Highlights
When a houseplant shrivels under our care we feel the pain. Right now entire ecosystems are collapsing and the pain is immense.
My Invitation to us is to let our life be a practice of living the love we hold for all of life, with every breath, with every relationship, in every system that we encounter. This is the practice that I feel opens up in the next 10 years to healing at global scale.
It’s not so much about transcending the world literally, but it’s more about realizing the true nature of this world. When we talk about transcending and escaping this world, it doesn’t mean we go somewhere else completely, but we can through our practice experience this world in a very different way…. that’s what needs to be emphasized today.
We are transformed in terms of how we engage with the world and the world’s suffering. That’s what really transforms us, more than just what happens on the cushion, it’s also about transforming our fundamental ways of living in the world.
What is Dharma that is not eco-Dharma? How can we be teaching the Dharma that separates this off… this tradition that leans into suffering seems to be steering clear.
This recording is from the 2021 International Western Dharma Teachers Gathering. It is republished here with permission.
