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Mindfulness as a Therapeutic Approach to Eco-Anxiety

Britt Wray
May 28, 2021

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.

Britt Wray

EcoDharma

Practicing on the Job

A Buddhist Climate Scientist Discusses Wholeness in the Workplace

Dekila Chungyalpa
May 6, 2021

Must we choose between science and spirituality? A Tibetan Buddhist environmental educator makes the case for a both/and approach to environmental healing.

Dekila Chungyalpa

EcoDharma

Unboxing Our Selves

Emma Palmer
November 18, 2020

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.

Emma Palmer

EcoDharma

The Future We Choose

Sam Mowe
October 30, 2020

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.

Sam Mowe

EcoDharma

Eco-Chaplaincy

In Service to a Suffering World

Gil Fronsdal, Susie Harrington and Kirsten Rudestam
June 1, 2020

"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.

Gil Fronsdal, Susie Harrington and Kirsten Rudestam

Creative

Reckoning with Invisible Deities (Part Two)

Lama Willa Blythe Baker
May 29, 2020

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.”

Lama Willa Blythe Baker

Creative

Reckoning with Invisible Deities (Part One)

Thanissara
May 25, 2020

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.

Thanissara

Practice

Befriending Eco-Anxiety (Part Two: Practices)

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

EcoDharma

Sit and Help, Help and Sit

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

EcoDharma

Climate Change is Making us Crazy

Interview with Norman Fischer

Canada's National Observer and Norman Fischer
July 8, 2017

Norman Fisher notes that because the challenge of climate change is a matter of "...human beings thinking and behaving in a way that’s guaranteed to compound our problems," Zen practices have something vital to offer.

Canada's National Observer and Norman Fischer

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No Mud, No Lotus