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Lessons from Fire

Parallels in Ecology and Enlightenment

Well-meaning but ill-advised tactics of suppression can make wildfires worse. How, then, should we respond to the fires of conflicting emotions?
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Transition Zones

Fire's Potential for Destruction and Creation

What can we learn from the wildfires that rage around the world—whose season seems to lengthen with each passing year?
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Beyond Hope or Despair

How can we work with reactivity—our own, and others'—and create the conditions for a truly effective response to ecological crises?
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Darkness Is Asking To Be Loved

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel invites us to let go of our posture, to fall off our seat into deep intimacy with our beautiful, suffering world.
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Ending the Smog of Ignorance

As the U.S. Supreme Court weakens already-insufficient environmental protections, Joan Halifax calls on us to resist institutional avarice, cruelty, and delusion.
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Re-enchanting Our Relationship with the World

The Arrow Journal Interviews Kristin Barker

How can deep attention help us counter ecological violence? In this interview with The Arrow, Kristin Barker explores the roots of the crisis and the remedies at hand.
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Metta in Action

Buddhist Nuns in Ladakh Fight Climate Change

An alliance of Tibetan Buddhist nuns is responding to ecological breakdown with medical, environmental, and spiritual care.
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Deepening Engagement Together

Alan Senauke in conversation with Kristin Barker

What does our practice ask of us as we bear witness to escalating loss? In this conversation from 2017, Kristin Barker spoke to Berkeley Zen Center abbot Hozan Alan Senauke about social Dharma and collective transformation.
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A Nepalese Community Faces Ecological and Social Peril

In northeastern Nepal, a destabilizing climate brings escalating uncertainty, economic hardship, and local tensions.
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Spring Thunder

Awakening and Action on Behalf of the Earth

If we drop all resistance to our situation, will we lose the ability to create change? In this article, late Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh suggests the opposite: authentically helpful action begins with profound inner peace.
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