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Feeling Climate Grief?

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.
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Establishing Sacred Refuge

The Power of Sangha

We consider Joanna Macy to be a root teacher for One Earth Sangha. Going forward, we will honor her birthday in that light. On the first observance since her passing, we share Joanna's delightful conversation with Adam Lobel from 2015.
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Giving Nature Back to Itself

Seeing Consumption in its Subtle Forms

“How would you like to be in relationship?” One might ask this question to the river, the tree, or the glacier.
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The Requirements for Real Change

The Quiet, Unglamorous Work of Our Time

To organize at scale amidst chaos and extreme climate events, we need to build real trust as we face collective vulnerability.
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The Bhikkhu and the Butterfly

Interview with Ajahn Pasanno and Julia Butterfly Hill

Interviewed here in 2005, a monk and tree-sitting activist reflect on the lengths they were willing to go, and the lessons they learned along the way, in the effort to abide by their fierce commitment to their beloved old-growth trees.
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A Path to Love and Regeneration

Losing the Taste for Destruction

Life gives onto life, what does one call this but love? What does the truest impulse of life itself have to teach us?
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The Most Radical Thing You Can Do

Staying Home as a Necessity and a Right

That ‘simpler, slower time’ that so many long for may just be a matter of making the simpler, slower choice.
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The Practice of Staying With

The Invitation of Our Times

What might become apparent when we neither cling to nor run from? If we accompany the experience, whether painful and pleasant, where might it lead us?
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The Dharma Is About Collective Liberation

An Interview with Lama Rod Owens

What happens to the Dharma when it meets the Black radical, prophetic traditions? It’s got everything to do with love.
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How the Dharma Taught Me to Teach

What Exactly Are We Doing Here Together?

What do trust and belonging have to do with a midterm test? In this piece, a Dharma teacher gets creative in the lecture hall.
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