Week 5 Lecture 2: From Self to Soil: Buddhist Interdependence and Ecological Living

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Buddhism

9 Terms

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3 Poisons

Attachment, aversion, and ignorance

Depicted at the center of the Bhavacakra

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Attachment

Clinging to material things and experiences

Associated with a rooster

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Aversion

Rejecting, resisting, or reacting negatively towards unpleasant things

Represented by a snake

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Ignorance (delusion)

Misunderstanding reality

Failing to recognize impermanence, non-self, or dependent origination

Represented by a pig

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Zen branch of Mahāyāna

As early as 6th century CE in India

Indian monk, Bodhidharma

Sanskrit dhyāna (meditation) → Chinese chan → Japanese zen

  • Indian notion of meditation blends with Daoist idea of concentration and attachment to the Dao

Meditative practice attempting to bring the mind under control as a process of attaining enlightnment

Teaches that enlightenment is achieved by realizing that one has Buddha nature

  • Must come through own efforts

A number of “schools” have developed, but there is no central sacred text

  • There is the potential for direct realization within all sentient beings


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Interdependence and emptiness

The 4 Noble Truths teach that desire and suffering are linked

Emptiness: nothing exists independently; there is no separate self

Interdependence: everything exists through relationships with other beings and conditions

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3 Traits of Zen practice

  1. Cultivating mindfulness - just being

  2. Awakening to the emptiness of the separate self

  3. Perfection of character - no static state of perfection, continued progress


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Networks of nature and meditation

Christopher Key Chapple links this to interdependence

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Zen Ecology - Christopher Ives

Draws on root poisons

Ignorance as disconnection from nature and the consequences of human action

  • Enhanced awareness is not sufficient; there is a need to find ways to respond to current issues, both lifestyle and systemic

Attachment as craving more resources, commodities, convenience, and consumption

Aversion as resisting limits, inconvenience, change to routing