Welcome to One Earth Sangha, a virtual EcoDharma center supporting a global community in the Path of Engaged Practice.
The EcoSattva Training
A Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and the Roots of Compassionate Action
“There is so much state-of-the-art knowledge and so much timeless wisdom in this Training – I deeply recommend it to everyone and every group willing to start their Ecosattva journey.”
Group registration is open now. Individual registration opens September 21.
As ten thousand years of climate stability is ending, the call to develop inner stability has never been more clear.
Upcoming EcoDharma Explorations
Join Us Live the Third Sunday of Each Month
Caring for Inner and Outer Turmoil
- October 16, 2022
Meditation teacher, author, and One Earth Sangha guiding teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo leads this EcoDharma Exploration on October 16.
Featured EcoDharma
We Cannot Ignore Buddhist Extremism
- Brenna Artinger
- October 3, 2022
Why are so many Buddhist practitioners reluctant to acknowledge Buddhist extremism? How can we respond when hateful ideologies take root and cause harm within our own traditions?
EcoDharma
Why Turn Inward Just as the Planet Needs Us Most?
Featured Practice
- Bodhivata Dharmashanti
- October 1, 2020
A hurricane-ravaged landscape offers inspiration and a lesson on resilience to a photographer and student of the dharma.
EcoDharma Art, Poetry, and Imagery
- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
- September 26, 2022
In this poem, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer reflects on the paradox of loving this gorgeous, hurting world.
The Path of Engaged Practice is itself made sustainable by compassion, commitment and community.
Featured Online Course
from Our Networks
Climate, Justice, Nonviolence and Regenerative social change
Can we take the inconvenient and risky actions necessary to minimize suffering? How might taking such actions become more normal, healing, holistic, and beautiful? Can they authentically express our deepest spiritual truths?
Led by Boundless in Motion and hosted by One Earth Sangha, this course begins May 15. Applications open now.
Led by Boundless in Motion and hosted by One Earth Sangha, this course begins May 15. Applications open now.
Events
from our Networks
A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency
- October 9, 2022
- Sangha Live
Online
In this session we will learn practices that enable us to go beyond our limited perception of reality to touch how interconnected with all life we are. Touching this interbeing, we can experience deep reverence for life and the earth, accepting that whatever we do to the earth (or any living being) we are really doing to ourselves.
Sister Santacitta, Pawan Bareja, and Thanissara with Guest teachers.
- October 5, 2022
- — October 26, 2022
Online
With Nicola Redfern and Rosalie Dores
- October 5, 2022
- — November 16, 2022
Online
Statements
from Leaders and Practitioners
A Western Soto Zen Buddhist Statement on the Climate Crisis
The Western Soto Zen Buddhist Association's statement on the climate crisis draws from a long term commitment from this rich tradition to Earth, sustainability, and compassion.
There is a way to be a human being
that causes all life to thrive.
— Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)
Featured Action Organizations
- Indigenous Climate Action: a coalition out of Ottawa, Canada seeking solutions to climate change by building a movement of Indigenous communities. Join them in asking City National Bank and the Royal Bank of Canada to stop violating Indigenous rights and fueling climate chaos.
- Banco de Basques: a Patagonia grantee based in Argentina advocating for a change in the way natural resources are managed, campaigning to create national parks while fighting deforestation, poaching, and dams. (en Español)
- EarthJustice: a San Francisco-based nonprofit environmental law firm wielding law and partnerships to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change. In their words, they are here “because the earth needs a good lawyer.” Check out their action alerts here.
Featured Calls to Action
Upcoming
- Take one of the many steps listed on Stop the Money Pipeline’s current calls to action. Some of these are ongoing and some are time-sensitive; check back regularly for updates or join their newsletter (linked at the bottom of the page) to stay current.
- U.S.-based Interfaith Power and Light shares upcoming actions on their Public Policy Page.
- Stop the Money Pipeline: Send a letter to executives at big banks asking them to reconsider their funding of the Mountain Valley Pipeline
- People v. Fossil Fuels – Tell the Biden administration: No new fossil fuel leases on our federal lands and waters.
Ongoing Opportunities
- The David Suzuki Foundation offers comprehensive resources for engagement at the local government level. View guides on assessing your local government’s climate plan and working with local leaders on climate action. You can also check out their Act Locally page.
- Take a step from Don’t Look Up’s resource page. Click on a step and scroll down to see some helpful tips for each one.
- Check out WECAN’s recommended actions for governments and financial institutions that came out of Stockholm+50. Reach out to your local governments and financial institutions and urge them to adopt these changes swiftly. More resources from the conference here.
- Stop the Money Pipeline:
- Move your money and divest from fossil fuels
- If you are a college student, learn about and launch a reinvestment campaign
- Tell your government representatives and local financial institutions to put people and planet before polluters.
Stories of Engagement
Buddhist Monastics Practice Forest Protection
- Dipen Barua
- March 19, 2021
Moved by intimate awareness of dependent co-arising, monastics in Southeast Asia have become leaders in protecting their local environment.
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