What is Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy?

Chaplaincy is sacred work in that it can involve touching and caring for the deepest, most personal, and most valuable areas of people’s lives. 

Eco-chaplaincy explicitly adds to this a focus on the sacred or profound interconnectedness people have with the natural world.

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    SALES MANAGER

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  • Eleanor Parks

    MARKETING DIRECTOR

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  • Karl Holland

    CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER

    Friendly, attentive, and always ready to help, our customer service manager ensures every interaction is a positive one. They keep communication clear, timely, and human.

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A History of Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy

The teachings of Buddhism and the practice of mindfulness can strengthen our capacity to respond skilfully to the above questions.

Attending open-heartedly to the present moment, a core teaching of the Buddha, can be considered an act of great courage. In doing so, we increase our willingness and capacity to be with suffering and to respond not with aversion or denial but with compassion and wisdom.

Western Buddhism has a long history of engaged practice in the West; while most notable in the tradition of Zen Buddhist practitioner Thích Nhất Hạnh, students and teachers of various traditions have found that the insights of impermanence and interconnection help inspire and fuel an inclination to attend to wisely to contemporary cases of injustice and inequality.