Caring Practice
Caring for the earth and all beings, human and non-human, is caring for ourselves. In this stream, we explore the various forms of practice that embody that care:
- Earth Meditations
Practices for individuals to undertake on their own or in sangha to cultivate connections to the earth, our larger body. - Living Green
Inspiration, strategies and resources for reducing our carbon emissions and waste as well as other ways of contributing to a healthy planet. - Wise Speech & Action
Opportunities for speaking and acting with others on how we can respond to the reality of climate change with wisdom and compassion.
From the Roof of the World
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has issued a call for global action on climate “for the health and sustainability of the entire world.”
Go DeeperI am the Tar Sands
Can we face the truth of the way human beings are altering the Earth without making enemies? Nomi Green invites us to viscerally experience the perspectives of the many beings connected to the tar sands in northern Alberta, Canada.
Go DeeperThe EcoSattva Training – A Collaborative Enterprise
The EcoSattva Training has come into being in response to and collaboration with your our Sangha. We are sharing here the structure that has emerged from your reflection and feedback. This is your training so let us know what you think of our plan.
Go DeeperTime to Stand Up: New Sangha Events Directory
If there was a moment to get involved, this is it. Taking a cue from Vipassana teacher and activist Thanissara’s new book, we are announcing a new capability to join or add events that develop and demonstrate our interdependence with all of life!
Go DeeperAnswering the Call
Come, let’s face this together. Join One Earth Sangha, the amazing Joanna Macy, rev angel Kyodo williams and a powerful collection of other leaders for our online, interactive EcoSattva Training. This is our crisis and our opportunity for transformation.
Go DeeperBiggest Party in Human History
For one hour, use your power to change the world. Climate change is the great teacher of our interdependence, with each other and Earth. Open to this wonder by turning off your lights for one Earth Hour tonight at 8:30 pm, wherever you are.
Go DeeperMetta Practice for Earth and Her Children
Deep in our tradition is the Metta Prayer, the heart-felt wish for well-being. As interfaith traditions come together this Valentine’s Day at noon to pray for the healing of the Earth, Heather Lyn Mann from the Order of Interbeing shares this offering.
Go DeeperFacing Climate Change with Heart
Supporting our hearts: Sister Jewel from the Order of Interbeing offers this meditation as a way to hold the vast complexities inherent in awakening to climate change.
Go DeeperLight for Lima
“Make of yourself a light,” the Buddha advised. On Sunday evening December 7th, spiritual traditions of all kinds will join together in a global candlelight vigil to support a strong outcome at the UN climate change negotiations in Lima, Peru. Can you add your light?
Go DeeperSitting in Protest of ‘Gross Negligence’
Joining with other spiritual traditions and artists, the Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (DANCE) organized a protest against “Gross Negligence” on the part of British Petroleum. This is how we can “multiply our courage.”
Go DeeperInspiration from the People’s Climate March
Sights and sounds from the global People’s Climate March on Sunday, 21 September, 2014
Go DeeperA Call to Restore the Sacred Balance
Members of One Earth Sangha joined events in New York City and around the world for the People’s Climate March. Buddhist teacher and climate activist, Thanissara, gives her first hand account of this moment of global compassion in action.
Go DeeperSkillful Disruption
We make our future, minute by minute. Here is what you can do right now: in NYC and around the world, join the People’s Climate March.
Go DeeperEarth Care Week, 2014
Join Dharma teachers and practitioners the world over in observing the second annual Earth Care Week, October 5–12. Let’s come together to celebrate love for the Earth and engage in wise action on her behalf.
Go DeeperThis Is the Time
Brother Protection (Thay Phap Ho), a monk in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition, urges all of us to reach out to our fellow sangha members and encourage them to join in on The People’s Climate March, Sept 21 for this global moment of consciousness.
Go DeeperA Path of Wise Action
With the People’s Climate March just three weeks away, Dharma teacher Thanissara suggests that the Buddhist perspective has much to contribute to this activist moment.
Go DeeperA Paradigm of Integrity
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.
Go DeeperIn Love with the Earth
When we realize the Earth is not merely the “environment,” we are moved to care for the Earth as we would ourselves. In his tender, “Love Letter to the Earth,” Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh implores us all to love and protect the great mother of all beings.
Go DeeperThe People’s Climate March
Our community is invited to put Dharma into action. We have an opportunity to act, to make a difference, to lend our moral voice to this vital movement. Join us this September in New York City, online, or at local events near you.
Go DeeperEmotional Resilience in a Warming World
In many ways, our practice is preparation for intensity. Impending climate change can therefore be seen as an individual, communal and global call to practice. Our friends at Melbourne Insight Meditation are exploring how the path of awakening can help us stay present and true to our nature.
Go DeeperAccessing Natural Wisdom: The Work that Reconnects
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.
Go DeeperShifting to “Years of Living Mindfully”
What does the beginning of a collective response to climate change look like? Might we engage our friends, neighbors, coworkers and fellow practitioners on how we can love and protect global life?
Go DeeperResponding with Wisdom: Feedback on 16 Core Principles
What are the Dharma principles that can motivate and inform our response to climate change? A group of more than 30 teachers from various Buddhist traditions offer this list and now they want your feedback.
Go DeeperHolding Space: Reflecting on the First Earth Care Week
With the first annual Earth Care Week concluding, we invite you reflect with us on your experiences, insights and ideas. Let’s explore what it means to express a Buddhist response to climate change.
Go DeeperYou Can’t Stop the Spring
In this special Earth Care Week message, Jack Kornfield invites all of us into a change of consciousness, one that recognizes our interdependence with all of life.
Go DeeperComing Together for Earth Care Week
Many sanghas are gathering to share teachings, raise funds and awareness during the first annual Earth Care Week. We’re exploring as a community the threat of climate change as ground for our awakening.
Go DeeperLetter to President Barack Obama
We have an opportunity to join a growing number of Buddhist leaders and the Buddhist community in urging U.S. President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
Go DeeperAnnouncing Earth Care Week
Wise action in the face of climate change can be an important and satisfying part of our practice. We invite you to join us in Earth Care Week, an annual expression of brave presence with the natural world in this time of great change.
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