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- Jul 2023
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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.
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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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My overall objective in this paper is to
- My overall objective in this paper is to
- 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
- My overall objective in this paper is to
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- Title
- Zen and deep evolution: The optical delusion of separation
- Author
- Fred W. Allendorf
- Date
- 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 ecological crisis
- human interbering
- human INTERbeCOMing
- emptiness and evolution
- social tipping point
- Adjacency Zen and ecology
- Zen and Evolution
- polycrisis
- ecological crisis
- Zen and Deep Evolution
- Buddhism and ecological crisis
- Fred W. Allendorf
- zen and ecology
- biodiversity crisis
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