Darwin Meets the Buddha

Human Nature, Buddha Nature, Wild Nature

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Paul A. Keddy

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Did you hear? Charles Darwin has invited Siddhartha Gautama to hike the Appalachian Trail through the Great Smoky Mountains. What stories will they share? What advice might they offer for living in modern times? What might they say about solving global environmental crises? Some hints: they begin with the nature of human dissatisfaction. And how humans form social hierarchies with rulers. The nature of memory. And even desire for meat. They also talk about birdwatchers, matchmakers, sex, tyrants, lobsters, peacocks, Stalin, the French Revolution, and, yes, even giant ground sloths. Enlightenment, too. So, pick up your backpack, and join the adventure. CONTENTS Introduction The Men and Their Theories 1. Craving for Resources: Desire, Dissatisfaction, and Suffering 2. Living an Illusion: Mind as Cocoon 3. The Primate Prison: The Origin of Self 4. Selective Memory: Maintaining the Illusion 5. The Urge to Impress: Priests, Kings, and Dominance Hierarchies 6. Killing Minds and Killing Fields: Interference, Competition, and Aggression 7. Insatiable Consumption: When Big Brains Meet Big Animals 8. Getting Along: An Ecological View of Compassion 9. A Brief History of Life: Co-operation and Community 10. Meditation in Action: Seeing Through the Simulation 11. Enlightened Society: The Evolutionary Imperative Acknowledgments Appendix: How to Start Now Further Reading Figure Credits Index

Author Biography:

Dr. Paul Keddy has been a professor of ecology for 30 years, and has published over 100 scholarly papers and six books. He has been designated a Highly Cited Researcher, awarded the National Wetlands Award for Science Research by the Environmental Law Institute, and recognised by the Society of Wetland Scientists with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The focus of his work has been upon the principles that organize plant communities, with particular emphasis upon wetlands. Keddy has been a Buddhist practitioner since the early 1980s. He has lived in the forest much longer than Thoreau, and he is catching up to Charles Darwin and St. Francis of Assisi.

Release date NZ

January 20th, 2020

Author

Paul A. Keddy

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

10 illustrations

Pages

242

Dimensions

152x229x14

ISBN-13

9781896559575

Product ID

33365825

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