My partner and I started a meditation garden together two years ago with big dreams about living lightly on the earth, but now we argue about every decision - whether to use fertilizer, how much water is 'enough,' if buying bamboo screening contradicts our values - and we've lost all the joy that brought us to this practice. We used to sit together in the morning and feel connected to something larger, but now it feels like we're just performing righteousness at each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
The weight of trying to live perfectly according to Buddhist ecological principles has crushed the lightness and spontaneous connection that originally drew this couple to the path.
“Where Are You with Buddhist ecology?”
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