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Skillful Conversations

Talking About our Earth and Ecological Crises

Though most of us are concerned about climate change, we are not talking about it. Breaking our silence requires embodied awareness and skillful means, and is a form of engagement in itself.
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Tonglen for Eco-Anxiety

Dekila Chungyalpa offers a brief Tonglen practice that nourishes well-being in the face of eco-distress.
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How to Handle Grief When Equanimity Isn’t Enough

How can we fully meet the tragedies of life without collapsing or withdrawing?
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Breaking Climate Silence

An Interview with Chas DiCapua

If we’re concerned about the climate crisis, why do we struggle to talk about it? Dharma teacher Chas DiCapua offers guidance for wisely and carefully breaking the silence on the climate crisis right here and now in everyday conversations.
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Driven by Love

Reflections on a Public Act of Protest

Psychotherapist, author, and Buddhist priest Satya Robyn offers a vulnerable account of mindful disobedience.
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Beyond Pathology

Mindfulness as a Therapeutic Approach to Eco-Anxiety

As the effects of the climate crisis manifest increasingly starkly across the world, therapists are seeing a dramatic uptick in despair related to ecological crises. Several are applying mindfulness techniques to ease the burden.
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Nourishing Our Commitment

A Space to Cultivate Willingness, Courage and Intimacy

David Loy and Johann Robbins speak to the individual and communal need for ecobuddhist retreats.
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An Empowering Exchange with Life

Dekila Chungyalpa leads us in a bold and caring meditation, in which grief and distress are not only allowed, but welcomed—and transmuted.
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Practicing on the Job

A Buddhist Climate Scientist Discusses Wholeness in the Workplace

Must we choose between science and spirituality? A Tibetan Buddhist environmental educator makes the case for a both/and approach to environmental healing.
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The Challenge of Living Awake

Navigating the Inner Waves of Ecological Crises

A young activist and Soto Zen practitioner envisions a skillful and healing-oriented response to the devastation of our environmental crises.
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