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 TBA
THE EBPG would like to highlight the following two items:
1, Holding Each Other Close: Trans Spiritual Mentorship Project Fundraiser. From the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF):
Every week, it feels like the blows land harder. Another law. Another ban. Another headline designed to make the air tighter in our lungs, to make the ground less steady under our feet. And still, our people rise. They stitch the fabric of a future that will hold us all.
But no one can do this alone. That’s why BPF is raising funds for Holding Each Other Close — a six-month circle of spiritual friendship and mentorship, kalyana mitta led by and for trans, Two-Spirit, non-binary, and gender expansive Buddhist teachers, healers, and mentors.
This summer, your donation will help us offer this space of spiritual care and kinship — so that trans, Two-Spirit, non-binary, and gender expansive movement leaders on the frontlines can be nourished, steadied, and reminded they don’t have to carry it all alone.
2. Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
August 26, 2025 Burnaby council votes unanimously to ask Ottawa to impose arms embargo on Israel. It also commits Burnaby to the signing of a pledge to be "apartheid free" and commit to freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people, as well as advocate for the feds to expand the temporary resettlement visa program for Canadians seeking to get family members out of Gaza.
There are many petitions circulating for embargos and ending arms transfers to Israel and the country's current humanitarian law violations.
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.
Home on Native Land - Whose Land is This, Anyway?
Welcome to Home on Native Land, a self-guided course about Indigenous justice in Canada. Through a series of 10 videos, cartoons & lessons, you'll take a walk down the back alley of history — and the frontlines of legal action — with Anishinaabe comedian Ryan McMahon.As B.C. prepares to deliver on its promise to get gas out of northeast reserves and ship it to buyers overseas, the LNG sector is set to have huge impacts on northern ecosystems and communities
Squamish environmental group challenges Woodfibre LNG, FortisBC wastewater permits
Climate impacts of expanded fracking and liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Canada
Eco-grief: How to cope with the emotional impacts of climate change. University of Calgary
Click here for PDF of low-waste and refill shopping options in the Metro Vancouver and Sunshine Coast areas.
Art to End Fossil Fuels This Art Kit is a resource to make and use art to end fossil fuels, including how to order (or download) and use the new poster art newspaper. Order your poster art papers-click link: HERE.
West Coast Climate Action Network To receive WE-CAN News directly each week, click here
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.
WESTCOAST CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK - Welcome to the BC Climate News Roundup
LIQUIFIED CLIMATE DISASTER BROCHURE an initiative from West Coast Climate Action Network: A 4-page colour brochure on 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.”
