“This transition to a life sustaining culture is a revolution in the magnitude and scope of the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago.”
The Great Turning, Awakened Action Symposium
On the Summer Solstice of 2020 Joanna Macy, from her home in Berkeley, spoke at the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Buddhist monastery had called for Awakened Action and invited Women Leaders to Speak to Race, Poverty, Climate, and the Covid Pandemic.
Joanna Macy is an eco-philosopher and a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. Now in her very early nineties she has for decades helped transform despair and apathy into constructive change. As teacher, writer of eight books and antinuclear activist she has created frameworks for personal and social change. Joanna Macy is probably best know as the founder and root teacher of the Work That Reconnects.
Thanks to Roshi Joan Halifax and the Upaya Zen Center and to Joanna Macy for their permission to broadcast this thought provoking and inspiring talk.
LINKS: https://www.joannamacy.net/ and https://www.upaya.org/
CREDITS: Joanna Macy and the Upaya Zen Center
DATE: June 21, 2020
LOCATION Santa Fe, NM, and Berkeley, CA, via internet
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.8MB)
