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Article: Beyong environment - Falling back in love with Mother Earth
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. Photograph: Plum Village
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh explains why mindfulness and a spiritual revolution rather than economics is needed to protect nature and limit climate change.
...Move beyond concept of the "environment"
...Putting an economic value on nature is not enough
...How mindfulness can reconnect people to Mother Earth
...Need to deal with ones own anger to be an effective social activist
...Touching the "ultimate dimension"
...Remaining optimistic despite risk of impending catastrophe
"We have constructed a system we can't control. It imposes itself on us, and we become its slaves and victims".
"We have created a society in which the rich become richer and the poor become poorer, and in which we are so caught up in our own immediate problems that we cannot afford to be aware of what is going on with the rest of the human family or our planet Earth".
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