ways of looking

EcoDharma
EcoDharma

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?
EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Who is in the Wrong?

Animal lives are routinely sacrificed for the safety, comfort, or even convenience of humans. What would it mean to adopt a new view, one based on compassion rather than dominance?
Practice
Practice
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in April 2020, our guiding teacher Adam Lobel composed this supplication for clear seeing, compassion, and the flourishing of all life.
EcoDharma
EcoDharma
How can Dharma teachers and Buddhist sanghas renounce spiritual bypass and respond courageously to environmental crises and systemic injustice?
EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Reading Dōgen and Snyder Anew

What can a contemporary poet and 13th century Buddhist monk teach us about systems collapse?
EcoDharma
EcoDharma

David Loy and Guhyapati on Expanding the Scope of Ecodharma

Guhyapati and David Loy, each co-founders of prominent EcoDharma centers, reflect on a shared history of constructive agitation and the potentials of an ecologically-oriented Dharma.
EcoDharma
EcoDharma

A Call for Renewal, Resistance and Radical Change

In this fundamental ecodharma teaching, organizer, educator and ordained Triratna Buddhist Guhyapati asks: by rooting more in solidarity with one another than in fear, “what kind of dharma can we offer the world?”
Practice
Practice
On this occasion of Earth Day, Roshi Joan Halifax calls each and every one of us to dedicate ourselves to the authentic well-being of all.
EcoDharma
EcoDharma
Ecodharma pioneer David Loy identifies the essential dharma teachings that can support practitioners in robust and sustainable collective action.
EcoDharma
EcoDharma
An economic growth paradigm that produces endless consumerism and waste can only end in ruined lives and a ruined planet. Ajahn Sucitto contends that a life lived more simply can lead not only to personal satisfaction, but to surprising systemic change.