Green Bodhisattva

Step Eight of the Green Bodhisattva Path: Making Amends

Today we have the eighth step of Clark Strand’s Green Bodhisattva series, called Making Amends: “Made a list of all those we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.” The Green Bodhisattva…

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Nov 10, 2011

Green Bodhisattva

The Care of Earth: Week Three of the Green Bodhisattva’s Twelve-Step Recovery Program

This week we are reviewing Step Three of Clark Strand’s “Green Bodhisattva” series, which is now online. In “The Care of Earth,” Strand introduces the third step towards an ecofriendly recovery: “Made a decision to turn…

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Sep 19, 2011

Ideas Green Bodhisattva

The Green Bodhisattva: Trees, Butterflies, and the Buddhist Moral Life

The reality is that in much of industrialized societies, we are completely addicted to comfort. We are a society of addicts. When confronted with this addiction, we react just like addicts with denial, accusations of others,…

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Aug 31, 2011

Green Bodhisattva

Being a Green Bodhisattva, Week 6: Wisdom

Clark Strand, who led a Tricycle Retreat on Green Meditation in March, recently wrote six short pieces on the paramitas (transcendent perfections) from the perspective of a Green Bodhisattva. The first was Generosity. Today’s, the most…

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Jun 10, 2010

Teachings Green Bodhisattva

The Way of the Green Bodhisattva: Patience

Clark Strand discovered—or re-discovered—the practice of Green Meditation during a long bout of sleep trouble he experienced a few years ago. Looking for reasons why he was having such trouble sleeping through the night, he realized…

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May 20, 2010

Teachings Green Bodhisattva

Being a Green Bodhisattva

Clark Strand posted the second of his Green Meditation posts about the paramitas, or “transcendent perfections.” He began with a piece on Generosity, the first Paramita. This week’s piece is on the second, Moral Discipline. In…

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May 14, 2010