Mahayanics is the thumb of planetarity. It's the Bodhisattva vow turned into a design brief: build for the flourishing of all beings or don't bother building. I call it compassion operationalized.
How the word moved
I introduced it in October 2025 in the PAPE essays, as one of the five fingers. In April 2026 I took the vow out into space - if we ever engineer flourishing off this planet, it has to be multispecies flourishing. By July 2026 it had become my name for intentional terraforming done with care and reciprocity. Grand words, I know, for a guy with a laptop.
In my words
"It is compassion operationalized: a moral logic written into our systems."
from Bhumics: Planetarity as Philosophical Engineering (PAPE), Part 1, 23 Oct 2025
"The only enlightenment worth striving for is shared."
from Bhumics: Planetarity as Philosophical Engineering (PAPE), Part 1, 23 Oct 2025
Related
- Related Five Fingers of Planetarity - it's the thumb of the hand.
- Related Terraforming - I only accept terraforming when it's done with care, and that's what Mahayanics asks for.
- Related Planetary Alterity - that's where I carried the vow into space.
Still open
The Epistry synthesis calls Mahayanics a compassion protocol. I haven't written that protocol, and I don't know yet what it would look like.