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Climate and Mind

Mindfulness and Compassion as Pathways to a More Sustainable Future

In this essay, Christine Wamsler explores an overlooked driver of ecological crises—the feedback loop between the human mind and planetary systems. How might a deeper understanding of this connection transform our relationship with Earth?
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EcoDharma

The Power of Embodied Simplicity

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?
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EcoDharma

Tragedy in Norway

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?
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An Ecodharma Prayer of Earth

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.
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EcoDharma

A Challenge to Dharma Leadership

How can Dharma teachers and Buddhist sanghas renounce spiritual bypass and respond courageously to environmental crises and systemic injustice?
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EcoDharma

A Practice of the Wild

Reading Dōgen and Snyder Anew

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

Remaking Our Dharma

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.
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Solidarity with Life

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?”
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Prayer for the Future

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.
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EcoDharma

Buddhist Teachings on the Precipice

Ecodharma pioneer David Loy identifies the essential dharma teachings that can support practitioners in robust and sustainable collective action.
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