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The Bhikkhu and the Butterfly

Interview with Ajahn Pasanno and Julia Butterfly Hill

Interviewed here in 2005, a monk and tree-sitting activist reflect on the lengths they were willing to go, and the lessons they learned along the way, in the effort to abide by their fierce commitment to their beloved old-growth trees.
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Creative

Belonging

Perhaps the question isn’t, are we alone? But rather, who are we alone with?
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

The Circle of Your Influence

Learning How to Be Human

How to discover again, that at any moment, the whole world is within reach? Larry Ward teaches on the power of our five senses.
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Larry Ward
EcoDharma
EcoDharma

A World Imbued with Spiritual Energy

Rediscovering Animistic and Shamanic Elements of Asian Buddhism

What is Reindigenization? Many ancient threads were lost or discarded in Buddhism’s westward conversion. Kritee argues that Earth may be nudging us to weave them in again.
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Kritee Kanko
EcoDharma
EcoDharma

All My Relations

Where are our relatives? We share 92 percent of our DNA with mice. 44 percent with fruit flies. Zenshin Florence Caplow opens our eyes to the family beyond just those seated at our holiday dinner table.
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Practice

Evolutionary Remembering

What happens when we recognize that the very substances and processes of this being human reflect our grand belonging to this world?
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Rupert Marques
EcoDharma
A Dainty tree frog peering out from its water lily flower home. Cairns, Australia.
EcoDharma

Evolving EcoDharma

Foundations of One Earth Sangha

One Earth Sangha exists in part to evolve and share EcoDharma. But how do we define EcoDharma, what does it emphasize, and why do we consider this part of our mission?
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

The Last Note of Its Music

In the blasted landscape of an atomic test site, Anita Barrows reflects on our inescapable intimacy with Earth—and with the wounds dominant cultures have inflicted.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Life Is Not Useful

The Original Joy of Simply Being Alive

The ethos of consumerism urges us to see the world as a means to our satisfaction—a satisfaction that never arrives. In this essay, Tiffani Gyatso invites us to reexamine our relationship with the rhythms of life.
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Campaign

Protecting Oak Flat

A call to defend sacred land of the Western Apache

Mining companies are threatening to turn a sacred site into a copper pit. Many Apaches are working to defend their historic homeland, and you can help.
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