Backyard Dharma is envisioning a Buddhist retreat center in the woods of Minnesota! After our recent trip to France the vision of moving to the Midwest of the United States came to us. We have just returned from our visit to Minnesota and fell in love with the area around Bemidji, We are now doing the work to see if you can secure a beautiful piece of property to realize our vision. Today, we call this vision, “Dandelion Acres.” . If you would like to join our email list please subscribe below.
Purpose
Backyard Dharma is devoted to an ongoing exploration of the meaning of life and service in a context of climate emergency and the Sixth Great Extinction. The perspective is Buddhist – the bodhisattva path – and is intended to lift up and celebrate the work and lives of women, BIPOC and queer folk. The invitation is to evolve consciousness toward wholeness and belonging to the Earth. Will the emerging worldwide evolution of consciousness toward non-duality and away from othering each other and our precious Earth save humanity from extinction? No one knows. Is it worth doing anyway? I think so. I hope you do too.
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Mission
To advance peace and wholeness through the collective work of understanding humanity and all beings as interdependent, as essential to each other, as one Earth.
Vision
Humanity is in integrity and right relationship with Earth and all beings.
Purpose
To contribute to the awakening of each of us and to the awakening of humanity as a whole to our belonging to each other and to the Earth through spiritual practice, art, music, language, reflection, learning, resource sharing, and action.
Intersections
We hold in humility the understanding that the environmental movement in the U.S. has been largely white bodied while impacts have been largely borne by BIPOC, women, and other marginalized groups, communities, and nations worldwide. We commit to centering the voices of women, indigenous people, people of color, and queer people in this space. We acknowledge that as white bodied cis-gendered humans we have blind spots and we hope for and invite compassionate feedback when we err. That being said, hate speech and othering have no place here. Peace ~
Question: What can I do as an individual? Answer: Stop being an individual ~ Bill McKibbon, 350.org
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