Wild Mind, Wild Earth: David Hinton @Detroit Institute of Arts (Lecture & Conversation)

David Hinton is an American poet and translator who specializes in ancient Chinese Zen &  Taoist literature and poetry. 

WILD MIND, WILD EARTH:  AN EVENING OF ZEN & ECOLOGY at the DIA

WITH TREASURED AUTHOR, TRANSLATOR & POET DAVID HINTON

The arts were considered forms of Ch’an (Zen) Buddhist practice in ancient China, and mountain landscape was integral to that practice.  Hinton will show how this integration works, and how Zen as a spiritual practice is recognizing the kinship of mind and nature, one that must be reanimated, seeing through our modern views and ways of devaluing & exploiting our planet, if we are to end her destruction.  How ancient Chinese spirituality & modern western environmental thought flow together at this critical juncture in human history is at the heart of Hinton’s new book, .  The evening will be a launch party for the book.Wild Mind, Wild Earth:  Our Place…