Five Things I’ve Learned About Compassionate Action
Satya Robyn
19 July 2023
Satya Robyn reflects on her life as an activist and a changing of the seasons to a new focus
Satya Robyn is a writer, a psychotherapist, a Buddhist teacher, and a member of Extinction Rebellion, seeking to bring about needed change in our human relationship with the earth. Her latest book Dear Earth: Love, grief and activism (Woodsmoke Press 2020) is out now. More on her life and work can be found at her website, www.satyarobyn.com. She runs the Bright Earth Buddhist Temple in the UK with her husband Kaspa: www.brightearth.org.
Dear Earth offers monthly writings from the heart, touching on both the devastation that humans have wrought on the earth and the beautiful possibilities for transformation within each of us as individuals and of our interconnected societies.
Our Own Source of Power
Satya Robyn
3 May 2023
On the delicate process of saying no when needed in order to create space for more meaningful pursuits
The Joy of Accepting Our Limits
Satya Robyn
14 April 2023
Exploring self-awareness and the importance of supportive community as we share in the many tasks of life
The Buddha’s Teaching: Permission to Be Ourselves
Satya Robyn
2 March 2023
Contemplating the space between Buddhist activism and community building
How the Magic Works
Satya Robyn
14 February 2023
Satya Robyn explores those moments of compassion and wisdom that can arise spontaneously in our relationships with others
The Extraordinary Gift of Impermanence
Satya Robyn
17 January 2023
BDG columnist Satya Robyn guides us through the impermanence of all things, large and small, on a path to gratitude
What Is Your Role in These Times of Crisis?
Satya Robyn
28 December 2022
Inviting each of us to check in with our hearts and ask what we can do in these perilous times
Things Are Awful, Things Are Getting Worse
Satya Robyn
8 November 2022
As another round of climate talks begins and we have seen so many promises broken, how might we find a core of light and good in the world?
Soup and a Broken Heart
Satya Robyn
20 October 2022
A Buddhist reflection on the recent UK “soup protest,” the climate crisis, and the lack of political motivation to make changes needed to keep our planet livable
On Not Going Gently
Satya Robyn
10 October 2022
How writing a new book on being gentle can actually make life more difficult
Living in End Times
Satya Robyn
1 September 2022
Applying the Buddhist wisdom of the vastness of time and the importance of refuge to the reality of our current climate crisis
The Center Within
Satya Robyn
5 August 2022
Allowing questions to unravel threads of identity and clinging so as to see and breathe more clearly and freely in our lives