The Support of the Five Elements
Dr. Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John, senior teacher in the Triratna Buddhist Community and award-winning author, led this EcoDharma Exploration on March 20.
Working with Paradox and Uncertainty in the Anthropocene
Meditation teacher and Awake in the Wild founder Mark Coleman led this EcoDharma Exploration on February 20.
EcoDharma Explorations
One Earth Sangha offers EcoDharma Explorations, monthly gatherings that focus on different facets of EcoDharma. Recordings are provided for anyone who cannot attend or wishes to revisit a gathering. Register for an EcoDharma Exploration Upcoming Explorations Our next EcoDharma Exploration will be on Sunday, July 28. We will send an announcement via our email list […]
Connected and Embedded
How can we honor the true impact of our everyday living and embrace our belonging to this world? Susie Harrington of Desert Dharma was our featured guest on December 19, 2021 for this EcoDharma Exploration.
Compassion in Action
In this EcoDharma Exploration on January 23, environmental lawyer Melissa Hoffer offered insight on US environmental policy and how we can bridge the gap between aspiration and action.
Session Eight
In the closing session, we’ll how the process of letting go, going deep and reforming ourselves can become a regular part of our practice. We’ll also look at how we can create sacred and nourishing spaces in our Sanghas that support authentic investigation and diverse forms of engagement. We might take our own EcoSattva Vows together and discover how connections we’ve made here can go forward.
Session Seven
Equipped with a deeply rooted sense of our belonging and calling, we turn outward. In earlier sessions, we opened up some of the habitual but limited ways that we engage with others around social transformation. Now we’ll look at what does work supported by research and our own honed wisdom. We’ll clarify in particular our agency in relationships (implicit and explicit) and groups (social norming) as well as what sabotages that agency.
Session Six
Continuing in the relational spiritual task, attunement with the unknown, we’ll open further to so much more than the conventional holding of that truth. We’ll welcome whatever arises, from nothing to mystical everything.
Session Five
To be thoroughly aware of the dramatic changes underway and to set ourselves up to be authentically helpful is to learn to stay with profound uncertainty, to metabolize a mind-boggling and heart-breaking situation to the point of compassionate clarity. This session takes on that spiritual task. Here at the apex of our journey, we will support practitioners as much as their system will allow, an opening of view, heart, and identification. Earth, as each of us, is moving into radical change and can do so with as much wakefulness is available to us. With mind, heart, and the sense of who I am more open than ever before, we can learn to stay and be with, attending to the wordless and unfamiliar. Participants will be supported to listen at depth. We can begin to listen to sense what wants to emerge.
Session Four
Having opened up internally and individually, we rise to the collective and historical, understanding how objectification accumulates over time in the form of dominant institutions, how delusion is codified and how domination spreads that delusion. Participants are invited to explore, with compassionate accountability, how the dominant cultural body conquers, colonizes, and exploits not only Earth and other peoples but its own members. This is where we let it all in, the full catastrophe.