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Thanissara
June 26, 2020

Throughout the pandemic, the slaughterhouse has been a hotbed of virus transmission among its workers. But our compassion can't stop there. We are called to confront and remedy the horrific treatment of animals raised to feed us.

Thanissara

EcoDharma

Listening to Young Voices

No Time to Lose

Kirsten Rudestam
June 23, 2020

Young people are voicing grief about the loss of their world—and organizing to stop it. Kirsten Rudestam, a young dharma teacher herself, asks us to heed their calls.

Kirsten Rudestam

EcoDharma

Climate, Corona, and Collapse

Karin Meyers
June 19, 2020

As racial justice protests swell, compounding the COVID-19 crisis that can already feel overwhelming, the Dharma continues to offer perspectives and practices to help us navigate these samsaric waters.

Karin Meyers

EcoDharma

What Would Healing Look Like?

No Time to Lose

Belvie Rooks
June 10, 2020

How do we navigate the intersecting griefs of personal loss and centuries of systemic racial oppression? Belvie Rooks's journey toward healing shines a powerful light amid the darkness of state violence and ecological destruction.

Belvie Rooks

EcoDharma

The Crab Grass and the Wave

Kristin Barker
June 5, 2020

Recent events of racial violence by state actors reveal but one aspect of the tendency towards domination that is latent in our culture. Our work to end ecological devastation then necessarily includes the eradication of the persistent, shape-shifting, and devastating pattern of white supremacy, starting with our own minds.

Kristin Barker

EcoDharma

Eco-Chaplaincy

In Service to a Suffering World

Gil Fronsdal, Susie Harrington and Kirsten Rudestam
June 1, 2020

"The growing field of eco-chaplaincy reflects the increasing awareness that our care and attention must extend beyond the human.” The directors of a new Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Training Program at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies aspire to cultivate the chaplains who bring compassionate response to all of nature.

Gil Fronsdal, Susie Harrington and Kirsten Rudestam

Creative

Reckoning with Invisible Deities (Part Two)

Lama Willa Blythe Baker
May 29, 2020

Lama Willa Miller reflects on how the coronavirus she calls a Dark Goddess has shattered our illusions of separateness in a world where everything leans. “Yours is a long song of interbeing.”

Lama Willa Blythe Baker

Creative

Reckoning with Invisible Deities (Part One)

Thanissara
May 25, 2020

Dharma teacher, author, and activist Thanissara takes us on a shaman’s journey to face the ferocious gaze of the corona god who has emerged from the netherworld and thrown us into the in-between.

Thanissara

Campaign

Break the Trance

Declare Climate Emergency Now

One Earth Sangha
May 18, 2020

Initiated by Buddhist Minister, climate activist, and author Thanissara in collaboration with One Earth Sangha and a network of Dharma and activist friends, this is a call to declare a climate emergency, at all levels of society, now.

One Earth Sangha

EcoDharma

Whose Lives Matter?

Bhikkhu Bodhi
May 15, 2020

Workers in any industry ought not be forced to choose between physical and financial health. And within the meat-packing industry, what of the brutal cost to animals of returning this sector to "normal"? Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi examines the layers of perverted value in a recent Trump Administration decision.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

No Mud, No Lotus