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Guhyapati

G (Guhyapati) has been working at the intersection of social activism, dharma, and ecological learning for 40 years. In the early 2000’s he founded the Ecodharma Centre where he pioneered training and retreats integrating contemplative practice, activism, and ecology. In 2017 he envisioned and founded the Ulex Project, building that into a collective project that provides training and capacity building support for social movements across Europe. He is known for highly innovative work blending pedagogical methodologies and innovating the approach known as Integral Activist Training. This holistic approach to activist learning has inspired numerous training initiatives across Europe. He currently steers the strategic development of the Ulex Project and its social movement capacity building programme and is devising a year-long Deeper Resources for Action programme, that seeks to harness radical dharma to empower socio-political activism.

The Ecology of Social Movements

Building Capacity for Collective Agency, Impact, and Resilience

How might we find our strategic fit in the movements for justice and collective liberation?
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

There is a Revolution in the Work Itself

An Interview with Guhyapati

If it all arises from causes and conditions, how might we cause and condition the arising of a more liberated people and Earth?
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

A Necessary Antidote

Investigating the Risks of Buddhist Practice

The Dharma changes as it encounters the contexts of different cultures. How do we guard against a Dharma that serves late capitalism? And instead, serve the arising of Dharma that serves collective liberation?
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Time and Action

A Challenge to Social Change Movements

Might the myth of progress be just another hindrance to our aspirations for social and ecological justice? In this short talk, Guhyapati challenges belief core to the modern Western world: maybe it won’t get better.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Consume Less, Share More

Giving Radically

The foundational Buddhist principle of dana, or generosity, poses a profound challenge to our separative, extractive relationship with Earth. What forms of ecological, economic, and social renewal might be possible if we see through the delusion of endless acquisition?
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EcoDharma
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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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

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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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Thriving Like Gorse

The Ulex Project

The new Ulex Project is one of three strands of training offered by the EcoDharma Centre -- training to thrive in, and bring healing to, damaged terrain.
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Equanimity and Denial

One of the most useful contributions Buddhism can offer social action is the quality of equanimity. Yet indifference can masquerade as equanimity, providing a kind of "spiritual bypass" that whisks us away from the difficult encounter. How can we know true equanimity wherein we retain our connection to ourselves and the world?
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EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Beyond Hope and Hopelessness

We face challenges of an unprecedented scale. To meet them we need a training that roots our engagement more deeply than we've known before. In this article, Guhyapati from the EcoDharma Centre clarifies how we can respond with energy and patience to what the mind frames as "do or die” situations.
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