dharma Archives • Heather Lyn Mann

#Dharma and #ClimateChange: #SpeakOut Now

January 25, 2014 by heatherlynmann

An international group of Dharma teachers are offering a Buddhist perspective on the root causes and conditions of global warming and naming ways suffering can be minimized. Please join me in endorsing this statement. Click here to read their statement and add your name as a Dharma Teacher or Sangha…

#Dharma Talk: the #Paramita of #Ethics

January 11, 2014 by heatherlynmann

Dear Friends, We can create happiness in ourselves and those around us by observing, studying, and practicing the Buddhist teachings on the Paramitas--the six qualities of an enlightened being that transform suffering. In this Dharma Talk, I explore the Parimita of Ethics. Each of us possesses the qualities of transformation,…

Announcing an #EngagedBuddhist Retreat for #EarthHolders

January 8, 2014 by heatherlynmann

Dear Friends, Please come this April to a retreat at Thich Nhat Hanh's Deer Park Monastery in California entitled Earth Holding and Protecting: An Engaged Buddhist Theme Weekend. At the event you will find nourishment, support and strength as you meet brother and sister Earth Holders working to transform planetary…

#WalkingMeditation at a #BuddhistRetreat

January 3, 2014 by heatherlynmann

Last October, at a Buddhist retreat in Southwestern Wisconsin, I led a walking meditation. Here are my words of introduction and closing comments. Of special note, I'd like to acknowledge Geneen Marie Haugen for her beautiful writing in "Imagining Earth,"a chapter published in Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth.…

#Dharma Leadership with #angelKyotoWilliams

October 31, 2013 by heatherlynmann

I have the great fortune to co-lead a retreat with angel Kyoto Williams this coming April. The event, sponsored by Spirit Rock Meditation Center, is for the Community Dharma Leadership Program, forth cohort. Here is a gentle story from the Huffington Post that reflects her lovely way.

A #HealthyDiet of #SenseImpressions

October 29, 2013 by heatherlynmann

I lived these past six years aboard a sailboat and learned how to navigate the surface of the water with Bodhisattva Great Atlantic Ocean. This watery world is a place Beat Generation poet Gary Snyder would call the “primary temple of wilderness.” In my practice I have come to know…

#RadicalTransformation for #EnvironmentalActivists and #Buddhist Practitioners

October 2, 2013 by heatherlynmann

Each of us--as children of Mother Earth--can benefit from a spiritual relationship with the natural world. Countless studies disclose the mental and physical benefits that emerge from time in nature. But two groups are especially ripe to have that relationship be intentional and radically transformative: environmental activists and Buddhist practitioners.…

This is Eden

April 25, 2013 by heatherlynmann

I honor the organic garden I honor the industrial farm I honor the field of prairie grass I honor the brown field I honor the rock atop the mountain I honor the clay crushed beneath the condo I honor the sand beneath the sea I honor the sand fracturing oil…

Heather Lyn Mann