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What Is My Life For?

February 16, 2021

Tilly Campbell-Allen
February 16, 2021

How should we live amidst vast systems of interlocking harm? Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo invites us to begin by adopting nonviolence as a way of life.

Tilly Campbell-Allen

Core Practices to Support the Planet and Ourselves

December 3, 2020

Donald Rothberg
December 3, 2020

A veteran advocate and teacher of socially engaged dharma offers six practices to help us better face the climate emergency, as individuals and in community.

Donald Rothberg

Inspired by Standing Rock as the Fires Rage

October 9, 2020

Thanissara
October 9, 2020

As wildfire threatens to engulf her home, and as the world faces disaster following on disaster, Thanissara draws courage from the extraordinary spirit of solidarity she encountered at Standing Rock.

Thanissara

Sensing with a Tree

October 1, 2020

Bodhivata Dharmashanti
October 1, 2020

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

Bodhivata Dharmashanti

Living Earth Acknowledgment and Prayer

An Opening Ritual for Gatherings

September 28, 2020

One Earth Sangha
September 28, 2020

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.

One Earth Sangha

Awakening to the Suffering of Animals

June 26, 2020

Thanissara
June 26, 2020

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.

Thanissara

Whose Lives Matter?

May 15, 2020

Bhikkhu Bodhi
May 15, 2020

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.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

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

Of Endings and Risings

A Brutal Year Ends as Extinction Rebellion Rise

December 12, 2018

Thanissara
December 12, 2018

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.

Thanissara

A Plea For the Animals

September 6, 2017

Matthieu Ricard
September 6, 2017

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."

Matthieu Ricard

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An Opening Ritual for Gatherings

A Brutal Year Ends as Extinction Rebellion Rise

No Mud, No Lotus