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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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In this cornerstone ecodharma offering, Thích Nhất Hạnh calls for closeness with the breathing Earth as guidance in times of fear, loss, and confusion.
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EcoDharma

Moving from a Culture of Death to a Culture of Life

In this provocative essay leading up to the People's Climate March in September, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi insists that technological changes will not be enough. We are called to recognize, confront and dismantle the structural causes of climate change.
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EcoDharma

Foundations for Guiding Understanding and Response

What are the Dharma principles that can motivate and inform our response to ecological crises? In 2013, a group of more than 30 teachers from various Buddhist traditions offered this list.

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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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.

Recent EcoDharma

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Where are our relatives? We share 92 percent of our DNA with mice. 44 percent with fruit flies. Zenshin Florence Caplow opens our eyes to the family beyond just those seated at our holiday dinner table.
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EcoDharma

Buddhism, Ecology and Social Justice

Need a refresher on the untapped and transformative potential of the dharma for our times? Kristin Barker delivers the foundational understanding of One Earth Sangha in this 1:1 interview with Damchö Diana Finnegan.
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A Conversation with Dekila Chungyalpa

What might be ecodharma’s unique and essential contribution to the environmental movement? Dekila Chungyalpa braids her Buddhist, Indigenous, and scientific traditions in this timely interview with the Dharmadatta community.

Practices

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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.
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Practice
Acknowledging all that binds you and a tree together within a shared biosphere, see what emerges as you hold an intention to simply be in the presence of a tree.
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Practice
What happens when we recognize that the very substances and processes of this being human reflect our grand belonging to this world?

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

Creative Offerings

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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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Creative
“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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Creative
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.
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Creative
In honour of Earth Day 2024, we share this exquisite poem reminding us that we utterly belong to this world, its beauty and its losses.