As another year fraught with uncertainty and peril draws to a close, Roshi Joan Halifax explores the power of wise hope, free from attachment, to bolster our engaged practice.
Mindfulness as a Therapeutic Approach to Eco-Anxiety
Britt Wray
As the effects of the climate crisis manifest increasingly starkly across the world, therapists are seeing a dramatic uptick in despair related to ecological crises. Several are applying mindfulness techniques to ease the burden.
A Buddhist Climate Scientist Discusses Wholeness in the Workplace
Dekila Chungyalpa
Must we choose between science and spirituality? A Tibetan Buddhist environmental educator makes the case for a both/and approach to environmental healing.
A journey to an ancient landscape inspires a British ecopsychologist and dharma practitioner to reflect on the contraction of her life during the pandemic and how Buddhist teachings help her stay open.
Sam Mowe, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
With the U.S. poised to exit the Paris Climate Agreement, architects Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac describe how a Buddhist perspective still provides hope for its realization.
Gil Fronsdal, Susie Harrington and Kirsten Rudestam
"The growing field of eco-chaplaincy reflects the increasing awareness that our care and attention must extend beyond the human.” The directors of a new Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy Training Program at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies aspire to cultivate the chaplains who bring compassionate response to all of nature.
Lama Willa Miller reflects on how the coronavirus she calls a Dark Goddess has shattered our illusions of separateness in a world where everything leans. “Yours is a long song of interbeing.”
Dharma teacher, author, and activist Thanissara takes us on a shaman’s journey to face the ferocious gaze of the corona god who has emerged from the netherworld and thrown us into the in-between.
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