Victor von der Heyde is an Australian dharma teacher. His main influence in the dharma world was Rob Burbea. Victor was co-founder of Sydney Insight Meditators and the Bodhgaya Development Association.
He writes: These days my passions in teaching - and practice - include exploring the various responses to climate breakdown, the way we treat others on the planet, and the ways that we often get stuck with particular concepts of self and world. And stuck with particular meditation practices. My intention is to open up freeing and soulful possibilities for people.
We’re part of a culture that is sacrificing a stable climate and the well-being of future generations for short term gain, short term convenience and pleasures. There's ongoing questions as to what values we hold and what we do to honour those values. The talks outlines the the beginnings of run-away climate breakdown, the range of felt responses, failure of the collective imagination, behavioural denial, ecological debt and how facing that can be a type of awakening, the sense of sacredness, other dharma perspectives, and questions about responses.
What does it mean to live a beautiful life? And are we called to the possibility of a beautiful life? , or crafting, of making an art of our life? Of making our life something beautiful?
Exploration of the types of dukkha in relation to what’s happening to the earth, views behind the crisis, the age of separation, human supremacy, climate change nihilism, climate awakening
This 2013 talk explores the science and outlook of the time, the ethics in relation to climate breakdown and the various ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their actions.
