One Earth Wisdom

Our Response

As a Virtual EcoDharma Center, our principal offering is the wisdom teachings and practices that support turning towards the reality of our situation and cultivating appropriate response. Guided by a teaching council representing several Buddhist traditions, we offer core programs such as the EcoSattva Training as well as EcoDharma articles curated from around the web by our editorial team.

Our offerings regularly integrate an understanding of how other social movements including racial and economic justice inform, support and compliment ecological concerns. Through a steady flow of insights, reflections, practices and fresh perspectives, we support our membership in developing a stable, rational and compassionate response to our collective challenges.

We invite you to explore and take part in our EcoDharma offerings, highlighted below.

To learn more about our response to this ever-changing and enormous challenge, see About Us.

We can meet our eco-anxiety and soothe the suffering we find there. Yet we need not be ruled by fear.

Cornerstone EcoDharma

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Many of us feel we have no one to talk with about ecological crises, despite the severity of the problems we face. Where does this ecological loneliness come from? And how might we break out of our isolation?
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Moving from a Culture of Death to a Culture of Life

In this provocative essay leading up to the People's Climate March in September, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi insists that technological changes will not be enough. We are called to recognize, confront and dismantle the structural causes of climate change.
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Eco-Dharma...must confront whiteness and privilege in order to "create earnest inter-dependent communities that understand that different people have different privilege and abilities," and seek to act on that understanding.

Updated for 2024/2025

The EcoSattva Training

Join us in a Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and Compassionate Action

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At Home with the Trouble, Together
“For anyone who’s yearning for a way to meet the often agonizing challenges of this time with a clear mind, a steady heart, a resilient body and a ferocious spirit, One Earth Sangha’s EcoSattva Training is a beautifully-designed and meticulously-crafted container.”

Registration for the new season is now open for groups.
Individual registration will open on October 17, 2024.

Featured EcoDharma

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A Teacher Reflects on the Dharma for Our Times

“How can we approach the pain of species extinction, the ongoing human-made hell in Gaza, inequality, racism, misogyny and so much more with wisdom, spaciousness, and compassion?”

Recent EcoDharma

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An Interview with Jess Serrante

One Earth Sangha sits down with Jess Serrante to talk about The Work That Reconnects, culture building, trauma, social movement ecology, the sacred, and visions of the future unfolding right now.
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An interview with Kazu Haga

What is the role of not-knowing in activism? What is the relationship between personal and collective healing in social change? Kazu Haga illuminates the ancient spiritual roots of nonviolence.
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On May’s full moon, Buddhists around the world commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha. In 2019, Bhikkhu Bodhi marked the occasion with a passionate call for a systems-wide climate awakening.

Practices

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A Guided Meditation for Grounding

In need of a realignment with Earth and sky? Peggy Ward guides a meditation to soothe the Vagus nerve and reground in our Earth body.
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A Nature Meditation on Calm and Peace

Mark Coleman meditates on peace in the presence of wild things. How is it that the stone and the tree remain still, even in the midst of human pandemonium? You’ll have to practice to find out.
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Practice

A Meditation on Giving Back to Earth

How can you be a small gift to life? Dr. Lyla June Johnston guides us into connection with what might be our principal purpose for existence–just in time for the consumption season.
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Feeling in need of an energetic tune-up? Lama Rod Owens guides us through an attunement practice to the four elements within our Earth-based bodies.

Rather than merely giving up something we want, renunciation chooses what is more valuable.

Creative Offerings

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A Poem in Honor of Endangered Species Day

If our winged, scaled, and shelled relatives could speak with us, what might they say? On Endangered Species Day, we share from our archive this original poem by our guiding teacher Mark Coleman.
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Read for a wide and loving embrace of Earth, from its mountains to meadows, frozen ponds to slender grass. In this poem, Rosemerry also dares to reach for hope.
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Of all the planets on which you could experience life, Earth may be the most trying. Poet Carolyn Chilton meditates on how the deep breath may make living here a little easier.
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How do you hold your grief with the Earth? Ten-year-old poet Ivy Wade holds her grief with the flowing river and the howling wind.