Talk: Working On Climate Change With The Four Heart Qualities

This talk by Insight Timer Teacher Malcom Huxter is about how in the speaker's view much of climate change is due to greed ignorance and hatred, the root causes of suffering according to the Buddha. The speaker highlights how excessive consumption and ignorance about the interconnection of things, have been instrumental in the environmental decline and climate change. He then describes how the cultivation of benevolence, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity may help to work with climate change.

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I'm a climate scientist and I really needed that. Thank you.

That was beautiful. I wish I knew who the speaker was. I'd like to listen to that again.

Informative and instructive well beyond just our working on climate change. 🙏

Thank you- your talk helped me to understand how I am thinking about climate change & how I can better approach this overwhelming issue

An enjoyable interesting informative talk. Thank you 🙏🏼

Very helpful. Thank you

Thank you 🙏 for sharing this insightful talk with us. Brings me balance to my feelings about the climate crisis.
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Thanks. That brings me wisdom and understanding in these suffering times.

Thank you 🙏🏼

Great talk

Thank you for this profound talk that eased my soul.

Brilliant talk, thank you so much! I’m just starting to learn more about Buddhist teachings and am feeling the benefits of daily meditation. This whole talk succinctly outlining the four heart qualities etc., has really helped me put a lot of what I’m beginning to know and understand into perspective. I also work in sustainability within a UK university, and enabling students (and staff) to engage with the climate crisis and biodiversity loss through this felt sense is so vital to hopeful and positive action; but regrettably is not something that is sufficiently being addressed is our rational, knowledge-bound educational culture! I will take a lot from this and try to instil these truths into my daily work…

Thank you for this wise and hopeful talk. 🙏

Helpful talk. I often feel despair & hopelessness about our world and the destruction of life as we know it. There is no “bright side.” But the speaker gives us avenues to choose ways of being that will enable us to liver with more positivity as the world around us changes.