Category: Environment & Climate Change
Christiana Figueres: The Climate Optimist
Doom and gloom won’t help, says climate leader and Buddhist practitioner Christiana Figueres. What we need is a “can-do” mindset of possibility. Andrea Miller reports on Figueres’ five concrete actions we can take right now to decarbonize.
5 Buddhist Practices to Help Tackle Climate Change
Willa Blythe Baker offers five meditations to help accept the truth of climate change, laying the ground for a skillful response.
A Spring Prayer
Shozan Jack Haubner presents a prayer for the chaotic awakening of nature that is spring.
Tree of Wisdom
Oak and maple, palm and pine—trees are our closest neighbors and most patient teachers. Henry Shukman on the common roots of people and trees.
First Do No Harm
When the Buddha attained enlightenment, he touched the earth. If he touched it now, it would cry out in pain.
Buddhists Must Awaken to the Ecological Crisis
Buddhists, says David Loy, have often been slow to open their eyes to the problem of climate change. He examines key teachings to understand why.
Gretel Ehrlich: Struck by Nature
“Cover yourself with the living world. It becomes part of your love life.” Gretel Ehrlich writes about nature with passion and awareness, but twice her love affair with nature turned deadly. Stephen Foehr talks to the author of A Match to the Heart.
Becoming the Mountains and Rivers
When we know something intimately, taught Dogen, it ceases to exist and so do we. John Daido Loori Roshi examines this teaching.
New Ethic for a Small Planet
If this century is to be one of peace and caring, says His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we must develop a new ethic of human values that transcends religion.
The World We Have
Only when we combine our concern for the planet with practice, says Thich Nhat Hanh will we have to tools to make the necessary changes to address the environmental crisis.
Zen’s Radical Conservative: John Daido Loori Roshi
John Daido Loori is an imaginative modernizer yet fierce upholder of the old ways of Zen. John Kain reports from Zen Mountain Monastery.
The Wild Mind of Gary Snyder
For the nineties, the celebrated Beat rebel advocates "wild mind," neighborhood values and watershed politics.