On The Ecological Ethic And Modern Value Of Buddhism

The life and existence of the human race are threatened because of the deteriorating ecological environment. Many countries are devoting to solving this problem, but the people are still not satisfied with the consequence.Buddhism regards the human's greediness hatred and ignorance as the root of the deterioration of ecological environment. Ecological ethics in Buddhism, such as equality, lenity, have been demonstrating the relationship between the nature and human.On the basic of originism, Buddhism thinks everything origins from each other and human are unified with everything, that is, what human being is, what the environment is, and vise verse. Everything is of equality and one's existence is the premise of the other's, so there is on differences between height and lowness. Due to the equality of everything, human shouldn't crack themselves up that they dominate the world, otherwise they should treat every kind of plant and animal with heart full of lenity.Furthermore, Buddhism exposed the root of the deterioration of ecological environment-human's greediness and point out the cardinal measurement in beautifying environment is getting rid of human's greediness in life practice. For example, a Buddhist temple is not only a practical instance showing Buddhist monks are pursuing ideal world of ecology, but also a harmonious model of ecological environment.Ecological ethics in Buddhism have great modern value, from which we can learn and draw on their experience, change our mind, form our true opinions, beautify ecological environment and make human race harmony with the nature.