Winter is a kind of pregnant emptiness. Spring emerges out of that--it
flourishes. And life flourishes in summer and then dies back into that emptiness
of winter. And you realize, oh, my thoughts are doing the same thing that the
ten thousand things do--they're part of the same tissue...And so that's another
radical reweaving of consciousness and wildness--what I mean by "wild
mind."
In this conversation, the poet David Hinton traces the shifts in human
consciousness that distanced us from nature, he draws on Tao and Ch'an
Buddhist philosophy in an effort to help us navigate the sixth extinction with
an ethics tempered by love.
