radical compassion

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EcoDharma

Each of Us, an Animal Held Within the Vast Web of Life

If the Buddha were alive today, he would categorize human-centered perception as a vipallāsa, distortion of perception. What does it look like to see through and beyond this perception?
Creative
Creative
There are those among us have already learned to hold devastation and tenderness in the same breath, who have fallen into the dark and found something worth bringing back. Have you found a way to move amidst the charred and submerged? Will you show us how?
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EcoDharma

Losing the Taste for Destruction

Life gives onto life, what does one call this but love? What does the truest impulse of life itself have to teach us?
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EcoDharma

Moving Forward with Our Entire Hearts and Minds

What does vulnerability have do with wise action? Might it actually be the key?
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EcoDharma

Trusting in the Mighty Force of Solidarity

There are vows so fiercely true they cannot be broken, but they can break us. What can we learn from Avalokiteshvara about how to go on?
Practice
Practice

A Guided Meditation with Konda Mason

Breathe. Let go. There is nowhere to go, nothing to do, but to become aware of all that is and is possible in this moment.
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EcoDharma

An interview with Kazu Haga

What is the role of not-knowing in activism? What is the relationship between personal and collective healing in social change? Kazu illuminates the ancient spiritual roots of nonviolence.
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EcoDharma

Cultivating Eros, Mettā and a Sense of the Sacred

‘I love nature.' But what does it mean to love nature, and how might we deepen this experience of love?
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EcoDharma
What might be found for the turning towards and wide embrace of a crisis of faith? Perhaps an invitation to choose a new path.
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EcoDharma

Seeing, Confronting, and Resisting Empire

These times are terrifying. Thanissara’s sober words beckon our practice to rise, bear witness, and resist.