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Jake Lyne teaching

Compassion in Crisis:

Buddhist Skilful Means for Environmental Action

Talk by Jake Lyne

This 23 minute talk opens with a quote from William Shatner of Star Trek fame, the oldest person to go into space, who was profoundly shocked by the contrast between the beauty of earth from space and his understanding that life is in peril from climate change and loss of biodiversity.

Using video clips to illustrate the talk, Jake outlines the scale and seriousness of the multiple crises facing life on earth, due to fossil fuel use, waste, deforestation and other factors. He  draws on Buddhist wisdom to suggest ways of managing our emotional and attitudinal responses such as anger, despair, naïve optimism, disabling pessimism and denial, in order to find 'an appropriate response', which may be activism, lifestyle changes, helping others in their work for change and so on.

View the video on YouTube
 

Koan Retreat Presentation

Audio files of a talk on the Koan Retreat, given by John Crook in New York in March 2006. Total length 100 minutes, divided into two files:

Lo res files 16kbit, faster to download, about 5.7Mb each, sound quality adequate but not quite as good:

Hi res files 100kbit vbr, slower to download, about 37Mb each, sound quality better:

David Loy talking to Mike Masheder

Western Buddhism: Engaged Buddhism?

A conference of the Bristol Chan Group and the Western Chan Fellowship, 29/30 October 2011. mp3 files, and some corresponding texts.

  1. Mike Masheder Introduction to the day 11Mb
  2. Simon Child: Introduction to the conference 11Mb
  3. Jake Lyne: Buddhist Humanism 44Mb
  4. Jake Lyne: Q&A 8.8Mb
  5. Jan Willis: Buddhism has always been Engaged 67Mb
  6. Jan Willis: Q&A 35Mb
  7. Mike Masheder: Lunch break 1.2Mb
  8. Jan Willis: First workshop 44Mb
  9. Mike Mashder: Intoduction to Devin Ashwood 1.6Mb
  10. Devin Ashwood: The work of Angulimala 33Mb
    Text of the paper presented by Devin Ashwood
  11. Devin Ashwood: Q&A 16MB
  12. Mike Masheder: Close of day one 4.1Mb
  13. Pat Simmons: Introduction to Day two 5Mb
  14. Ken Jones: Towards a Radical Cure of Awakening 82Mb
    Text of the paper presented by Ken Jones
  15. Ken Jones: Q&A 15Mb
  16. Pat Simmons: Introduction to Fiona Nuttall 3.5Mb
  17. Fiona Nuttall: Work, Life, and Lay Practice part 1 64Mb
  18. Fiona Nuttall: Communication Exercise 3.5Mb
  19. Fiona Nuttall: Work Life and Lay Practice part 2 17Mb
  20. Pat Simmons: Thanks to Fiona Nuttall 1.2Mb
  21. Pat Simmons: Introduction to David Loy 1.2Mb
  22. David Loy: A New Type of Engagement part one 113Mb
    Text of the paper presented by David Loy
  23. David Loy: A New Type of Engagement part two 17Mb
  24. Pat Simmons: Close to David Loy 1Mb
  25. Pat Simmons: Introduction to Hilary Richards 5.6Mb
  26. Hilary Richards: Summing up 45Mb
    Text of the Summary presented by Hilary Richards
  27. Hilary Richards: Closing Liturgy 1.5Mb

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