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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - December, 2015 Issue #3 - EXTINCTION / DEVOTION
AS:
For me, I can’t think otherwise, I feel it within myself, in my body.
LW:
Well yes, it is in our bodies!
AS:
Yes, after all we are made of the same stuff.
LW:
I want to return to what you said in the interview after the climate march, that there is no difference
between responding to climate change and practicing the Dhamma. Can you say more about this?
AS:
Well, the Dhamma is a body of teaching that was given by the Buddha and is a recipe for letting go of
greed, hatred and delusion in the mind, and it’s exactly these things that are responsible for actions that
are out of synch with reality. Climate change is part of that because you can’t on a finite plane live in a
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