From a Buddhist standpoint, humanity is already united with its place in nature. The problem is that people forget this fact, and then undertake efforts at reunification, which fail since you can sew back on a finger that has …
From a Buddhist standpoint, humanity is already united with its place in nature. The problem is that people forget this fact, and then undertake efforts at reunification, which fail since you can sew back on a finger that has not been severed. The first step of the Noble Eightfold Path is Right View, and all that is needed is a grounding in it and the subsequent path, and the unity that already exists will become apparent.
"As we continue to destroy the nature of things we get further and further from the unitive and cooperative ways that is creation."
Because people valorize self and desire fulfillment.
Yes indeed, a dangerous turn away from cooperation with our world and its abundance, a part of the whole or holy, as opposed to apart from the whole, alienated, frantic, and competitive
"This is all very cerebral analysis."
Analysis often is cerebral.
"reunite humanity to its place in snd of nature."
From a Buddhist standpoint, humanity is already united with its place in nature. The problem is that people forget this fact, and then undertake efforts at reunification, which fail since you can sew back on a finger that has not been severed. The first step of the Noble Eightfold Path is Right View, and all that is needed is a grounding in it and the subsequent path, and the unity that already exists will become apparent.
"As we continue to destroy the nature of things we get further and further from the unitive and cooperative ways that is creation."
Because people valorize self and desire fulfillment.
Yes indeed, a dangerous turn away from cooperation with our world and its abundance, a part of the whole or holy, as opposed to apart from the whole, alienated, frantic, and competitive