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EcoDharma

Meeting the Reality of the Climate

What do you do when you’re in love with a burning world? Here Mark Coleman offers seven R's for meeting the ecological crisis without going numb and without burning out. Can we move from falling in love with the Earth, to feeling what we're losing, to finding others who can stand with us in the fire.
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Joanna Macy on the Best Time To Be Alive

Dominant culture has no map for the territory we are entering. Yet what if the grief we carry for profound ecological loss is not a burden to manage, but a doorway? What if the very intensity of your sorrow is proof of how deeply you belong to this Earth, and how much love is still moving through you?
Practice
Practice

Meditation with the Earth, for the Earth, as the Earth

Catherine McGee, a guiding teacher with One Earth Sangha, offers five short exercises for supporting our relationship with the Earth.
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EcoDharma

Ecological Activism for the Global South

From the Bodhisattva vow to the deliberate design of injustice, this conversation asks what Buddhism has to offer a world undergoing dramatic change and lands on a simple truth: we may not get there in our lifetime, but we are called to build the path.
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EcoDharma

Compassion and Social Responsibility

What is this Buddhism that we love? Is it merely a refuge from the world or a path into deeper intimacy with the world?
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EcoDharma
Lou and Kristin explore the integration of Buddhist practice with climate action through the lens of the “quivering heart” — the capacity to hold climate grief, fear, and uncertainty with tenderness and courage.
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EcoDharma

Replacing the “Behavior Change” Playbook

For decades, climate and environmental advocates have tried to close the gap between what people know and what they do. Frustrated, our answer has been “more”: more information, more urgency, more compelling imagery. But what if the problem is our misunderstanding of the problem?
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EcoDharma

Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary

What if “nature” is right here in the experience of being alive? A lifelong city dweller reflects on how mindfulness of the everyday elements of water, breath, food, and fire can dissolve the illusion of separation between ourselves and the living Earth community.
Creative
Creative
This world is signaling to us constantly, both inviting us out of complacency and, in the same moment, offering endless gifts.
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EcoDharma

You Don’t Have to Carry This Alone

Situated somewhere between profession and spiritual practice, eco-chaplaincy is an emerging field rooted in contemplative traditions that is responding to the suffering arising from ecological crises. The handful of eco-chaplaincy programs, still small, signal a shift in how we understand care.