[EcoDharma] A Meditation for Eco-Anxiety and Climate Despair

[Tairin]

https://tricycle.org/article/environmental-despair-meditation/

I don’t think I really need to add a commentary. I think we are all feeling more than a little despair

I may look into this book “A Future We Can Love: How We Can Reverse the Climate Crisis with the Power of Our Hearts and Minds” by Susan Bauer-Wu



Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Doshin]

https://tricycle.org/article/environ...ir-meditation/

I don’t think I really need to add a commentary. I think we are all feeling more than a little despair

I may look into this book “A Future We Can Love: How We Can Reverse the Climate Crisis with the Power of Our Hearts and Minds” by Susan Bauer-Wu



Tairin
Sat today and lah

Thank you

Doshin
St

[Naiko]

Thank you for posting this, Tairin.
Gassho,
Naiko
stlah

[Shinshi]

Gassho, Shinshi

SaT-LaH

[Meian]

Thank you for sharing this. [emoji1374]

. meian. stlh


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[Kokuu]

Thank you, Tairin!

I love that she recommends tonglen for working with the environment.

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

[Tairin]

Thank you, Tairin!

I love that she recommends tonglen for working with the environment.

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

I thought you might like that


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Meian]

A Meditation for Eco-Anxiety and Climate Despair

I had noticed this also - it got me thinking.

Might we be able to update or adapt our Sunday Tonglen practice to this Ecodharma Tonglen? Or maybe alternate weeks? This is something I'd be willing to take on, and maybe expand to have a rotation of people facilitate over time.

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[Jundo]

Thank you, Tairin.

I hope you don't mind, but I added "(EcoDharma") to the title.

Gassho, Jundo

stlah

[Kokuu]

Might we be able to update or adapt our Sunday Tonglen practice to this Ecodharma Tonglen? Or maybe alternate weeks? This is something I'd be willing to take on, and maybe expand to have a rotation of people facilitate over time.

I often suggested to people that they could use the environment, and specific areas such as ocean or rainforest, for their tonglen practice.

You would need to talk to Naiko and Washin about this. Maybe once a month for an eco-tonglen?

In traditional tonglen practice there is a version in which the student works their way through imagining the six realms (god, demigod, human, animal, hungry ghost and hell), doing taking and sending for each one. I developed an eco version which substituted six biomes (mountain, ocean, forest, desert, arctic/alpine and grassland) but it was quite overwhelming!

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

[Meian]

I often suggested to people that they could use the environment, and specific areas such as ocean or rainforest, for their tonglen practice.

You would need to talk to Naiko and Washin about this. Maybe once a month for an eco-tonglen?

In traditional tonglen practice there is a version in which the student works their way through imagining the six realms (god, demigod, human, animal, hungry ghost and hell), doing taking and sending for each one. I developed an eco version which substituted six biomes (mountain, ocean, forest, desert, arctic/alpine and grassland) but it was quite overwhelming!

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

I will ask Washin and Naiko about it, thank you. [emoji1374]

As for the eco-version that you developed, do you still have it? May I see it if you do? Thank you for mentioning Tonglen for the six realms. Until yesterday I was sadly unaware that there are different versions of Tonglen to address different areas of need. (Or if I did, then unfortunately I forgot.)

gassho meian st


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[Tairin]

I think the Tonglen connection is interesting too. I am almost through “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer and I have to admit I feel the pull to some of the Indigenous practices she mentions in the book. I was wondering what, in our practice comes close and thought of Tonglen. I personally have been reciting our Metta chant for the Earth daily for over a year.


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Kokuu]

I adore Braiding Sweetgrass! Chanting metta for the Earth and tonglen seem not disimilar to me.

Meian, I think I wrote up the tonglen six eco realms practice for inclusion in my tonglen material but decided not to post it in the end.

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

[Kokuu]

This is the Eco Tonglen practice , albeit briefly described:

Eco Tonglen Practice

In Tibetan Buddhism there is a formal version of tonglen in which the practice is done for each of the six realms (hell, hungry ghosts, animal, human, demigods and gods) in turn.
As a result of the current ecological and environmental crisis we face, I offer a variation on this, which instead uses different ecosystems of the world as visualisations for tonglen.

This is not intended as an alternative to taking action in this area but may provide support for it, in generating deeper connections with all of the Earth’s biomes.

The stages of the practice in this case are:
1. Tonglen for the arctic and alpine regions and all their sentient beings
2. Tonglen for the rivers, lakes and seas and all their sentient beings
3. Tonglen for the montane regions and all their sentient beings
4. Tonglen for the forests and all their sentient beings
5. Tonglen for the grasslands and savannah and all their sentient beings
6. Tonglen for the desert regions and all their sentient beings

Taking five minutes for each stage of practice gives a thirty minute sit.

This can be ended similarly to the usual formal practice with chanting the Four Bodhisattva Vows.

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

[Shonin Risa Bear]

I came back to Zen as planetary hospice practice. At Bird Haven Zendo we annually recite the Thanksgiving Address, a practice the Haudensaunee gave to the world. https://birdhavenzendo.blogspot.com/...g-address.html

gassho
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