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Giving Nature Back to Itself

Seeing Consumption in its Subtle Forms

“How would you like to be in relationship?” One might ask this question to the river, the tree, or the glacier.
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The Most Radical Thing You Can Do

Staying Home as a Necessity and a Right

That ‘simpler, slower time’ that so many long for may just be a matter of making the simpler, slower choice.
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Vesak and Climate Crisis at the UN

On May’s full moon, Buddhists around the world commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha. In 2019, Bhikkhu Bodhi marked the occasion with a passionate call for a systems-wide climate awakening.
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What If We’re Telling the Wrong Stories About the Climate Crisis?

Sam Mowe interviews Rebecca Solnit and Joan Halifax

Stories have power not just to entertain and inform, but to shape our understanding of reality. How do dominant narratives support ecological injustice, and how might we discover life-giving alternatives?
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The Power of Embodied Simplicity

Looking Beyond Technological “Solutions”

Much energy is devoted to the search for external solutions to ecological crises. What transformative potential might we discover by attending to our bodies, by recognizing the Earth within us?
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Lessons from Fire

Parallels in Ecology and Enlightenment

Well-meaning but ill-advised tactics of suppression can make wildfires worse. How, then, should we respond to the fires of conflicting emotions?
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Deepening Engagement Together

Alan Senauke in conversation with Kristin Barker

What does our practice ask of us as we bear witness to escalating loss? In this conversation from 2017, Kristin Barker spoke to Berkeley Zen Center abbot Hozan Alan Senauke about social Dharma and collective transformation.
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Consume Less, Share More

Giving Radically

The foundational Buddhist principle of dana, or generosity, poses a profound challenge to our separative, extractive relationship with Earth. What forms of ecological, economic, and social renewal might be possible if we see through the delusion of endless acquisition?
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Pilgrimages, Pandemics, and this Precious Planet

As we begin to emerge from Covid-19 restrictions, psychotherapist Emma Palmer calls into question our 'right to travel,' including the spiritual pursuit version.
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What Is My Life For?

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.
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