Dharma Talks / What Buddhist Psychology can Offer the Climate Crisis

0:05: 🧘 The importance of coming home to the body, recognizing emotions, and using our breathing to relax all the cells in our body.
5:35: 🧠 Understanding how seeds of emotions manifest in consciousness through sensory input.
13:00: 🌱 Nurturing joy and empathy through simple acts of kindness and compassion, and learning to pay attention to the positive elements in the present moment.
19:49: ⚖️ Embracing and taking care of anger through selective watering and mindful consumption to regain sovereignty over our body and mind – over our life.
26:35: 💭 The insight of inter-being: with deeper understanding we can move from judging to wise acceptance
32:47: ⚖️ Harnessing insight and understanding to address current global challenges with calmness and clarity.
40:18: 💡 Understanding the concept of survival instict (self-appropriation, manas) in Buddhist psychology.
54:36: 🧘 Mindful service meditation encourages recognizing and transforming habits in daily tasks – the way we scrub that pot IS the way we deal with other things in our life.

As we are well aware, the pressure of achieving profound and urgent change is leading to increased anxiety and polarization in societies as well as within the climate movement. It is paradoxical, but critical, that at a time of great stress, we intentionally create the space to listen deeply to each other, reflect calmly, and renew our spirit of engagement and collaboration.

We invite you to enjoy a series of talks from the monastics of the monastery in France. Each week, we will learn new tools for personal and planetary resilience and mindfulness so we can act out of our best and most effective selves in the face of the climate challenge.

Led by the Plum Village monastics, we will cultivate an individual and collective understanding of how to deal with our deep emotions and how to call forth our most transformational capacities. Through applied mindfulness, workshops, and the radical insights of Zen, we will discover how to strengthen our clarity, compassion, and courage to act together.

This is the third talk of this retreat.