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Sensing with a Tree

A hurricane-ravaged landscape offers inspiration and a lesson on resilience to a photographer and student of the dharma.
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Living Earth Acknowledgment and Prayer

An Opening Ritual for Gatherings

A Living Earth Acknowledgement is a rich practice that can remind us of our ecological nature and avail us to ways of being beyond domination.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Awakening to the Suffering of Animals

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.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Whose Lives Matter?

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.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Befriending Eco-Anxiety (Part One)

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.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Of Endings and Risings

A Brutal Year Ends as Extinction Rebellion Rise

In this intensely personal piece, Thanissara reflects on the events of 2018 and the unprecedented challenges to humanity they represent. She invites us to perceive their deep roots in the domination mindset and how we can, out of sheer necessity, respond with a fierce clarity of heart.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

A Plea For the Animals

In writing about the ecodharma of not eating meat, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says, "The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering."
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Dedication of Merit

For the closing of gatherings, a practice of giving away any and all benefits.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Buddhism and the Sacred Feminine

An Interview with Thanissara - Part 2

"The sacred feminine" is a convenient term, yet "all distinctions are transcended in our own minds and hearts." We may draw on the “collaborative energy of the feminine," to transform our current environmental crisis.
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Affirming the Sacred Together

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Faith traditions the world over gathered on June 12 to inspire protection of sacred Earth. The live webinar we offered on that day featuring Jayna Geiber from the Order of Interbeing is available here.
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