One Earth Wisdom

Opening to Difficulty

Seeing what is, the reality of our situation, is the beginning of wisdom.

A Primer on Ecological Crises

Lou Leonard and Kritee Kanko discuss the causes and potential policy responses to the climate crisis.

Our Response

As a Virtual EcoDharma Center, our principal offering is the wisdom teachings and practices that support turning towards the reality of our situation and cultivating appropriate response. Guided by a teaching council representing several Buddhist traditions, we offer core programs such as the EcoSattva Training as well as EcoDharma articles curated from around the web by our editorial team.

Our offerings regularly integrate an understanding of how other social movements including racial and economic justice inform, support and compliment ecological concerns. Through a steady flow of insights, reflections, practices and fresh perspectives, we support our membership in developing a stable, rational and compassionate response to our collective challenges.

We invite you to explore and take part in our EcoDharma offerings, highlighted below.

We can meet our eco-anxiety and soothe the suffering we find there. Yet we need not be ruled by fear.

Updated for 2023/2024

The EcoSattva Training

Join us in a Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and Compassionate Action

“For anyone who’s yearning for a way to meet the often agonizing challenges of this time with a clear mind, a steady heart, a resilient body and a ferocious spirit, One Earth Sangha’s EcoSattva Training is a beautifully-designed and meticulously-crafted container.”

Registration is now open for groups and individuals.

Upcoming EcoDharma Explorations

Join Us Live the Fourth Sunday of the Month

Upcoming

Luminous Darkness

The Dynamic Balance of Yin and Yang, Emptiness and Action, Rest and Engagement, on the Path of Change-Making

April 28
Deborah Eden Tull

What strength might we discover when we connect to often-overlooked virtues such as stillness, rest, and receptivity? On April 28, Deborah Eden Tull leads this investigation into the sacred balance of light and dark within Nature and our own minds.

Deborah Eden Tull

Upcoming

The Ecological Self

May 26
John Seed and Br. Tenzin (Dr. Alex Anderson)

How might we nourish the ecological self and support its maturation? On May 26, join John Seed and Br. Tenzin (Dr. Alex Anderson) to explore the interwoven teachings and practices of Deep Ecology and Buddhadharma.

John Seed and Br. Tenzin (Dr. Alex Anderson)

Upcoming

The “Bad Guys”

On Right Relations with Deniers, Delayers, and Destroyers

June 23
Kevin Gallagher

How might we relate to the "bad guys" as advocates and activists attempting to reduce suffering in the world at large? On June 23, Kevin Gallagher leads this exploration on how we might relate on behalf of both people and planet, to those who cause harm.

Kevin Gallagher

Featured EcoDharma

EcoDharma

Skillful Conversations

Talking About our Earth and Ecological Crises

Katie Benvenuti
April 15, 2024

One week before Earth Day, we share this article from our archives in hopes of helping you with what can be difficult conversations.

Katie Benvenuti

Recent EcoDharma

EcoDharma

Urgency and the Call to Rest

Embodying the Values that We Profess

Britt Wray
April 7, 2024

A young activist confronts the contradictions faced by a generation trying to save itself.

Britt Wray

EcoDharma

The Sacred Work of Listening, Loving, and Responding

Eco-Chaplaincy as Compassion in Action

Kirsten Rudestam
April 1, 2024

How might we offer spiritual nourishment to one another as we encounter the eco-social crises of our time? In this talk, Kirsten Rudestam describes the art and practice chaplaincy to our community.

Kirsten Rudestam

EcoDharma

The Elephant in the Dharma Hall

What is the place of politics on The Path?

John Peacock
March 18, 2024

John Peacock asks us to courageously question all that we are leaving out when we constrain the scope of the Dharma to be merely the personal.

John Peacock

Featured EcoDharma Topics

Cornerstone EcoDharma

Practice

Befriending Eco-Anxiety (Part Two: Practices)

Kaira Jewel Lingo
May 4, 2020

Kaira Jewel Lingo offers a set of practices to help us cultivate individual calm and support community connection, and encourages us not to give up on our collective capacity to effect social change.

Kaira Jewel Lingo

EcoDharma

Dharma Teaching and Dharma Values in the Age of Climate Change

An Open Letter from Rob Burbea

Rob Burbea
May 7, 2023

On the third anniversary of his death in May of 2020, we share this letter from Rob Burbea challenging dharma leaders to embrace the full implications of its ethical demands.

Rob Burbea

EcoDharma

Wise Urgency

Bhikkhu Bodhi
October 8, 2014

Fear over climate disruption often spurs denial and ends in panic or mental paralysis. Yet it may equally well give rise to samvega, a sense of urgency leading to wise action. In this essay, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi argues that everything depends on how we metabolize our fear.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

Practices

Practice

Loving the Earth

Mark Coleman
March 25, 2024

For the cultivation of our own responsivity, Mark takes us on a guided journey outward into rich ecosystems and inward to the natural reverberations of our hearts.

Mark Coleman

Practice

Befriending

Lama Willa Blythe Baker
February 12, 2024

How might our experience of eco-distress shift if we could offer it the hand of friendship? We share this practice, led by Lama Willa Blythe Baker, from our latest EcoSattva Training.

Lama Willa Blythe Baker

Practice

To What Am I Committed?

Damchö Diana Finnegan
January 17, 2024

In this practice, Damchö invites us to feel into our connection and devotion to Earth.

Damchö Diana Finnegan

Practice

On the Other Side of Anger Is …

Dekila Chungyalpa
December 21, 2023

When we look deeply into anger, what wisdom might we discover? Dekila Chungyalpa leads this practice of developing intimacy with one of our most difficult emotions.

Dekila Chungyalpa

Rather than merely giving up something we want, renunciation chooses what is more valuable.

Creative Offerings

Creative

May Morning

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
April 22, 2024

In honour of Earth Day 2024, we share this exquisite poem reminding us that we utterly belong to this world, its beauty and its losses.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Creative

What It All Comes Down To

Carolyn Chilton Casas
March 4, 2024

Amidst eco/social crises, and for this ever widening sense of self, Carolyn Chilton Casas invites us to both stay connected and let go.

Carolyn Chilton Casas

Creative

Coming Together

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
November 27, 2023

For everyone who aches for peace, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer shares this poem.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Creative

The News

Emilie Lygren
September 7, 2023

This poem by Emilie Lygren invites us to relax our vigilance—just for a moment.

Emilie Lygren

No Mud, No Lotus

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Opening to Difficulty

A Primer on Ecological Crises

Our Response

We can meet our eco-anxiety and soothe the suffering we find there. Yet we need not be ruled by fear.

Updated for 2023/2024

The EcoSattva Training

Join us in a Course to Cultivate Wisdom, Connection, and Compassionate Action

Upcoming EcoDharma Explorations

Join Us Live the Fourth Sunday of the Month

Featured EcoDharma

Recent EcoDharma

Featured EcoDharma Topics

Cornerstone EcoDharma

Practices

Rather than merely giving up something we want, renunciation chooses what is more valuable.

Creative Offerings

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No Mud, No Lotus