Compassion in Crisis: Buddhist Skilful Means

A talk by Jake Lyne on ecodharma, now available on youTube

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