by Barbara Lepani | Dec 6, 2021 | Our Collective
Watering New Shoots I watched the way the gum tree forests and tall boy grasses sprouted defiantly and joyously after the black summer fires ravaged the lands around me. I searched for the new tender shoots of wisdom that might sprout as we humans looked into the face...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 22, 2021 | Our Collective
Insights from Tibetan Buddhism The Buddhist scholar, Antonio Terrone (JSRNC 8.4 (2014) pp. 460-482), has explored how the Tibetan Buddhist terma (treasure) tradition of revealed teachings is based on forming an interdependent exchange between humans and the land they...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 10, 2021 | Our Collective
The Serpent Gurrangatch and the Hunter Mirragan The following post is based on a talk that Bhikkhu Sujato gave at “New Horizons in Buddhism”, the 16th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women, held at Leura in the Blue Mountains in June 2019. Global...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 8, 2021 | Our Collective
The Genestream Sculpture Sculpture Designer, Ben Beeton: “When you walk into this sculpture you represent humanity…there’s that sense of responsibility, that sense of heritage and — as the Indigenous people will tell you – that stewardship of the...
by Barbara Lepani | Nov 7, 2021 | Our Collective
Weaving the New Story Many of us realise that the new story about Australia as a global renewable energy superpower is just a continuation of the extractivist ideology of global capitalism that has led to our current climate and environmental crisis. Because it is not...
by Barbara Lepani | Oct 15, 2021 | Commentary, Our Collective
Communicating Indigenous Knowledge and Connection to Country through dance Ian RT Colless, a First Nations Artist and Dancer who lives and works between Sydney and New York, will give a talk at the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute Eco-Arts Seminar on Sunday 24...
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