Gaia and buddhism

GAIA AND BUDDHISM

Buddhism is more like a skill than a religion. Especially the Japanese Zen Buddhism is connected to what is the most masterful way to do things.
Buddhism reaches for happiness and skill by reaching for naturality, especially naturality in ways of using the attention. That can be thought of as reaching for the happiness, health and naturality of the state of complete naturality and health of the beginning, i.e. reaching for the paradise at the beginning, reaching for Gaia or Eden! Also the Buddhist compassion toward all living beings fits well together with Gaia.


THE BUDDHIST QUEST FOR HAPPINESS

The Buddhist quest for happiness is a quest for naturality. A characteristic of Buddhist wisdom is compassion toward all living beings. That is a characteristic of a healthy world and so of a healthy living being. The world and we form an interconnected whole. When we reach for the health, naturality and happiness of ourselves, we have to understand that it is interconnected with the health, naturality and happiness of the rest of the world. So we need to sincerely wish for a better world at the same time that we reach for a happy life.
So what is a healthy world like and a healthy individual? This we can understand via the natural evolution. It gives a strongest one wins point of view, which we can nowadays use to solve the world's problems via the winning option, which was the nature paradise at the beginning of time. It turns out that it is the winning option also nowadays: brings the best intelligence and work capacity, crowds easiest to govern etc. We just didn't know it. Now that we know, we can make that knowledge a road mark to a better world, to a paradise like that one at the beginning of time, but this time with all the technology at some role in it. It is the human side, which stays unchanged, the technology has changed and will change for until it is fully developed. And then we will have a real paradise for all living beings.
There is a similar thought in Zen Buddhism, which advices that the way of naturality is the masters' way. How did it come about that the natural evolution created a paradise, a world full of love? It is because harmony is the strongest arrangement, the force of allegiances the most beneficial investment for living beings (and for the now developed artificial intelligence). And once allegiances, symbiosis like arrangements were formed, allying become a question of putting each building part to its correct, best place in the huge already optimised system. If one succeeded in that, one had chosen the most beneficial, strongest choice. If not, one was bound to lose to the others who had succeeded. So it is caring for the whole, good moral, which wins, because the allegiances are so beneficial: one can see their effect as a vector sum.


MAKING MEDITATIVE OBSERVATIONS ABOUT FEELINGS

In thinking it is important to notice things as they are, that gives also feelings objectivity. Go step by step to the right direction: when you notice something, mark that to your picture of the situation, then observe your feelings further. The goal is to observe feelings as if they were a nature landscape: completely undisturbed by your observations and the words that you use to describe them. Keep in your mind a picture of how things really are. Then choose a structure described by words to approximately fit the structures that you have noticed in the world, i.e. in your feelings. That way thinking and concepts do not disturb your observations and feelings. Aim at hitting the truth, even if that means admitting that you do not know. This road leads to excellent quality thinking with a meditative i.e. natural state of mind undisturbed by the thoughts: the thoughts are like fingers pointing to the fact itself /feeling.

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