Personal Reflections Environment
How Buddhist Practice Helped Create My First Garden
Getting my hands dirty provided a new type of refuge.
Gardening
The Boundless Field of Ecological Chaplaincy
In training Buddhist chaplains, one instructor turns toward the earth for a lesson on how to serve all living things as they blossom or decay.
Forest Thicket Practice
How mindfully planting and caring for an apple orchard can cultivate literal and figurative fruit.
Spiral of Gratitude
A Buddhist practitioner summons gratitude on the eve of a Native American harvest tradition.
The Whole Earth is Medicine
Longtime columnist Wendy Johnson reflects on the meanings (and uses) of sage.
Why a Buddhist Yoga Teacher Heard the Call to Save 135 Rabbits
How Wendy Cook, who had never considered herself an animal activist, coordinated the “Great Rabbit Liberation of 2016.”
Wild Mustard and the Way of Zen
Our resident gardener renews her gratitude to a pioneering woman of Buddhism
Ecology of the Heart
We have a simple wooden Buddha figure on our home altar. During a surfing holiday in Bali, our son Jesse purchased this Buddha from a seaside craftsman. Jesse asked forgiveness of the Buddha before wrapping him…
The Noble Eightfold Path of Organic Gardening
Columnist Wendy Johnson uses a garden as a teaching tool to illustrate the eightfold path.
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