Wild Mind, Wild Earth by David Hinton

Author:David Hinton [Hinton, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2022-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

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The radical rethinking of conceptual paradigms in the cultural revolution of the sixties was well-advanced when Lynn White wrote “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis” in 1967—and Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism was an integral part of that revolution. White recognized the culture was still broadly under the sway of Christian assumptions, so he thought it more realistic to propose an ecologically benevolent form of Christianity: St. Francis’s quasi-pantheistic vision of love and care for earth and its creatures, essentially the conventional stewardship model. One saint cannot undo the entire Christian edifice, though. And like Bill McKibben, who was haunted by more radical alternatives while recognizing that social realities seemed to make them unfeasible, White with uncanny clarity recognized Zen Buddhism as the radical and thorough going paradigm-shift:

The beatniks, who are the basic revolutionaries of our time, show a sound instinct in their affinity for Zen Buddhism, which conceives of the man-nature relationship as very nearly the mirror image [i.e. “opposite”] of the Christian view.

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