resilience Listing • One Earth Sangha

Entering the Bardo

A Cosmic Nudge to Reimagine Ourselves

September 11, 2020

Joanna Macy
September 11, 2020

The natural and social systems that sustain us are losing their stability, observes Joanna Macy. This state of bardo, or transition, can be painful and frightening—but if we face the reality of collapse and cultivate inner stability, we can find the courage to faithfully serve all that we love.

Joanna Macy

Islands of Sanity in a Sea of Chaos

July 28, 2020

Kaira Jewel Lingo and Kritee Kanko
July 28, 2020

One Earth Sangha collaborators Kaira Jewel Lingo and Kritee reflect on the potential of building small, awakening communities for support and resilience.

Kaira Jewel Lingo and Kritee Kanko

No Time to Lose: The Four R’s of Deep Adaptation

June 30, 2020

Joanna Macy
June 30, 2020

One of our treasured teachers and elders, Joanna Macy, guides us in considering how cultivation of resilience, relinquishment, restoration, and reconciliation can help us find a way through the civilizational collapse we see all around us.

Joanna Macy

Climate, Corona, and Collapse

June 19, 2020

Karin Meyers
June 19, 2020

As racial justice protests swell, compounding the COVID-19 crisis that can already feel overwhelming, the Dharma continues to offer perspectives and practices to help us navigate these samsaric waters.

Karin Meyers

The Great Adaptation

May 12, 2020

Raymond Lam
May 12, 2020

How historic is this current moment of disruption? Will we forever talk about life BCV and ACV—before corona virus and after corona virus? And what does it teach us about climate change?

Raymond Lam

Befriending Eco-Anxiety (Part Two: Practices)

May 4, 2020

Kaira Jewel Lingo
May 4, 2020

Kaira Jewel Lingo offers a set of practices to help us cultivate individual calm and support community connection, and encourages us not to give up on our collective capacity to effect social change.

Kaira Jewel Lingo

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

Sit and Help, Help and Sit

March 6, 2020

Pema Düddul
March 6, 2020

The devastation wrought by the wildfires shook one of the fundamental practices of some Australian Buddhists. An Australian Buddhist chaplain answers their question: “How can I meditate when the world literally burns around me?”

Pema Düddul

Green Himalayas and an Eco-Spiritual Future

December 5, 2019

Raymond Lam
December 5, 2019

Buddhistdoor writer Raymond Lam describes a promising initiative that connects inner and outer practices in a region both at the heart of the Buddhadharma and on the front lines of the climate emergency.

Raymond Lam

Moving Mindfulness from “Me” to “We”

September 24, 2019

Ron Purser
September 24, 2019

What was once the providence of the mystics may be required for our survival. Only by knowing deeply what captures and distorts the mind can we replace our collective structures with that which is genuinely supportive, freeing and “sustainable.” Rod Purser’s article gives us an entry way into this critical exploration.

Ron Purser

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