Ecodharma: a new Buddhist Path?

by David Loy, visiting teacher
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Does Buddhism offer any special perspective on the ecological crisis?

The climate emergency is not something the Buddha talked about, but his teachings have important implications for how to understand and respond to the greatest challenge that humanity has ever faced.
There are profound parallels between our usual individual predicament, according to Buddhism, and the present situation of human civilization. This suggests that the eco-crisis is as much a spiritual challenge as a technological and economic one.
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Does this mean that there is also a parallel between the two solutions?
Does the Buddhist response to our personal predicament also point the way to resolving our collective one?
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Join visiting teacher David Loy for a dharma talk and fundraiser for IPV on
Thursday, November 14, 6:30 - 8:30pm. (6:30 refreshments / 7:00 program)
plus music by Robert A. Jonas playing the shakuhachi
​all are welcome  ~  no registration necessary
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David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism.  His articles appear regularly in the pages of journals such Tricycle, Lion’s Roar, and Buddhadharma, as well as in a variety of scholarly journals. He is on the advisory boards of Buddhist Global Relief, the Clear View Project, Zen Peacemakers, and the Ernest Becker Foundation.

David lectures nationally and internationally on various topics, focusing primarily on the encounter between Buddhism and modernity: what each can learn from the other. He is especially concerned about social and ecological issues. A popular recent lecture is Healing Ecology: A Buddhist Perspective on the Eco-crisis, which argues that there is an important parallel between what Buddhism says about our personal predicament and our collective predicament today in relation to the rest of the biosphere.
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