What does it mean to touch the earth? In this inaugural episode, Joel Tagert explores the story of the Buddha's enlightenment beneath the bodhi tree, and what that ancient gesture has to tell us about our relationship to the living world.
Drawing on a pilgrimage to Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya, India, Joel reflects on how place is fundamental to consciousness. Along the way, he traces the tree as symbol through Buddhist history and art, considers the role of trees in the life of our planet, and invites listeners back to the most important place there is - wherever you are right now.
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What is Earth Witness?
Reflections on Buddhist teaching (Dharma), meditation, somatic being and ecology, along with interviews of teachers across the gamut of Buddhist and meditation traditions.