EcoDharma

16 Core Dharma Principles to Address Ecological Crises

Foundations for Guiding Understanding and Response

One Earth Sangha
October 31, 2013

What are the Dharma principles that can motivate and inform our response to ecological crises? In 2013, a group of more than 30 teachers from various Buddhist traditions offered this list.

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Holding Space

Reflecting on the First Earth Care Week

Kristin Barker
October 8, 2013

With the first annual Earth Care Week concluding, we invite you reflect with us on your experiences, insights and ideas. Let's explore what it means to express a Buddhist response to climate change.

Kristin Barker

EcoDharma

It Is Here We Awaken

Catherine McGee
August 13, 2013

Practicing the first foundation of mindfulness, knowing body internally and externally, we can come to know we are of this Earth. And it is here, on this Earth, that we take our place as human beings.

Catherine McGee

EcoDharma

Spiritual Ecology – The Cry of the Earth

One Earth Sangha
August 3, 2013

The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked what we need to do to save our world. “What we most need to do,” he replied, “is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.”

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EcoDharma

Buddhism + Ecology

Guhyapati
August 2, 2013

The fundamental Buddhist teachings around interconnectedness, non-violence, and conditionality all contribute to both a practice and understanding that augments and honours the ecological paradigms now arising.

Guhyapati

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In This Together

Vipassana Teachers Confront Climate Change

Lou Leonard and Kristin Barker
July 10, 2013

Catherine McGee helped organize the climate discussion at the gathering of International Vipassana Teachers. Here she gives her personal account of what transpired and what is ready to unfold.

Lou Leonard and Kristin Barker

EcoDharma

The Awakening That Is Possible

Vipassana Teachers Confront Climate Change

One Earth Sangha
July 8, 2013

On June 11th, 2013, the International Vipassana Teachers gathered at Spirit Rock for their triennial meeting and in that specifically discussed how the Insight meditation community might support a wise response to climate change.

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No Mud, No Lotus

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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