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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Beyond hope and hopelessness, how is the world calling us to emerge?
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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.
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An Open Letter from Rob Burbea

On the third anniversary of his death in May of 2020, we share this letter from Rob Burbea challenging dharma leaders to embrace the full implications of its ethical demands.

Updated for 2024/2025

The EcoSattva Training

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

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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.”

Registration for the new season is now open for groups.
Individual registration will open on October 17, 2024.

Featured EcoDharma

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First published 10 years ago, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi distills the climate crisis down to its core, unchanging truths. His words are as wise and relevant now as they were then. What might we learn from a read this time around?

Recent EcoDharma

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What is a mindful society without a critical mass of mindful individuals? Sneha Poddar and Andrew Sheng offer wise and cautionary words to Bhutan as the country begins the development of a ‘Mindfulness City.’
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Until the Great Work is Done

Might Earth be a Buddha? Mushim Ikeda explores the practice of taking refuge in the body of water, soil, and sky.
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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.

Practices

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A Guided Meditation for Grounding

In need of a realignment with Earth and sky? Peggy Ward guides a meditation to soothe the Vagus nerve and reground in our Earth body.
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A Nature Meditation on Calm and Peace

Mark Coleman meditates on peace in the presence of wild things. How is it that the stone and the tree remain still, even in the midst of human pandemonium? You’ll have to practice to find out.
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A Meditation on Giving Back to Earth

How can you be a small gift to life? Dr. Lyla June Johnston guides us into connection with what might be our principal purpose for existence–just in time for the consumption season.
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Feeling in need of an energetic tune-up? Lama Rod Owens guides us through an attunement practice to the four elements within our Earth-based bodies.

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

Creative Offerings

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Of all the planets on which you could experience life, Earth may be the most trying. Poet Carolyn Chilton meditates on how the deep breath may make living here a little easier.
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How do you hold your grief with the Earth? Ten-year-old poet Ivy Wade holds her grief with the flowing river and the howling wind.
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“All it takes... is a photo of earth from space... and I’m stunned again, how much we are in this together.” Breathe in, breathe out, this poem by Rosemerry.
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What are you voting for? Alfred K. LaMotte casts his vote for the cry of a loon, his grandfather’s bones, and the beetles that feed now with a poem that rings as a piercing reminder of the stakes beyond the self.