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No Time to Lose: What Would Healing Look Like?

June 10, 2020

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

The Crab Grass and the Wave

June 5, 2020

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

Reckoning with Invisible Deities (Part One)

May 25, 2020

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

Befriending Eco-Anxiety (Part Two: Practices)

May 4, 2020

Kaira Jewel Lingo
May 4, 2020

Kaira Jewel Lingo offers a set of practices to help us cultivate individual calm and support community connection, and encourages us not to give up on our collective capacity to effect social change.

Kaira Jewel Lingo

Befriending Eco-Anxiety (Part One)

April 27, 2020

Kaira Jewel Lingo
April 27, 2020

Mental suffering caused by the climate crisis—or the coronavirus pandemic—calls on us to offer kindness and company. In this article, Kaira Jewel Lingo invites us to transmute the otherwise unbearable.

Kaira Jewel Lingo

Use This Time Well

April 2, 2020

Joan Halifax
April 2, 2020

With pervasive uncertainty and heightened fear surrounding COVID-19, Roshi Joan Halifax’s reflections on the occasion of her climate protest offer useful wisdom: “this situation was the perfect time and place to practice.”

Joan Halifax

Sit and Help, Help and Sit

March 6, 2020

Pema Düddul
March 6, 2020

The devastation wrought by the wildfires shook one of the fundamental practices of some Australian Buddhists. An Australian Buddhist chaplain answers their question: “How can I meditate when the world literally burns around me?”

Pema Düddul

Book Review: Green Buddhism

February 14, 2020

Joan Mooney
February 14, 2020

Stephanie Kaza’s new book combines years of eloquent reflection on the development of ecodharma thought and practice with new ideas for how it can help us in the current climate crisis.

Joan Mooney

A Task for Mindfulness: Facing Climate Change (Part Two)

February 3, 2020

Bhikkhu Anālayo
February 3, 2020

The mind faced with difficulty often makes matters worse. In the conclusion of our two-part series, Bhikkhu Anālayo clarifies the role of mindfulness in managing our own potential for harm as we endeavor to respond to the cries of the world.

Bhikkhu Anālayo

Moving Mindfulness from “Me” to “We”

September 24, 2019

Ron Purser
September 24, 2019

What was once the providence of the mystics may be required for our survival. Only by knowing deeply what captures and distorts the mind can we replace our collective structures with that which is genuinely supportive, freeing and “sustainable.” Rod Purser’s article gives us an entry way into this critical exploration.

Ron Purser

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