Engaged Buddhist Practice

Engaged Buddhist Practice takes our meditation practice off the cushion into the world through social and ecological service and action. Mountain Rain sponsors periodic workshops, study groups and guest speakers in support of engaged Buddhist practice. The group puts out an occasional newsletter with information, links, initiatives, and messages from sangha members who wish to link-up to participate in specific Engaged Buddhist activities. 

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Our next meeting is 7:00 pm

  • April 13   

  • May 11   

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April 22 Earth Day

Earth Day 2026 (April 22) features global actions like clean-ups, tree planting, and education, with major events scheduled in late April. In Metro Vancouver key events include Party for the Planet

recommended theatre

Urban Ink is one of the largest Indigenous-led performing arts organizations on the West Coast, and they are thrilled to produce a new musical, On Native Land

recommended films

Dr. Teresa Ryan is featured in the short film, The Salmon Forest Project. Indigenous leaders, university researchers, and the filmmaker explore the intersecting complementarities between traditional knowledge and western science. The film portrays the stunning beauty of north coastal landscapes and some of the communities living at the terrestrial margin of the Pacific Ocean.

In the short film, Between Earth and Sky, renowned ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni studies "what grows back” after a disturbance in the rainforest canopy. After surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, she must turn her research question onto herself to explore the effects of disturbance and recovery throughout her own life.

recommended book

Available at VPL: How to Be Hopeful - Empowering Practices to Overcome Despair and Act for Climate Justice by Elin Kelsey

recommended listen

Legendary scholar, activist, and systems thinker Joanna Macy named the moment we are living through the Great Unraveling—a time when our ecological, political, economic, and social systems destabilize to the point of no return. And yet, she also insisted that we stand on the threshold of a Great Turning: a profound transition toward a more just and sustainable world.

Before Joanna Macey’s death in 2025, climate activist Jess Serrante recorded a series of intimate and insightful conversations with her.

End plastic pollution

Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal has confirmed that the federal government can act to stop plastic pollution. This is a major victory for turtles and fish – and for all of us. It means the federal bans on harmful and unnecessary plastic items such as checkout bags and six-pack ringsstand. It also means there is no excuse for the government to hold back: now is the time for bold and ambitious federal action to protect people and the environment from plastic.

Tell the new federal environment minister to step up the fight against plastic pollution. TAKE ACTION

WESTCOAST CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK - Welcome to the BC Climate News Roundup  

  • BC Climate Events Calendar on the WE-CAN Website.

  • A 4-page colour brochure on LNG- an initiative from West Coast Climate Action Network which is being given to every MLA in Victoria. If you would like copies, you can either download it and print it locally, or send $$ and they’ll print it for you at $1 per copy + postage. Let them know how many you want – their Ladysmith printer has a 50% off sale during April. 

     “Peer-reviewed research shows that LNG’s climate pollution is as bad as or worse than coal. Natural gas is not a ‘transition fuel’. That is a wrong understanding. BC’s proposed projects will produce 380 MT of climate pollution a year, six times more than BC’s 62 MT. Our need is to reduce our climate pollution, not increase it.” inon LNG, which is being givin to every MLA in Victoria.

    If you would like copies, you can either download it and print it locally, or send $$ and they’ll print it for you at $1 per copy + postage. Let them know how many you want – their Ladysmith printer has a 50% off sale during April. 

     “Peer-reviewed research shows that LNG’s climate pollution is as bad as or worse than coal. Natural gas is not a ‘transition fuel’. That is a wrong understanding. BC’s proposed projects will produce 380 MT of climate pollution a year, six times more than BC’s 62 MT. Our need is to reduce our climate pollution, not increase it.” 

The climate crisis has caught up with us –

-but Canada’s largest pension fund still hasn’t caught up to the risk. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) quietly abandoned its net-zero target earlier this year – while nearly one-third of its board of directors held direct ties to fossil fuel companies.

This isn’t just bad optics. It’s a failure of governance that puts our retirement security and the planet at risk.

It’s time to demand a fossil-free board. More information HERE

We hope that the resources below will inspire you to write and send letters to your MLA.

Let’s support each other in practicing right speech, voicing our concerns regarding current social/environmental/climate issues. Let’s find ways to express wisdom and compassion in response to the issues that concern us most deeply.

Who to send your letters to - Find MLA by community -

BC SOCIETY FOR POLICY SOLUTIONS - a progressive public policy research institute that looks at issues facing British Columbia and proposes bold and achievable policy solutions that centre social, economic, racial and environmental justice in BC. We face an emerging global trifecta of authoritarianism, growing inequality and a capture of our public institutions by wealthy elites—pushing us towards a breaking point for democracy and erosion of human rights. This makes existing crises on the climate and economic insecurity fronts worse—insecurity is in the air, by design.

IDEAS TO MEET THE MOMENT offers an overview of bold and achievable ideas that are already here. Ideas that if acted upon could help our province take much better care of the people who live here, and the land that we live on.