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David Loy

David Robert Loy is Director Emeritus and Cofounder of the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. He is a professor, writer, and teacher in the Sanbo tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. A student of Yamada Koun and Robert Aitken, he was authorized to teach in 1988 and leads retreats and workshops nationally and internationally. He is author of EcoDharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis and A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World, and he is co-editor of A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency. His website is davidloy.org.
EcoDharma
EcoDharma

I Vow to Be Political

Buddhism, Social Change, and Skillful Means

How does our Dharma practice call us into politics and shape our engagement? While we no longer live in the moment of Occupy and the Tea Party movements, the words of David Loy, Mushim Patricia Ikeda, and Joan Suthlerland speak powerfully to this moment of 2024.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

A Gathering in the Woods

Reflections on an Eco-Advisory Retreat for Dharma Leaders

In March 2023, 21 EcoDharma practitioners gathered to connect, practice, and exchange ideas on nourishing the Buddhist response to ecological crises. David Loy shares some of the insights and vital questions that emerged.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

The Buddha on Poverty and Plutocracy

Wealth inequality is not merely unjust—it's a threat to the fabric of society and the web of life. What would a Dharma response to institutional greed look like?
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

How to Handle Grief When Equanimity Isn’t Enough

How can we fully meet the tragedies of life without collapsing or withdrawing?
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Dancing with the Earth

Joanna Macy in Conversation with David Loy

In this wide-ranging conversation, Joanna and David bring forward the misunderstood, under-emphasized, and omitted gifts of the Buddha's teachings for today's troubled world.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

What Can Buddhism Offer to a World in Crisis?

A Conversation with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi and David Loy

What are the responsibilities of Buddhists in response to increasing economic inequality, ethnic and racial violence, environmental destruction, and other crises?
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Remaking Our Dharma

David Loy and Guhyapati on Expanding the Scope of Ecodharma

Guhyapati and David Loy, each co-founders of prominent EcoDharma centers, reflect on a shared history of constructive agitation and the potentials of an ecologically-oriented Dharma.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Nourishing Our Commitment

A Space to Cultivate Willingness, Courage and Intimacy

David Loy and Johann Robbins speak to the individual and communal need for ecobuddhist retreats.
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Session Three

Compassionate Reflection

Our ultimate goal is transformation at depth but we can’t get there unless we recognize ourselves with compassion. We need to understand how it is we found ourselves in this astonishing situation. In a process that involves not just mind, but heart and body, we are looking back, remembering both for ourselves and our people the causes and conditions that led us here. With great care and attention, we begin to untangle the tangle.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Buddhist Teachings on the Precipice

Ecodharma pioneer David Loy identifies the essential dharma teachings that can support practitioners in robust and sustainable collective action.
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