Energize your 2025 intentions with Joanna Macy’s apt retelling of this 1,200 year old Tibetan Buddhist prophecy: Sentient life hangs by a thread, and so the spiritual warriors make their way into the pits and citadels where decisions are made, right into the heart of the barbarian’s power.
Earth is as beautiful as she is troubled, as perfect as she is pained. Joanna Macy appeals to the courageous self in all of us that desires to widely awaken to Earth just as she is and act from this seeing: we are inseparable.
The wider culture would have us believe that we must choose hope, even if by force, as the only alternative to despair. Is that so? What poignant possibilities lie in the uncertain space between?
In this wide-ranging conversation, Joanna and David bring forward the misunderstood, under-emphasized, and omitted gifts of the Buddha's teachings for today's troubled world.
The natural and social systems that sustain us are losing their stability, observes Joanna Macy. This state of bardo, or transition, can be painful and frightening—but if we face the reality of collapse and cultivate inner stability, we can find the courage to faithfully serve all that we love.
One of our treasured teachers and elders, Joanna Macy, guides us in considering how cultivation of resilience, relinquishment, restoration, and reconciliation can help us find a way through the civilizational collapse we see all around us.
How can we uncover and sustain our own power to respond to a challenge as ominous as global climate change? In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, we offer an introduction to the skillful means of Buddhist scholar and renowned activist, Joanna Macy and the Work that Reconnects.
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