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How Do You Manifest True Nature?

Might the greatest demonstration of our Buddha-nature be a humble and harmonious relationship with Planet Earth? Mushim Patricia Ikeda contemplates an answer to the pine tree koan.
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EcoDharma

Buddhism, Social Change, and Skillful Means

How does our Dharma practice call us into politics and shape our engagement? While we no longer live in the moment of Occupy and the Tea Party movements, the words of David Loy, Mushim Patricia Ikeda, and Joan Suthlerland speak powerfully to this moment of 2024.
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EcoDharma

On Not Turning Away from Other-than-Human Loss

Unexpected teachers in our daily lives offer timeless lessons in the dharma—if we suspend judgement, open the heart, and look long enough to listen.
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EcoDharma

Lessons from Ladakh’s Climate Leadership

By adapting traditional Buddhist wisdom to contemporary challenges, a community in Ladakh is devoting itself to the sacred duty of protecting land.
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EcoDharma
Many of us experience learned helplessness in the face of climate and other crises. Sarah Jaquette Ray leads a warm inquiry into the causes of this mind state and the possibilities for a different response.
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EcoDharma

Vows, Resolutions, and Right Resolve

In a culture that in some ways wants us to feel inadequate, it's worth examining how we relate to our resolutions.
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EcoDharma
Anam Thubten Rinpoche shares a call for us to see the sacred in every facet of our world.
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EcoDharma
Can those of us embedded within modernity—particularly those who materially benefit from it—learn to live against it?
Practice
Practice
In celebration of the life of monastic and scholar Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, we share this practice he composed in response to global warming and ecosystem collapse.
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EcoDharma

Cultivating Just, Equitable Communities

How might a new understanding of mindfulness, one rooted in ethics and social engagement, help unravel systems of exclusion and degradation?