One Earth Wisdom

Our Response

As a Virtual EcoDharma Center, our principal offering is the wisdom teachings and practices that support turning towards the reality of our situation and cultivating appropriate response. Guided by a teaching council representing several Buddhist traditions, we offer core programs such as the EcoSattva Training as well as EcoDharma articles curated from around the web by our editorial team.

Our offerings regularly integrate an understanding of how other social movements including racial and economic justice inform, support and compliment ecological concerns. Through a steady flow of insights, reflections, practices and fresh perspectives, we support our membership in developing a stable, rational and compassionate response to our collective challenges.

We invite you to explore and take part in our EcoDharma offerings, highlighted below.

To learn more about our response to this ever-changing and enormous challenge, see About Us.

We can meet our eco-anxiety and soothe the suffering we find there. Yet we need not be ruled by fear.

Cornerstone EcoDharma

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EcoDharma

A Cosmic Nudge to Reimagine Ourselves

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.
EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Discovering Our Collective Place in the World

"We cannot return to nature because we have never left it. " In this article, Buddhist scholar and Zen teacher David Loy explores the parallels in our individual and collective predicaments and the parallel paths that might heal.
EcoDharma
EcoDharma
Beyond hope and hopelessness, how is the world calling us to emerge?

Updated for 2024/2025

The EcoSattva Training

Join us in a Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and Compassionate Action

At Home with the Trouble, Together
“For anyone who’s yearning for a way to meet the often agonizing challenges of this time with a clear mind, a steady heart, a resilient body and a ferocious spirit, One Earth Sangha’s EcoSattva Training is a beautifully-designed and meticulously-crafted container.”

Featured EcoDharma

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EcoDharma

Each of Us, an Animal Held Within the Vast Web of Life

If the Buddha were alive today, he would categorize human-centered perception as a vipallāsa, distortion of perception. What does it look like to see through and beyond this perception?

Recent EcoDharma

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EcoDharma

Animism and Buddhism in Dialogue

What if the forest was never just scenery but full of others who sense you the moment you enter? Without words, can we hear what’s being said? What might it mean to let that possibility guide your next encounter with the countless beings that surround us?
EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Meeting the Reality of the Climate

What do you do when you’re in love with a burning world? Here Mark Coleman offers seven R's for meeting the ecological crisis without going numb and without burning out. Can we move from falling in love with the Earth, to feeling what we're losing, to finding others who can stand with us in the fire.
EcoDharma
EcoDharma

Joanna Macy on the Best Time To Be Alive

Dominant culture has no map for the territory we are entering. Yet what if the grief we carry for profound ecological loss is not a burden to manage, but a doorway? What if the very intensity of your sorrow is proof of how deeply you belong to this Earth, and how much love is still moving through you?

Practices

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Practice

Meditation with the Earth, for the Earth, as the Earth

Catherine McGee, a guiding teacher with One Earth Sangha, offers five short exercises for supporting our relationship with the Earth.
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Practice
Our bodies are built to be in conversation with our ecosystem, responding to the world around us via internal clocks. When we attune to the pulses within and around us, time can become an experience of kinship.
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Practice

A Guided Meditation with Diana Winston

How do we find our collective path forward? Perhaps we begin with an exploration through the untamed imagination.
Practice
Practice
On this, the shortest day of the year, we offer this contemplation on the dark.

Rather than merely giving up something we want, renunciation chooses what is more valuable.

Creative Offerings

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Creative
There are those among us have already learned to hold devastation and tenderness in the same breath, who have fallen into the dark and found something worth bringing back. Have you found a way to move amidst the charred and submerged? Will you show us how?
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Creative
This world is signaling to us constantly, both inviting us out of complacency and, in the same moment, offering endless gifts.
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Creative
What does life ask from us? How might we inhabit it more fully?
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Creative
Perhaps the question isn’t, are we alone? But rather, who are we alone with?