How Much is Enough?: Buddhism, Consumerism, and the Human Environment by Payne Richard

Author:Payne, Richard [Payne, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780861719402
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2010-03-10T03:00:00+00:00

125 Snyder, Gary Snyder Reader, 43.

126 Murphy, Place for Wayfaring, 106.

127 Snyder, Real Work, 117.

128 Snyder, Old Ways, 51. Emphasis original.

129 This statement confirms and expands on what Charles Molesworth has noted, that for Snyder “the reigning value is neither exclusively Western nor Eastern, but a master term—compassion or love—that surmounts the ethical system of both world views” (Molesworth, Gary Snyder’s Vision, 37). In the Snyder quotation given here, the “master term” is actually three Buddhist terms—wisdom, meditation, and morality—which, if interpreted in his ecosocially engaged way, can encompass both world views. However, I think Molesworth is correct in saying that compassion also can serve as such a master term, as long as it is understood as Buddhist compassion linked to prajñā and śīla as well as compassion arising from a deep ecosocial concern for suffering caused by hierarchy, centralization, and domination.

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