An Earth Holder Report & Invitation
Dear Friends, Good news! The Earth Holder Community took great leaps forward this past year. We want to share some of the good news with you and hope that you might want to support our…
Retreat Announcement: We are the Earth Walking on Earth
Earth Holder Retreat Feb 26 – Mar 1, 2020 Deer Park Monastery, Escondido, California Please join us for this 5-day mindfulness retreat. The freshness and beauty of the chaparral in springtime will be the setting…
ARISE Sangha Offers First Webinar
Sunday, November 178am Pacific/11am Eastern What Does It Mean to Awaken Through Race, Intersectionality, and Social Equity? ARISE is excited to be hosting our first 90-minute online webinar. We invite you to join us as…
Constructive, Obstructive, and Transformational Practices
The Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism asks that we not turn away from planetary suffering. In fact, Earth Holders take as our career non-violent action to ease suffering–in ourselves, each other, all beings, and…
Earth-Loving Practices for Simple, Ethical Living
The Plum Village Mindfulness Trainings represent a Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic. To observe, study, and practice the Trainings is to cultivate the insight of interbeing, or Right View. When applied to…
Taking Refuge and Cultivating Healing with Mother Earth
Listening to media and certain conversations, we may come to feel overwhelmed by the climate crisis. We may even view the Earth as the source of our pain. Earth Holders cultivate a different view. We…
Become an Earth Holder Regional Community Builder NOW
What? The Earth Holder Care Taking Council seeks to recruit, orient, network, and support a group of 20-25 experienced Plum Village practitioners from diverse backgrounds to serve as spiritual organizers or “Regional Community Builders.” The “Builders”…
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Core Earth Holder Teachings
We are grateful to Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh for giving the world a collection of teachings about Mother Earth and our relationship to this precious planet. In these videos, Thay looks deeply and applies…
“Earth Holders:” the Origin of Our Name
The Bodhisattva Dharanimdhara–an enlightened being from ancient Buddhist texts—is translated by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh to be the “Bodhisattva Protector of the Earth” or “Earth Holder.” Nhat Hanh goes on to explain: This Bodhisattva…
The Roots of Engaged Buddhism
What is “engaged Buddhism?” Here, Thich Nhat Hanh explains its meaning in his own words. When I was in Vietnam, so many of our villages were being bombed. Along with my monastic brothers and sisters,…
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