[EcoDharma] Living Earth

[Tairin]

Wonderful article Kendrick. I agree with what you are saying. My wife and I have been having this same conversation as we are trying to make changes to our household consumption and hoping our seemingly small efforts make a difference.

Thank you for sharing and reminding us that our efforts do matter.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Seibu]

Thank you for this article Kendrick. I love how you emphasize that the action of each individual, no matter how small, helps to change things for the better.

Gassho,
Seibu
Sattoday

[Kyonin]

I totally agree.

Each one of us must do whatever possible to fix the mess we have created. Waiting on companies or politicians won't take us far. This practice is about sitting zazen as much as it is doing the best we can to save all sentient beings... ourselves included.

Gassho,

Kyonin
Sat/LAH

[Kendrick]

Tairin, Seibu, Kyonin.. thank you

Gassho
Kendrick
Sat

[Kokuu]

Great article, Kendrick! Thank you!

I totally agree with the notion of perpetual growth that is baked into our economics. It is clearly unsustainable.

In 2009 an interesting report was published by the Sustainable Development Commission called Prosperity Without Growth which looks at exactly this notion and how we can continue to live well with zero growth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_Without_Growth

So much needs challenging in the way we look at life but you are right that the only person we have direct control over is ourselves, and that is where change needs to begin.

Deep bows
Kokuu
-sattoday/lah-

[Meitou]

Some lovely online initiatives from Emergence Magazine are currently on offer..

https://emergencemagazine.org/community/

Gassho
Meitou
sattoday

[Doshin]

For some of us it will likely be a year or so before we can let down our guard because of this pandemic. What we await is Science to develop a vaccine so we can resume some of what we took for granted. I have set my expectations on that and will use the time to deepen my practice. Time may pass before I can be with family again.

For this thread. which I started over my dismay for the loss of the world’s biodiversity, I hope the teaching many receive from this event is that Science has been what we were looking too/hoping for to once again further our survival. And when that time comes, maybe, just maybe, more will listen to Science when it speaks to the reality that we are changing ecosystems by our greed, ignorance and delusion that we are separate from all. Hopefully more will take action so that our descendants will inherit a world with less despair, a healthy environment and still a place we share with the wonder of other species as we travel through a known and unknown universe on this beautiful rock that is home, That is my hope.

Be safe, be well

Doshin
St

[Onka]

Sing it Comrade Doshin!
My partner and I are expecting 12-18 months before things get back to how they were... Unfortunately.
Unfortunately because like yourself I fear for Mother Earth and ALL of her inhabitants both living and everything else that we dismiss as having little value unless in capitalist terms.
Aside from increased health risk this time will pass easily enough for my partner and myself. I too see it as an opportunity to deepen my practice and connect deeper with my immediate surroundings.
Viva Science!
Gassho
Onka Anna
Sat today/about to potter around outside

[Kotei]

Sing it Comrade Doshin!

On the way to my little 'zendo' this morning... others are singing it, too.

https://soundcloud.com/ralf-prehn-357689516/tschirp

Thank you Doshin.
Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Doshin]

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/sunday-review/the-ecology-of-disease.html?smid=fb-share

The Ecology of Disease

Doshin
St

[Onka]

On the way to my little 'zendo' this morning... others are singing it, too.

https://soundcloud.com/ralf-prehn-357689516/tschirp

Thank you Doshin.
Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

Beautiful.
Gassho
Onka Anna

[Onka]

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/s...?smid=fb-share

The Ecology of Disease

Doshin
St

Thank you Doshin
Gassho
Onka Anna

[Onka]

Another interesting article

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2020/03/11/capitalist-agriculture-and-covid-19-a-deadly-combination/

Gassho
Onka
st

[Tairin]

This video is available on YouTube for free. It is a pretty sobering message.

Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Doshin]

This video is available on YouTube for free. It is a pretty sobering message.

Tairin
Sat today and lah

Yes very sobering Tairin.

As exhibited at the very beginning these issues were anticipated long ago.

I have worked on green energy issues regarding wildlife and long ago reached the conclusion that green isn’t necessarily green.

The paradigm that infinite growth on a finite planet is not sustainable sums it all up.

And the closing quote by Rachel Carlson from so long ago is telling “Humandkind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before to prove its maturity and its mastery-not of nature, but of its self.”

Doshin
St