What Is Mine to Do in These Times?

A Guided Meditation with Kritee Kanko

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Kritee Kanko offered this guided meditation as part of One Earth Sangha’s EcoSattva Training: At Home with the Trouble, Together. Watch for the launch of the newest version of the EcoSattva Training on October 26th: Becoming a Force for Nature.

From the Practice

We will start by rooting our bodies into the cushion or chair. Sometimes it’s good to imagine ourselves as these trees that sometimes feel shaken by the storms and high winds, but we have to remember that we have roots that go down deep, deep, deep into the core of Earth. Can you let Earth hold you?

I invite you to take a walk, an imaginary hike up a trail. You have a lot of questions, these multiple crises. Keep walking. You have questions. What is your role, your unique role? What is your medicine? What is your gift in these times?

The birds are calling again, and the questions of polycrisis, questions of planetary boundaries, the question of healing across race and gender and caste and class — these are all alive in your mind.

The transcript of this practice can be found here.

Kritee (dharma name Kanko) is a Climate Scientist, Zen Buddhist priest, Educator & Founding Spiritual Director of Boundless in Motion, a 501(c) nonprofit based in Boulder (Colorado). She served as a leading scientist in the Climate Smart Agriculture program at Environmental Defense Fund for about 12 years. She is also an ordained teacher in the Rinzai Zen lineage of Cold Mountain and a co-founder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. She has served as faculty for courses or retreats at the intersection of Climate justice, Trauma healing and Spirituality for many organizations including Stanford University, World Council of Churches, San Francisco Zen Center, Mind & Life Institute, and Al Gore’s Climate Reality. Her experience is that identifying and releasing our personal and ecological grief in presence of a loving community is necessary to reindigenize our ecosystems in this era of global polycrisis. Her articles, podcasts and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, BBC, Washington Post, Harvard Health, Yale Climate Connections, California Public Radio and Post Carbon Institute (See a few here). For more information, visit her website.

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