A Series of Online Conversations Open to Everyone An Initiative of One Earth Sangha, Buddhist Teachers Collaborative for Climate Action, and Conversations That Change The World from Maestro Conference We invite you to join a conversation as we explore the impact of climate change, its underlying causes, and how Dharma practice can inform our personal… Read More Ecosattva: Mindfulness and Climate Action
Without exception and without the need for analytical studies, we can say that we automatically have buddha within us. That heart of the buddha is a very open heart. That heart would like to explore the phenomenal world; it is open to relating with others. That heart contains tremendous strength and confidence in itself, which… Read More We Already Have THE HEART OF THE BUDDHA
Today’s feature article in Tricycle by John Snelling states a truth that I discovered for myself just recently: “At the center of these [issues] lies the popular myth that prefigures enlightenment as an ecstatic experience that at once solves all personal problems and inaugurates an individual millennium of limitless personal “growth.” The rub of course… Read More Enlightenment On Your Own Two Feet
The federal government wants to use a sham review process to pass the Energy East pipeline proposal to pump a million barrels of toxic tar sands bitumen to the Atlantic Ocean. We need to speak out before the review starts. Tell Peter Watson, the new Chair of the National Energy Board: “No climate science? No real… Read More Stop Energy East: Sign the Petition
Peter Coy August 21, 2014 Photograph by Philip Montgomery A woman watches protesters on West Florissant Avenue on Aug. 19 Early this year, before the summer weather in Ferguson, Mo., turned to a fog of tear gas and a hail of rubber bullets, before the downscale suburb began to share national airtime with Sierra Leone… Read More Injustice in Ferguson, Long Before Michael Brown
From the book The Zen of Recovery, by Mel Ash ©1993 If you are here to read this, think of those who aren’t. Pray for them: good thoughts for those who lost their minds, love and years to compulsion, addiction and fears. Think of their great sacrifice. We recover on the bones of others. Wrap your… Read More We Recover on the Bones of Others
Time flies — we’re almost one month away from making history with the People’s Climate Mobilisation across the planet. We are excited to see so many of you getting together to organise and join events in your communities. Events are streaming in on the event map from all around the world – from the Philippines to France,… Read More People’s Climate March Sept. 21
