Swearer - "Hermeneutics of Buddhist Ecology Questions" -

1. Could the location of meditation, be it monastery or forest, affect one’s ability to achieve self-actualization? (pg. 24)
2. Does Buddhadasa value nature for its benefit to meditation or for its own inherent value? (pg. 25)
3. "…to care for them as they really are rather than as I might benefit from them or as I might like them to be." (pg. 27) Does this sound like its separating humans from nature?
4. Aren’t carefully tended gardens kept for personal benefit and for the benefit of other humans in an unnatural sense that humans control what grows and lives? (pg. 28)
5. What are the similarities and differences between Buddhadasa and Phra Prayudh’s views of interdependence? What about with the view of interdependence proposed in "The Jewel Net of Indra"?
6. Is Phra Prayudh’s opinion of forests more anthropocentric than that of Buddhadasa, why or why not?
7. Are the environmental problems facing the world today so bad that they cannot be fixed by changing values, such as gratitude and loving-kindness, or do we have to turn to science and technology? (pg. 34)
8. Do Harris’ views about animals and cultivation fit into the Buddhist perspectives or do they sound more like the earlier point of views we’ve studied? (pg. 38-39)