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Compassionate action

"What value is all this meditation and mindfulness if we just sit by and let the world burn?" -Thanissara

Many of our sangha feel there is a seamless continuity between inner development and outward engagement with the world. Insight meditation and other dharma practices are seen as enabling a more skillful response to the social and environmental challenges of our time. This page offers a list of organisations that inspire a more insightful and compassionate engagement as well as some upcoming events.

Organisations

SanghaSeva

We wish to offer retreats and events that participate in humanitarian and ecological projects in ways that support deep and meaningful lives.

By combining the inner activity of meditation with the outward movement of inter-action the ‘retreats’ you will find listed on this website promote harmony and wellbeing for all beings of the world, including ourselves.

SanghaSeva offers “Meditation in Action” retreats in India, Europe and Israel-Palestine.

One Earth Sangha

One Earth Sangha’s mission is to bring the essential wisdom and practices from the Buddhist tradition to collective engagement on climate change and other threats to our home. For more information about One Earth Sangha and upcoming events for 2020 visit One Earth Sangha

Ecodharma

The Eco-Dharma Centre is situated in a beautiful and wild part of the Catalan Pyrenees. They offer courses, events and retreats which support the realisation of human potential and the development of an ecological consciousness honouring our mutual belonging within the web of life – drawing on the Buddhist Dharma.

Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (DANCE)

Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (DANCE) is a space for connecting to explore the breadth of possible Dharma responses to climate change and related issues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Update from Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (DANCE)

The Buddhist Peace Fellowship

The Buddhist Peace Fellowship aspires to cultivate the conditions for peace, social justice, and environmental sustainability within our selves, our communities, and the world.

Extinction Rebellion Buddhists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XR Buddhists at the International Rebellion

Are you interested in bringing your Dharma practice into action around the Climate and Ecological Emergency? Or an activist who would like to explore meditation and Dharma practices as a resource? Extinction Rebellion Buddhists would love to hear from you. An invitation to their group is here. To find out more, their website is xrbuddhists.com

 

Upcoming events

 

Earthcare Tree Planting Retreat
17th-23rd January 2022
 
‘Meditation in Action’ warmly invite you to come together in community for our January Earthcare / tree planting retreat with Zohar Lavie and Nathan Glyde. The retreat will provide an opportunity to touch the earth and lay down roots of peace and restoration; a time for supporting inner and outer growth in and for nature; a chance to aid greater diversity, range, and plenitude for the wild places of the planet.
The aim of this retreat is to gather in community around Moor Trees’ mission to restore native woodland. Then while we work in the land, we will deepen our connection to ourselves and to nature.
The retreat will be held in the beauty of Eden Rise, near Totnes, Devon – with days spent at Moor Tree’s nurseries and tree planting near Dartmoor; along with space and time for meditation and community.
Facebook event page – https://fb.me/e/4J6uXW2ry
For more info and to register please visit – https://www.sanghaseva.org/comingup.html#ec
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