Written by Joanna Macy
The Four R’s of Deep Adaptation
- Resilience – What values and behaviors do you want to keep in our culture and your daily life? (8:33)
- Relinquishment – What values and behaviors are you ready to let go of? (12:13)
- Restoration – What are the values and behaviors that you used to have in your culture or another culture that you’d like to adopt? (14:37)
- Reconciliation – With whom do you want to make peace while you can? (16:56)
Highlights
“How incredible, how lucky I am that I should be given this life, when so much depends on us.”
“We are going to build a redemptive, beautiful, non-violent culture, a life sustaining society, and we know by now we have the resources to do that, with our planet and with our minds and with our hands.”
“My friends, please stay mystified as to your actual identity.”
Resources
This teaching is excerpted from No Time to Lose: A Dharma Response to Climate Change, a daylong event hosted in September 2019 by Spirit Rock Insight Meditation Center. Participating teachers included Joanna Macy, Belvie Rooks, Jennifer Berezan, Venerable Anālayo, James Baraz, Thanissara, Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and others.