Articles tagged with: ekodo
Ekodo Retreat
Golden Bay, July 2013
A four day retreat to explore compassionate environmental action from a Zen perspective. Meditation, Dharma talks and workshops focusing on the following themes:
– Acting from a place of stillness.
– Turning our heart-minds …
Ekodo: Climate Islands
By Sean Weaver
Palm fronds rustled in the breeze sounding like distant applause. Below, a tense village meeting was unfolding. The lapping of waves signified something different ever since the high tide came and stole the …
Ekodo: The Gift – Part 2
By Sean Weaver
In Part 1 of this story (available here) a young woman journeyed on a quest to understand the underlying causes of unsustainable modern culture, and the underlying solution to a sustainable existence on …
Ekodo: The Gift – Part 1
By Sean Weaver
Giza, Egypt. Sitting on the shiny plastic covered bench seats of a dusty Cairo bus she watched the jumble and chaos of this sprawling city go past amid the endless bleating of car …
Ekodo: Earth Witness
By Sean Weaver
Unfurling like a furry monkey being born tail first, the hairs of the young tree fern frond caught the sunlight as the clouds parted briefly high above the forest canopy. He was walking …
Ekodo: Listen
By Sean Weaver
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Pigeon: What is the most important thing we need in society for the next decade?
Gecko: Discover more intimately what compassion is, and then act more decisively on that discovery.
Pigeon: How do we …
Ekodo: Song Of Ekodo
Because it is a feeling universe where thinking is such a tiny insignificant part of the whole that our celebrations of thinking and theories are like celebrating a grain of sand when if we stood up and looked around
Ekodo: Interest
By Sean Weaver
“But all this talk about sustainable economic activity delivered with clever instruments, designed to reduce emissions at least cost and so on – it is all still based on an ever expanding economy. …
Ekodo: No Higher Purpose
By Sean Weaver
In an interconnected world there are no boundaries – neither in space nor in time. Imagine a fabric that extends in all directions without end and you all of it with a perception …
Ekodo: The Compassion Factory
If one practices compassion often enough, the body learns how to do it. It becomes second nature. It becomes easier. It makes wonderful music of our life.
Ekodo: The Rabbit
We can burn a hole in a piece of paper with a piece of glass. But to do so we have to focus. This century we need to burn a hole in the unsustainable growth economy to let the pressure off the Earth. It is a kind of acupuncture. And like acupuncture, to do this we need to focus on precise pressure points. The body is big. A needle is small.
Ekodo: Development Without Growth
The planet is not growing. And yet the common view is to measure the health of every economy on the rate that it they are growing. If we applied the same logic to people we would conclude that the only healthy people are those under 23.
Ekodo: Good Enough?
When I try to win someone over to my view I am lost. But when I know that my own view is good enough already, then I can articulate it without fear.
Ekodo: An Ecology of Anger (Part 2)
Suffice it to say that I got somewhat angry with the way the media twisted the issue into a simplistic conflict story of science vs dummies.
Ekodo: An Ecology of Anger (Part 1)
Anger is such a powerful force of nature. It is a perfectly appropriate response to witnessing needless suffering and violence – extinction, contamination, exploitation, domination, abuse, manipulation… But I am wisely informed that anger’s use-by date is about 30 seconds.
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#139 – Sean’s Blog
For one moment when I read through this blog today, I was in the midst of a great novel. I was the person in the meeting, being asked to leave. I could feel the anger …
Ekodo: A West Coast Story (Part 1)
I have been fortunate enough to experience first-hand the value of compassionate action, in an often adversarial eco-political setting. Such experiences come from my clumsy efforts but are inspired by those who are far more adept, and remind me that it is worth practicing wholesome ideals, even when we are beginners. Like learning to play a musical instrument – with practice we improve.
Introducing Ekodo – Eko (ecological) do (way).
By Sean Weaver, 23 August, 2010.
This is the first of a series of blogs that Sean Weaver will write about Ekodo.
Eko (ecological) do (way) is the way of the eco-warrior. Ekodo turns environmentalism into a …
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