In celebration of Earth Month, we invite you to explore a few of our past issues focused on our planet, as well as some of the many articles in our archive on our practice with Mother Earth:
Issue 92, Can Mother Earth count on us?
In this issue we give homage to Thầy’s vision of deep ecology, as we share our experience with climate change.
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In celebration of Earth Month, we invite you to explore a few of our past issues focused on our planet, as well as some of the many articles in our archive on our practice with Mother Earth:
Issue 92, Can Mother Earth count on us?
In this issue we give homage to Thầy’s vision of deep ecology, as we share our experience with climate change.
- in “A Love Letter to the Planet” Thích Nhất Hạnh shares intimate conversations with Mother Earth
- Brother Pháp Lưu offers a continuation of the Earth Peace Treaty—a new series of earth-touchings and an updated commitment sheet
- Dharma teacher Jem offers insights from his deep Earth holding practice, surviving cancer, and disrobing after eighteen years as a monk
- a Dharma talk by Brother Pháp Dung from the Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet online course
- practitioners share about living gently on the Earth and connecting with nature
- sharings from Happy Farm, Wake Up, Wake Up Schools, and the Earth Holder Community
- poetry, a recipe from the monasteries, and much more.
We hope the visions shared in this issue will encourage each of us to engage with our world and each other mindfully and lovingly.
Issue 67, Insights into climate change
Guest edited by Sister Jewel and Brother Phap Ho, this issue focuses on ways we can intelligently, compassionately, and joyfully reduce the Earth’s suffering:
- The Burning Pit of Climate Change
- Earth Holding and Protecting Practices at Deer Park and Beyond
- Falling in Love with the Earth
- Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Dharma talk: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth.
Issue 63, I entrust myself to Mother Earth
A few featured articles:
- Thích Nhất Hạnh generously gives us a guide for the radical surrender and gentle openness of the mutual trust of Earth and us and tools to help us realize and honor our interdependence with the Earth
- a ceremony for opening ourselves to the beauty, suffering, and capacity for healing in the Earth (our body)
- the Earth Peace Treaty gives us a chance to commit to steps that will lighten our ecological footprint
- A Love Letter to the 1% by Chân Pháp Hộ
- Harvesting on the Happy Farm
Issue 28, Mindful consumption
In this issue:
- Thích Nhất Hạnh teaches us about mindfulness as protection
- gathas for eating mindfully
- Dharma teacher Jack Lawlor invites us to look at the habit energies present in our daily consumption
- Peggy Rowe and Tracy Sarriugarte offer practices that cultivate consumption of nourishing and healing nutriments
Issue 7, Taking care of the environment
This issue offers a Buddhist approach to environmental issues:
- Thích Nhất Hạnh’s teachings on the environment and interbeing
- Dharma teacher Wendy Johnson on the 20th anniversary of Earth Day
- the 1991 environmentalists’ retreat
- a rainforest journey
- saving the world without burning out
A few more selections from our archive:
- Our Environment: Touching the Gift of Life, a Dharma talk by Thích Nhất Hạnh
- Mindful Consumption, a Dharma talk by Thích Nhất Hạnh
- Engaging Together for Change by Brother Pháp Dung
- Rewilding by Happy Farm’s Mick McEvoy
