep Evolution
- Adjacency Zen and ecology
- adjacency
- translation
- extinction crisis
- extinction
- human INTERbeCOMing
- social tipping point
- Zen and Evolution
- emptiness and evolution
- David Barash
- Indras net
- human interbering
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