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Calculative thinking computes\u2026 it races from one prospect to the next. It never stops, never collects itself. It is not meditative thinking, not thinking which contemplates the meaning that reigns in everything there is\u2026 Meditative thinking demands of us that we engage ourselves with what, at first sight, does not go together. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Martin Heidegger, Memorial Address
found in \u201cThe Death of Environmentalism<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

Calculative thinking is equivalent to vij\u00f1ana <\/span>in Buddhism<\/a> \u2013 the mind which flutters on the surface of reality (\u201craces from one prospect to the next\u201d). It is juxtaposed to praj\u00f1a<\/span>, which sinks into the calming depths of reality (\u201creigns in everything there is\u201d). On the surface we cannot see beyond the next wave, especially when life is \u2018choppy.\u2019 In fact, the calculative mind can quickly get caught up in discerning \u2018this wave\u2019 from that one, dividing reality into chunks (nationalities, races, etc). But when one goes deeper one sees that the surface is all of one whole, one grasps the togetherness of all which was once thought disparate.<\/p>\n

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