Climate Café Gathering

Join Karin Meyers for this talk noting striking parallels between ancient Buddhist and contemporary debates about plant intelligence, and how new understandings of plant learning and sociability are contributing to contemporary Eco-Buddhist thinking and practice.

Join us for a session led by Douglas Christie - author of the "The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology", and professor emeritus from Loyola Marymount University. We'll talk with Douglas about where he has landed after decades studying thinkers ranging from ancient mystics to Thoreau to Annie Dillard.

If the Buddha were alive today, she would find a planet depleted of resources, a feverish global warming, and a mass extinction. It's time to admit the waters around us have grown and to face drenching to the bone. Join David Takahashi in an interactive investigation into using the Three Tenets (Not Knowing, Bearing Witness, and Compassionate Action) of the Zen Peacemakers to address environmental old age, sickness, and death through living harmlessly.