Zhiwa Woodbury
Zhiwa is a long-time student of Ven. Thubten Chodron who has devoted his life to being an advocate for all things natural - including human nature! He has taken turns as an environmental attorney, a climate psychologist, and a writer/journalist. He is a life-long meditator who backpacked around the world in 1991 and met the Dharma on Cloud Mountain with Ven. Chodron in 1999, which he says was a turning point in his life and in his career. He fully embraced the Lamrim at that time, began studying with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, presented on climate grief at the Mind & Life Institute, and is currently a devoted student of Her Holiness Kunga Bhuma, the first female state oracle of Tibet. Zhiwa blogs under the pen name Tham Zhiwa @ The Dharma Beat on Substack, and his academic papers are freely available on Academia.edu.
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Zhiwa Woodbury Climate grief and resilience
Work to return bison to grasslands in the western US and reasons to be optimistic…
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The kindness of strangers
A student comes to realize the compassion of sentient beings around him. Then, during retreat,…
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Meditating on our precious human life
A guided meditation on how to rejoice in our precious human life instead of taking…
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