Healing Earth invites readers to bring together empirical knowledge with mindful reflection. Read about how Kritee, Zen priest-scientist, takes on climate anxiety and ecological grief through meditation. She says, “For the longest time, I did not bring what I felt about environmental issues into my meditation. I felt that whatever I was learning as an environmental scientist was an intellectual exercise.”
Have you ever experienced anxiety or grief about the state of the Earth? If you have, you’re not alone. Let’s take a moment to share in the following words as a form of meditation together:
“We join with the earth and with each other.
To bring new life to the land
To restore the waters
To refresh the air
We join with the earth and with each other.
To renew the forests
To care for the plants
To protect the creatures
We join with the earth and with each other.
To celebrate the seas
To rejoice in the sunlight
To sing the song of the stars
We join with the earth and with each other.
To recreate the human community
To promote justice and peace
To remember our children
We join with the earth and with each other.
We join together asmany and diverse expressions of one loving mystery: for the healing of the earth and the renewal of all life.”
-U.N. Environmental Sabbath Program