Eco Buddhism Project

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh believes that putting an economic value on nature is not enough. Fundamental change can happen only if we fall back in love with our planet.

In the real world we do not get to avoid the final episode. It's time to break out of our unsustainable zero-empathy matrix. To be or not to be is now the pressing spiritual question before us.

It is increasingly obvious that natural limitations will soon force economic growth to cease. Buddhist teachings emphasize that this does not require a reduction in the quality of life.

New types of bodhisattvas -- "ecosattvas" -- are needed, who combine the practice of self-transformation with devotion to social and ecological transformation.

As climate chaos disasters unfold, we might witness a sustained rise in collective compassion, leading to genuine international cooperation and unity of the human species. But there's also our shadow.

The sense of a self that is separate from the rest of the world is an illusion -- indeed, it is our most problematic delusion. The world is not a collection of objects: it is a communion of subjects.

As weather-related disasters increase every year and the world begins to burn, the very fate of our species is being treated as a mere "externality" by free market ideology.