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We are live...

Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Greetings from Myanmar. We have reached an important milestone in our project, the launch of this website! I am so grateful to everyone who has shown their interest and support, to all my teachers, and to the great thinkers and practitioners who have provided the inspiration for this project, many of whose words appear in the “manifesto”.

Shwedagaon Pagoda, Yangon, Myanmar

For the next 6 months I have the good fortune to be travelling overseas, first to study meditation at Pa Auk Tawya forest Monastery in Myanmar, then on pilgrimage to Mt Kailash in Tibet with my dear teacher Bhante Dhammadipa. After this I will be continuing my studies at the International Buddhist Academy in Kathmandu, before hopefully following Bhante to India or more teachings.

Meet our founders... Tenzin Alex

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

As a teenager I had a brush with Zen philosophy through the poems of Basho, and a fascination with the work of Masanobu Fukuoka, but in many ways the forest was my first meditation teacher. At the time I was engaged in field work for my doctoral research into climate change impacts on biodiversity, but sometimes when walking in the beautiful rainforests of Far North Queensland, I would simply stop and sit. Gradually, as my human presence was forgotten, I could listen to forest creatures going about their lives, and see things that might otherwise have remained hidden: a rare tree kangaroo with her joey, Golden Bowerbirds displaying, and once an endangered Tiger Quoll passed within metres.

power of community summit

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This great summit just finished: https://ecovillage.org/event/power-of-community-summit/

I managed to catch a few talks, including Fritjof Capra, Christiana Figueras, and Joanna Macy, which were really good. Due to the timezone difference between here In New South Wales, Australia and Findhorne in Scotland, it was hard to see them all. So we bought the package. I’m looking forward to drawing on this inspiring resource as the project continues…

the project begins...

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A red dragonfly pauses for a moment on a lotus blossom, Lumbini, Nepal, birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama

we are just getting started with our project, deciding on a name, getting a website up and running…