May 18: Buddhists Declare Climate Emergency Actions
Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:00 – 5:30 PM Pacific time –
** Wesak Awakening: Buddhists Declaring Climate Emergency Together** No charge,
registration required because of limited space. Location: The Episcopal Church
of St. John the Evangelist, 1661 15th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
We invite you to take action for the world we love. Come together on Wesak (the
anniversary of Buddha’s awakening) to bear witness together to our climate
emergency. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wesak-awakening-buddhists-decl…
Guided by beloved teachers Thanissara and
Kittisaro, we’ll join in ceremony, collectively naming and acknowledging our
harrowing climate situation. We’ll also be supported by a diverse array of
speakers (including Anne Symens-Bucher on behalf of Joanna Macy), interactive
heart-based exercises, movement to help us ground, live music with The
Invisible Bee and others, and the opportunity to speak and listen to each
other’s intentions for responding, individually and collectively, in these
times.
We’ll end the event with a plant-based meal shared
in community, and leave with the strength and inspiration to continue this
vital conversation within our families, sanghas and beyond. We hope you’ll join
us for this afternoon of contemplation, sharing, connection, engagement and
truth!
Note: This event is free. Space is limited. Please register to assure your spot. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wesak-awakening-buddhists-decl…
May 18, 2019: Awakening to Climate Emergency:
Join the Live Webinar! 9:00am Pacific time
In connection with the Call to Declare Climate Emergency Now and timed with the
annual observance of the Buddha’s Awakening to reality, we invite you to join
us with your local Sanghas and communities for a live webinar to Declare
Climate Emergency at all levels. We will come together to commit the process of
declaring a climate emergency together. We’ll be sharing resources, strategies and outcomes as we mobilize
together. Register here: https://oneearthsangha.org/progr…/dcen/webinar-registration/
The live event will begin at Saturday, May 18, 2019 9:00 am PDT and will be recorded. As soon as the recording is available, it will be posted here: https://oneearthsangha.org/progr…/dcen/webinar-registration/
The time is upon us to take to heart the Buddha’s radical awakening and to apply all our practice, skills, and what wisdom and compassion we have to the task at hand, which is protecting Mother Nature and her myriad beings while ensuring a liveable planet for our children, grandchildren and the generations to come.
Mother Nature is calling us to be truth messengers and change agents and to enact a radical, quantum shift of consciousness that mirrors our rapid planetary state shift. Through DCEN we honor this call by naming and embodying the reality that “business as usual” is no longer viable for a sustainable future. In particular, we call on the Dharma, mindfulness, yoga communities, alongside all involved in awakening, healing, and transformational work, whatever affiliation, to join us in this effort. If you don’t feel you fit in these categories, you too are absolutely welcome.
The call from Mother Nature, Grandmother Earth is now extremely urgent. We have almost no time left to act as protectors of life on Earth and to pull together to hold a ground of consciousness, resilience, and wellbeing. We need to move while we can, before we experience a collapse into free fall where conducive spaces to share and organise are replaced by the shock of societies becoming more chaotic and dismembered as our life support systems die.
Let us join together in our heartbreak so we can share and transmute our grief, pain and outrage into a clarity and focus that informs creative, joyful, non-violent action.
I hope to see you there.
— Thanissara, with the DCEN team.
Featured Guests
This live webinar will feature:
Kittisaro & Thanissara –
Sacred Mountain Sangha US / Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat S.Africa.
Kristin Barker – One Earth Sangha
Jozen Gibson – Brooklyn Zen Centre, Awake Youth Project, Insight Meditation
Society.
Noliwe Alexandra – East Bay Meditation Center
Mark Ovland – XR UK Logistics
Charity Kahn – San Francisco Insight
This event will be hosted by One Earth Sangha
And..
If you can’t make these, organize your own event, with your family, community and/ or sangha. Template and sign up here (via 1ES) https://oneearthsangha.org/programs/dcen/share-your-event/
Want to see the source document for a Dharma / spiritually orientated process for declaring, with resources.. go here
