ABSTRACT
The Earth's crust is composed of bedrock that is hidden under a blanket of snow and ice, soils and vegetation or water. The Hua-yen bedrock worldview is most easily grasped by imagining an infinitely regressing mirror that encompasses the entire universe in "simultaneous mutual identity and mutual intercausality". Asian philosophies and religions include a diversity of worldviews rooted in profound visions of deep and abiding unity, and these worldviews have something to offer us in a world of climate change, mass extinctions, depletion of freshwater, and rampant soil degradation. Earth and animal activism are based on moral values, not scientific ones, on beauty, ethics, and religion, without which it cannot sustain itself. Most activists speak and act as if their social justice cause were independent from and important than all other causes, or equally problematic, in competition with other social justice causes. Buddhist philosophy holds that we live in a world of radical inter-identification, nothing and no one is independent.
