Online: Introduction to The Burning House
12th May 2022 - 9th Jun 2022
12, 19, 26 May; (skip 2 June for UK Bank Holiday); 9 June, 2022. Sessions (2 hrs 15 mins, with break): USA PST 11:00 | México 13:00 | USA EST 14:00 | IE & UK 19:00 | Europe CET 20:00 | India: 23:30 | Australia AEDT 04.00 (next day) | New Zealand NZDT 06.00 (next day)
Offered in the spirit of Gift Culture: see website for details.
Led by: Gesine Schrader | Contact Gesine
About the course
How can we wake up and respond to the climate and ecological emergency?
This two-part course follows Shantigarbha’s recently published book, The Burning House: A Buddhist Response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency and explores the most pressing question of our times.
Buddhists give great importance to mindfulness, wisdom, compassion and interconnectedness, qualities that often make them deeply concerned about the environment and climate change. So what does Buddhism have to say about the climate emergency? How can we see it for what it really is, a crisis of empathy?
This is a course for Dharmafarers concerned about the climate, and eco-activists wishing to ground their work in a spiritual context. We’ll offer:
- Support to process your responses to the climate and ecological emergency in a safe environment.
- Support in making the the climate and ecological emergency part of your Dharma practice. How do you decide to get involved?
- Support for eco-activists to avoid burnout: training in nonviolence, love and wisdom.
What to expect from Part 1
The course follows the Buddhist path from self-development to social change, inspired by the profound principle of nonviolence, or love. In Part 1 the topics are as follows:
● Week one: Crisis? What crisis?
● Week two: Touching the Earth
● Week three: Environmental ethics and compassion
● Week four: The Five Precepts