Earth Dharma
In Buddhist philosophy, “Dharma” refers to “the way things are,” the laws of nature and also refers to the collection of Buddhist teachings. Our “Earth Dharma” collection will offer Buddhist teachings on our fundamental relationship to the earth and each other, the Dharma of climate change and new ways to tell our own, collective story.
Verses for Environmental Practice
In a pure blessing of practice, contemplation and science, the late Zen teacher Robert Aitken offers these daily practices to inform a deeply grounded being. Happy Earth Day.
Go DeeperLifting the Moral Voice for Climate Action
We invite you to join and share the call to governments from faith communities around the world for a decisive, wise and compassionate response.
Go DeeperContemplative Environmental Practice: Retreat for Academicians and Activists
One of the emerging voices in EcoDharm, Kritee Kanko, wants you to join her this summer in the high dessert for contemplation practice and an exploration of appropriate response.
Go DeeperAwakening to Our Nature, in Nature
What can an immersion in the wild reveal? David Loy and Johann Robbins offer their perspective on a powerful avenue for investigating the nature of mind.
Go DeeperSecular Activism and the Sacred: a Common Ground
Kritee (Kanko) and Lou Leonard explore what it means to be climate activist in secular civil society while walking the Buddhist wisdom path
Go DeeperA Crisis for Buddhism?
Watch or listen to our online webinar featuring David Loy on the challenge that the contemporary ecological crises present to Buddhism.
Go DeeperPracticing Appreciation
A historic agreement on climate has been signed. What does it mean for our practice?
Go DeeperClimate Change as a Moral Call to Social Transformation
In advance of the UN climate negotiations, the renowned Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi argues that climate change demands of us a re-imagining of social systems and a new paradigm of the good life.
Go DeeperSacred Activism – Basic Goodness in Action
According to Shambhala tradition “windhorse” is the self-existing energy of basic goodness in action. Acharya Marty Janowitz’s final article in this three-part series explores the practice and benefits of “raising windhorse,” the Path of engagement.
Go DeeperFreedom, Groundlessness, and Meditation in Action
Marty Janowitz continues his exploration of the Dharma of climate change. He suggests that we cannot substantively work to alter the societal paradigm if we are not simultaneously altering our own internal paradigm.
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