Elvenoaks Concepts
Higher Learning and self-nature
Compare this Buddhist view of an all-pervading force to R. Buckminister Fuller's view of the "metaphysical," his term for animate life. In his book Synergetics, he examines the distinction between animate and inanimate life (is a virus animate or inanimate?). His conclusion is that "no physical threshold does in fact exist between animate and inanimate . . . we are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected - - like it or not - - life is but a dream "(Synergetics*, "Wellspring," Fuller, 1997).
Might Fuller's concept of the weightless "energy" or driving force of life equal the Zen concept of sunyata or emptiness? What might the qualities be of this animating force?
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