In Praise of Radiant Beings: A Retrospective Path Through Education, Buddhism and Ecology David W. Jardine TABLE OF CONTENTS SERIES EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION: “IT ONLY MAKES IT BETTER” The Privilege Of Youth The World is Not Scarce but Abundant Not Plain Clean Gifts Taking on the State of the Object The Good Qualities of Sandalwood A Word about Tsong-Kha-pa If It Actually Exists, It Must be Possible Hitherto Concealed One Last Indulgence for Now A Note on What Follows and Acknowledgements of Sources PREAMBLE 1: “WE TWIST FIBRE ON FIBRE” CHAPTER 1: “TO DWELL WITH A BOUNDLESS HEART”: ON THE INTEGRATED CURRICULUM AND THE RECOVERY OF THE EARTH (1990) Introduction The Recovery Of The Earth Concluding Remarks I: “To Dwell With A Boundless Heart" Concluding Remarks II: This Piece Of Paper PREAMBLE 2: “DON’T SAY ‘THERE MUST BE . . . ’” CHAPTER 2: "THE FECUNDITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL CASE": CONSIDERATIONS OF THE PEDAGOGIC HEART OF INTERPRETIVE WORK (1992) Introduction The "Isolated Incident" as the Substance of Inquiry An Interpretive Reading of the Instances of our Lives Concluding Remarks: On Interpretation, Pedagogy, and Hermes as Trickster and Thief Afterword PREAMBLE 3: “THE DEEPLY EXPERIENTIAL ECOLOGY OF ‘JUST THIS’” CHAPTER 3: “THE STUBBORN PARTICULARS OF GRACE” (1995) Prelude Math Facts on a Teddy Bear's Tummy Reflections on a Class in Early Childhood Education: Placing "5+3=8" Back into All its Relations Interpretive Descent and The Mathematicity of the World Concluding Remarks PREAMBLE 4: “KIDS RUNNING FROM PLACE TO PLACE” CHAPTER 4:"UNDER THE TOUGH OLD STARS": MEDITATIONS ON PEDAGOGICAL HYPERACTIVITY AND THE MOOD OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (1996) “Environmental Education” Ecological Mindfulness: Education is Environmental Manic Pace Ecological Healing We Cannot Do To Children What We Have Not Already Done To Ourselves PREAMBLE 5: “SO, HERE WE ARE” CHAPTER 5: ALL BEINGS ARE YOUR ANCESTORS: A BEAR SUTRA ON ECOLOGY, BUDDHISM AND PEDAGOGY (1997) First Next Then So PREAMBLE 6: “SUBJECTIVITY IS A DISTORTING MIRROR” CHAPTER 6: BIRDING LESSONS AND THE TEACHINGS OF CICADAS (1998) PREAMBLE 7: “REMEMBERING THIS, YOU WILL WEEP” CHAPTER 7: “IT’S ALL ONE MEDITATION” (1999) PREAMBLE 8: SELF-ABNEGATION The Delusions We Believe In Good Morning Everyone “Pulverize the Deep Falsehood” An Endnote CHAPTER 8: FILLING THIS EMPTY CHAIR: ON GENIUS AND REPOSE (2004) David W. Jardine & Jennifer Batycky “A Little Smokeless Pipe” Empty Chairs What is to Come The Metaphysics of Genius “So True, So Fully Existing” PREAMBLE 9: GUARDING WATERWAYS CHAPTER 9: Translating Water (2008) All Translation is Interpretation Betrayal Kerplunk! It Will Startle You A Being Reposing in Itself Opening Ripples Floating in a Jar of Rain Final Pedagogical Reflection PREAMBLE 10: “EVERY SECRET LOSES ITS FORCE” CHAPTER 10: “THE SICKNESS OF THE WEST” (2008) PREAMBLE 11: “A TEMPORARY MEDICINE” CHAPTER 11: AN ONTOLOGICAL DELUSION (2012) PREAMBLE 12: “KEEP RADIANTLY WELL” CHAPTER 12: “SICKNESS IS NOW ‘OUT THERE’” (2012) “Where we Think We Are” “Restlessness Becomes Irrelevant” When Things Go Wrong PREAMBLE 13: HELLS CHAPTER 13: "TIME IS ALWAYS RUNNING OUT" (2013) “A Slow Sort of Country!” Story One: Empty Time and a Succession of Nows Story Two: Industrial Production and the Efficiency of Schooling A Few Closing Bits And Pieces PREAMBLE 14: “WELL, LYLE” CHAPTER 14: INTRODUCTION: “WE ARE HERE, WE ARE HERE" Jackie Seidel & David W. Jardine (2014) Preamble "So, Here We Are" "The Aviator" Preamble 15: “If You Are Frightened” CHAPTER 15: "JUST THIS ONCE": AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PEDAGOGY OF SUFFERING (WITH GRAHAM MCCAFFREY & CHRISTOPHER GILHAM) (2015) PREAMBLE 16: “THE UNSPOKEN VOW” First Second Third Fourth CHAPTER 16: THOUGHTS ON THINKING THROUGH REGRET AND HOW AFFLICTIONS CAN BE TEACHERS (2015) Prelude Afflictions Can Teach, With a Side-Glance to the Will to Power Two Paramitas Side Scrawls A Mis-remembered Pythonesque Coda PREAMBLE 17: “A HALT IN THE RUSH OF THINGS” CHAPTER 17: "TIME IS A BRINGER OF GIFTS" (2015) PREAMBLE 18: “THIS IS A DEGENERATE TIME” It’ll Do “Lionizing Nostalgia And Progress At The Same Time” Thinking Becomes Unthinkable CHAPTER 18: AN ODE TO XMAS PRESENT (2015) PREAMBLE 19: “THE SLEEP OF REASON BRINGS FORTH MONSTERS” Non Sum Qualis Eram The Linger Itself CHAPTER 19: A FAILED ATTEMPT TO FINISH A THOUGHT LEFT IN MID-AIR BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS (2015) PREAMBLE 20: "THESE THINGS ARE FANTASTIC" “There Will Never be a Time” “Down in the Weeds” Generation Stage Meditation “This means you!” CHAPTER 20: IN PRAISE OF RADIANT BEINGS (2014) A Preambling Couplet "Even There" Ah! Wabi Sabi "Protodoxa (Urdoxa)" "Break Open the Being of the Object" "Every Word Breaks Forth" "It Draws You Into Its Path" "Present in the Thing" Post-Ambulatory Couplet REFERENCES 1