An Ethics of Wild Mind – A Conversation with David Hinton

About this episode

David Hinton discusses how ancient philosophies can help us reconnect with the living world amidst modern disconnection.

If the very act of seeing distances us from the living world, how can ancient modes of seeing and being help us navigate our era of disconnection? This week we return to our conversation with poet, translator, and author David Hinton as part of our exploration of the seasons. Drawing on Taoist and Ch’an Buddhist philosophies, David reveals how offering attention to the beauty of simple moments, like birdsong and blossom-fall, can bring us into a particular quality of awareness; and how the cycles of absence and presence in the seasons are mirrored by the cycles of form and emptiness in our own inner worlds. Read the transcript. Discover our latest print edition, Volume 6: Seasons . Photo by Phil Dera

People in this episode

Host: Emergence Magazine

Guest: David Hinton

Topics covered

• ethics
• wild mind
• Taoism
• Buddhism
• awareness
• seasons
• disconnection

Keywords

• ethics
• wild mind
• Taoism
• Buddhism
• awareness
• seasons
• disconnection
• beauty
• presence
• absence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Emergence Magazine

Books & works: Volume 6: Seasons

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