Buddhism The Sun My Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Buddhism The Sun My Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh

• Diamond Sutra
• Highest cause
• Whole being
• Help every living being cross the sea of
  suffering
• Obstacles
• Self
• Person
• Living being
• Life span
• Life is one
• Self does not exist

• Notion of person non person
• Is mankind more important?
• Humans have no advantage
• Humans have no self
• Not happy with self
• So not happy with environment

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Buddhism The Sun My Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh

• Living being
• Made of non-living
• So protect
• Stones
• Soil
• Oceans
• Atoms Electrons
• Consciousness?

• Life span
• Life a a certain time, before not
• Life is made of death.
• Death is made of life.
• Cells die cells live
• Life death,
• 2 aspects of same thing
• Die peacefully
• Non-fear
• Non-anger
• Non-despair
• We will not burn out

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Buddhism The Sun My Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh

• Ten Penetrations
• All worlds penetrate a single pore, a single pore
  penetrates all worlds.
• All living beings penetrate one body, one body
  penetrates all living beings.

• Infinite time penetrates one second, one second
  penetrates infinite time.
• All Buddhist teaching penetrates one teaching,
  one teaching penetrates all Buddhist teaching.
• Innumerable spheres enter one sphere, one sphere
  enters innumerable spheres.

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Buddhism The Sun My Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh

• All sense organs penetrate one organ, one organ
  penetrates all sense organs.
• All sense organs penetrate non-sense organs,
  non-sense organs penetrate all sense organs.
• One penetration penetrates all penetrations, all
  penetrations penetrate one penetration.

• Every sound penetrates one sound, one sound
  penetrates every sound.
• All times penetrate one time, one time penetrates
  all times.
• Space contains time, time contains space.

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The Buddhist Attitude Towards Nature by Lily de
Silva

• Search for pleasure and affluence has exploited
  nature without any moral restraint
• Almost incapable of sustaining healthy life
• Polluted with severely disastrous consequences

• Irresponsible and morally wrong
• A way of life designed to eradicate human
  suffering
• Central problem of human suffering
• Philosophy of life reflecting nature"
• everything in the world which is not organized
  and constructed by man

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The Buddhist Attitude Towards Nature by Lily de
Silva

• Loka - world
• yathabhuta things as they really are
• dhammata and niyama - natural law or way

• Nature as Dynamic
• changes in nature and nothing remains static
• constant process of change
• Rain
• Apart from this process
• There is no rain
• No static nominal concept
• Thus change is the very essence of nature.

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The Buddhist Attitude Towards Nature by Lily de
Silva

• Morality and Nature
• Alternating cycles of evolution and dissolution
• Natural processes are affected by the morals of
  man.
• Appearance of greed
• Gradual loss of their radiance
• Ability to subsist on joy
• Effects on the external environment

• More and more greed,
• On the one hand their subtle bodies became
  coarser and coarser
• To curb the wrong doers and punish them a king
  was elected
• Sutta predicts future of events
• Further degeneration
• Human health deteriorated
• Anguttara Nikaya
• Lust
• Greed
• Wrong
• Grip human heart

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The Buddhist Attitude Towards Nature by Lily de
Silva

• Close relationship
• Human morality
• Natural environment
• Five natural laws
• Physical
• Biological
• Psychological
• Moral
• Causal (connects all)
• Demonstrate Man Nature bound together

• Sutta explains
• Greed famine
• Moral loss epidemic
• Hatred violence
• Greed, hatred delusion
• Produce pollution
• Within
• Without
• Man nature
• interdependent

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The Buddhist Attitude Towards Nature by Lily de
Silva

• Human use of Natural Resources
• Understand nature
• Danger of exploiting nature
• Current consumerism
• 40 years 4000 years
• Fossil fuels
• 2 centuries
• Millions of years

• Virtues
• Non-greed - contentment
• Non-hatred - social
• Non-delusion - frugality
• Non-aggressive harms neither fragrance or
  beauty, sweet honey

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The Buddhist Attitude Towards Nature by Lily de
Silva

• Animals Plant life
• Five precepts
• No injury to life
• Casting aside of weapons
• Compassion sympathy
• Even unintentional injury
• Loving-kindness
• All creatures
• Domesticated
• Rebirth among animals

• Vegetable
• Mountains, forest, etc

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The Buddhist Attitude Towards Nature by Lily de
Silva

• Pollution
• Earth
• Water
• Noise
• Beautiful
• Joy
• Inspiration

• Those upland glades delightful to the soul, Where
  the Kaveri spreads its wildering wreaths, Where
  sound the trumpet-calls of elephants Those are
  the hills where my soul delights.
• Those rocky heights with hue of dark blue clouds
  Where lies embossed many a shining lake Of
  crystal-clear, cool waters, and whose slopes The
  'herds of Indra' cover and bedeck Those are the
  hills wherein my soul delights.
• Fair uplands rain-refreshed, and resonant With
  crested creatures' cries antiphonal, Lone heights
  where silent Rishis oft resort Those are the
  hills wherein my soul delights.
• - Elder Mahakassapa

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Taoism and the Foundations of Environmental
Ethics by Po-Keung Ip

• Environmental crises
• Pollution
• Overusage
• Extinctions
• Science Ethics
• Environmental sciences
• Immature
• How man sees relationship
• Attitudes moral?

• Science Ethics
• Both vital
• Cant derive ethics from science
• Not ought from is
• Knowledge supports ethics indirectly
• Cant derive knowledge for ethics
• Minimally coherent
• Compatible with science
• Maximally coherent
• Receives support fro science

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Taoism and the Foundations of Environmental
Ethics by Po-Keung Ip

• Tao
• Eternal
• Nameless
• Intangible
• Empty
• All-pervasive
• Life sustaining
• Nourishing
• Not creating god
• Totally depersonalized
• Indeterminable with human knowledge

• Dynamic
• Rhythmic processes
• Ying/Yang
• Potential/continuous
• No chasm
• All connected
• Chaos no possible
• No special status for humans
• Everything related
• Self mutual transformation

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Taoism and the Foundations of Environmental
Ethics by Po-Keung Ip

• Man-nature
• Connected whole
• Wu Wei
• Inaction
• Better action-in-self
• According to its own nature
• No additional action necessary
• Deal with things before they appear
• Puts things in order before disorder arises

• Work in accordance to the laws of nature
• Act in accordance to nature
• Subject and object brought together
• Version of the natural

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Taoism and the Foundations of Environmental
Ethics by Po-Keung Ip