Author: Kaira Jewel Lingo
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Befriending Eco-Anxiety: A Practice of Deep Adaptation
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Walking along stretches of beach in Colombo, Sri Lanka, a city of five million people, trash is everywhere: plastic bottles, straws and bags, styrofoam, the lone flip flop, take-out food containers, and more. At one spot there is a strong, unpleasant odour, where an open sewage line flows directly into the ocean. The contrast between…
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Kindness Meditation: A Short Practice for Cultivating Kindness
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To celebrate World Kindness Day, Kaira Jewel, a former Buddhist nun who lived for 15 years in the Plum Village community, offers reflections and a mindfulness practice to help us cultivate kindness. I moved to Colombo, Sri Lanka a year ago. During the first six weeks or so I experienced culture shock as I adjusted…
