I view small scale dairy farming as a spiritual excercise on entropy and the daily grind required to stave it off. It's basically an intensive intervention of a natural system that viscerally exposes the fickleness of the thermodynamics of land animals and life.
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I think that's something that already exists. Can't think of where I heard of it, though.
Can't tell if sarcasm, but two versions come to mind; non-monastic farmers & monastics who farmed. - eg: Marpa is one of the 'lineage fathers' of Mahamudra, the first Tibetan in that line. Had an 'ordinary' life as a farmer whilst being a virtuoso translator & mediation master.
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Good distinction, im interested in the non-monastic but heavy duty practice style farming. Marpa is a great example, but perhaps an exception rather than model.
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Yes, mahasiddha hagiographies and lineage figures are perhaps best treated loosely as prototype, rather than a direct model we can use, especially given the specific concerns with farming today, and issues surrounding traditional lineages in Westerner contexts, and so on.
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And for the monastics who farmed, examples are all over the place. RE: Zen, as far as I know the farming traditions are more common in Korea and also where monasteries weren't near to a suitable begging route. Where begging was possible, farming tended to stop, farming is hard.
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Yeah farming as a practice lifestyle is hard to impossible without a good cushion of capital to set up manageable op.
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