This article by @Meaningness got me thinking: How much the origin of religion is influenced by geography?
Could Daoism or Zen have developed anywhere without vertigo inducing steep mountain slopes?
@MichaelAaronK @johndavidebert @martyrmadehttps://meaningness.com/metablog/meaningness-mountains …
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Do you think such conditions are possible in grasslands, deserts, or arctic?
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I truly don't know though I will note that the ancient deserts produced a huge number of mystics in their own right. My understanding is that the view of the night sky in a desert (before there was electric light pollution) is truly awesome.
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Life is too trippy,,, i can't reality anymore lol
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fwiw, my understanding of the Zen fondness of mountains is that those were places that were profoundly isolated from society but not so desolate as to be impossible to live an austere life as a hermit. Daruma is the archetypal mountain hermit.
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