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A Non-Dual Ecology?

David Loy

The Buddha declared that all he taught was how to end dukkha, our “dis-ease.” Our manifest inability to live happily is not accidental, because it is the nature of an unawakened mind to be bothered about something. Is there a parallel with the present situation of unawakened humanity, and might the Buddhist solution to our personal predicament also point the way to resolving our collective one?

If so, the eco-crisis is as much a spiritual challenge as a technological one.

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David Loy is a professor of comparative philosophy in religion in Japan at Bunkyo University. He wrote The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory, and Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution, and has contributed a number of essays to KJ, including "Buddhism & Poverty,"(KJ#41), "The Dharma of the Rings" (KJ#56) and "Getting Beyond Good vs Evil: A Buddhist Perspective on the New Holy War" (#51)

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