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The Quality of Mercy

Thoughts on Thích Nhất Hạnh

A retired English professor relates how Dharma teachings helped her students envision alternatives to the dominant culture of extraction and exploitation.
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Clean Power for Bright Young Minds

How might we prepare young people to face the polycrisis with resilience and compassion? Sumi Loundon Kim shares a practice that she developed with her children.
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Heat Pumps in the Zendo

A Community Renounces Fossil Fuels

With its recent installation of an emissions-free heating system, Zen Mountain Monastery is one step closer to its goal of phasing out fossil fuel use by 2030.
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All Life is Sacred

Kristin Barker Interviews Lyla June

In this wide-ranging interview, Lyla June speaks about facing ancestral trauma, the power of forgiveness, and the joy of belonging to all of creation.
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Living Truthfully

Understanding and Countering Implicative Denial

If your life feels out of sync with what you know to be true, you're not alone. How might we heal the subtle disconnections that block engagement with our eco-social predicament?
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Healing the Separations

A Manifestation of Love in Action

How might we remedy the core delusion that underlies world-spanning systems of exploitation, oppression, and devaluation?
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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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How Buddhism Can Inform Climate Activism

A Conversation with Kritee Kanko

In this wide-ranging conversation, Kritee Kanko speaks to the power of Dharma practice to help us care for ourselves amidst ecological breakdown, clearly see the spiritual and political roots of our planetary crisis, and act in solidarity with our communities.
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Dharma Teaching and Dharma Values in the Age of Climate Change

An Open Letter from Rob Burbea

On the third anniversary of his death in May of 2020, we share this letter from Rob Burbea challenging dharma leaders to embrace the full implications of its ethical demands.
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Lessons from a Hermit Thrush

It can be tempting to cast humanity as an unambiguous villain in the unfolding story of Earth. But how might a more nuanced understanding support our engaged practice?
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No Mud, No Lotus

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