Victor von der Heyde: Dharma and Climate: being part of a sacrifice, how could we respond?

Description

We’re part of a culture that is sacrificing a stable climate and the well-being of future generations for short term gain, short term convenience and pleasures, trinkets.
In the midst of the range of emotional responses we might have to this, there’s ongoing questions as to what values we hold and what we do to honour those values.

Speaker

Victor has been practising meditation for thirty five years. He’s spent over two years in total in silent retreats and has taken dharma teaching roles since the late 1990s. He was co-founder of Sydney Insight Meditators and was for a decade chair of a small overseas aid organisation: the Bodhgaya Development Association. He also trained in Gestalt Therapy and worked for years as a counselor.

He writes: These days my passions in teaching – and practice – include: exploring how we respond to climate breakdown and the loss of species; looking at ways that we get often stuck with particular concepts of self and world and stuck with particular meditation practices. My intention is to open up freeing and soulful possibilities for people.

Info

View live on Zoom from 7.25pm on the night. Talks include meditation and generally conclude at 9pm. Download iCal calendar for the Zoom event.

• Meeting ID: 985 1050 0274
• Passcode: 645945