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Extending Our EcoSattva Roots

For many of us in 2018, to track the state of equity, justice, and ecological health has been to feel a trembling resonance with collective suffering. We share here our reflections on 2018 and our ideas for EcoSattva practice in 2019 and beyond.
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Comes the Night

Gifts and Risks of the Winter Dark

One Earth Sangha's director takes a moment to reflect on the precious unique gifts offered by our particular orientation within the cosmos.
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Of Endings and Risings

A Brutal Year Ends as Extinction Rebellion Rise

In this intensely personal piece, Thanissara reflects on the events of 2018 and the unprecedented challenges to humanity they represent. She invites us to perceive their deep roots in the domination mindset and how we can, out of sheer necessity, respond with a fierce clarity of heart.
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Earth Care Week and Living the Change

Once again, as part of Earth Care Week, we invite Sangha's around the world to turn the light of the Dharma towards the ecological crises we all face and the possibility of an empowered, connected and even joyful response.
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Confronting Whiteness and Privilege in Eco-Dharma

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.
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Five Practices for Working with the Immense Challenge of Climate Change

"The Bodhisattva precepts extend from the idea that bodhicitta, or wise compassion, is the ground of ethical action and speech. We too can ground our activism, social engagement, and resistance in wise compassion." Lama Willa Miller offers five practices that can help us face the immense challenge of climate disruption and ecological crises in general.
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A Plea For the Animals

In writing about the ecodharma of not eating meat, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says, "The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering."
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Thriving Like Gorse

The Ulex Project

The new Ulex Project is one of three strands of training offered by the EcoDharma Centre -- training to thrive in, and bring healing to, damaged terrain.
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When the Tree Stops Bearing Fruit

Caring for the Earth as Buddhist Practice

Buddhism emphasizes that our individual actions affect the world around us, and it follows that caring for the natural world begins with each of us.
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Climate Change is Making us Crazy

Interview with Norman Fischer

Norman Fisher notes that because the challenge of climate change is a matter of "...human beings thinking and behaving in a way that’s guaranteed to compound our problems," Zen practices have something vital to offer.
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