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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 series takes us through the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as related to our planet’s current ecological crisis. Clark […]
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 our will and our lives over to the care of the Earth as we understood Earth.” The original Alcoholics […]
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, and often times clinging even more to our addictive behaviors. -Julia Butterfly Hill In our current issue, Clark Strand […]
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 recent, is Wisdom. He begins today’s teaching with a puzzle: The Prajnaparamita Sutras are the foundation of Mahayana Buddhism. […]
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 something much deeper and more important: Our relationship to the dark, and to nature itself, is completely out of […]
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 April Clark led a 4-week Tricycle Retreat on Green Meditation, which was itself a follow-up to his groundbreaking article, […]
Week 1: Generosity