★★★ Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology, by Badiner, Allan Hunt

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Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology

by Badiner, Allan Hunt

Reviewed by Richard Nilsen

Whole Earth Review

No.69 Winter 1990 p.126

COPYRIGHT Point Foundation 1990

The tidal wave of Earth Day books has roared in and receded, leaving
this jewel among the pebbles on the beach. The mindfulness and
concern for other beings that is central to Buddhist teaching here
makes a smooth transition to the environmental realm. The green
Buddhism" on display (in Prose, illustrations, and a little POetrY)
is bY writers like Joanna Macy, Bill Devall and Robert Aitken. The
book's title is a gentle pun on Dharmakaya "the body of truth."
There's some of that here too.

Far from the nihilism and escapism that is often imputed to the
Buddhist path, this liberation, this awakening puts one into the
world with a livelier, more caring sense of social engagement. The
sense of inter-connectedness that can then arise, is imaged - one of
the most beautiful images coming out of the Mahayana - as the
jeweled net of Indra. It is a vision of reality structured very much
like the holographic view of the universe, so that each being is at
each node of the net, each jewel reflects all the others, reflecting
back and catching the reflection, just as systems theory sees that
the part contains the whole.

Dharma Gala (A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology) Allan Hunt
Badiner, Editor 1990; 265 pp. $15 ($17 postpaid) from Parallax
Press, P.O. Box 7355, Berkeley, CA 94707; 415/548-3721 (or Whole
Earth Access)