Satipatthana Essays

Thich Nhat Hanh is a Zen Buddhist, talks about ecology and Buddhism in his book ‘The World We Have, A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology’. Hanh criticizes the way we are consuming the resources of our mother earth and fears the survival of next generations. Mother earth is suffering from natural disasters which are more or less the results of our consumption patterns. Human beings have affected our mother earth in various ways and as a result the fear of survival has emerged. Ecological behavior

the churches and stirred their quiet pools. Meetings after meetings are held. The same energetic souls are found busy at their respective work as well as they are engaged in many good works too. But Meyer warns that one must beware that one does not substitute the active for the contemplative, the valley for the mountaintop. One should have time to be alone with God. The concealed and the shut door are indispensable. One should be still and know that God is within thee and around! In the silence