[lbo-talk] Re: Reverence for Nature

BklynMagus magcomm at ix.netcom.com
Fri Sep 5 10:14:34 PDT 2003


Wojtek:


> Religious treatment of nature was only a reflection of the material capabilities of humans to control it.

In Buddhism, humans are viewed as being in service to nature (as well as to all other sentient beings). Since Buddhists are in a constatnly evolving state of interbeing with nature, they can neither control nor revere it.

Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister



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