Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Jacques Coulardeau at Academia.edu (38)
FOR A MOTLEY POLYCHROMATIC
UNIVERSE
DISCUSSION
BUDDHISM AND MULTI-SPRITUALITY
Abstract:
An Abstract is a Post Scriptum. But can there be a post scriptum when
all has been said that had to be said, even if there is much more to say
altogether. In this world we are attached to the past that is like a
procreative cocoon, a stifling and choking womb in which we may reproduce for
ever and ever the same lopsided habits and customs that have no roots in free
thinking but only in enslaving tradition. Luckily Homo Sapiens decided on his
own to migrate out of Africa all over the
world and create a myriad of civilizations and cultures. Some in this world of
ours would like to go on with what it has been for centuries and millennia.
This is impossible. We have to reject the cocoon and we have to break the womb
that is like a fortified egg shell entombing us in the past. Let all windows be
opened, all doors be unlocked and pushed apart. Freedom is out there with
people who are different and want to be and remain different. If by any chance
secularism tried to reject some differences like religions and make us color
blind, then this could become a real dictatorship. This secularism of the full
separation of the state and the churches by the rejection of all religions and
churches out of the state territory of all public services and public spaces is
the real terrorism of the 21st century and it is alas the ideology of some
supposedly advanced countries.
Research Interests:
Rural Sociology, Indian studies, Indian Ocean History, Survival Analysis, Urban Sociology, Oral Traditions (Culture), Indian Ocean World, India,
Modern Day Slavery, and Enslavement
BUDDHISM AND MULTI-SPRITUALITY
Discussion
The subject of my
reflection in this first chapter, that came quite late in my three months,
emerged when I opened the Russian doll of the word « eco-cultural » in which
the cultural always seemed to be contained by the ecological. I wondered for
some time what culture was at stake. I observed and read a lot and came to the
conclusion that the cultural meant by this term of eco-cultural was the culture
accompanying the eco-systems that were being defended, and if they were purely
natural (fauna and flora), the culture of this approach was biodiversity and
all it entails, or if they were social and economic (traditional indigenous
life style), the culture was the biodiversity of traditional crops, traditional
agricultural methods, traditional community life, traditional social relations
and traditional entertainments, among which local rituals, religious or not.
Research Interests:
Buddhism, Buddhist
Philosophy, Buddhist Studies, Buddhist
Psychology, Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist
Meditation and Theravada
Buddhism and Modern Societies
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 2:04 PM 
