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 the Earth. Specifically, we cultivate skillful means through mindfulness practices in three strategic ways. It is important to acknowledge the…
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 daily living, the Trainings can remove anger, fear, despair; bring an end to old habits of harm; and nourish ourselves,…
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 see the Earth as the most precious jewel of the cosmos, a living body which gives birth to and sustains…
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” will encourage and coordinate PV sanghas and members to engage in Earth Holding practices and mindfulness-based Earth and Racial Justice…
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 the Buddha’s ancient wisdom to today’s environmental crisis. He illuminates a healing path of Earth holding and protecting and charts…
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 helps further communication between humans and other species… Earth Holder works to preserve this planet for living beings by taking…
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, I had to decide what to do. Should we continue to practice in our monasteries, or should we leave the…
A whopping 22% of land-bound carbon is sequestered by tropical forests which are owned and stewarded by indigenous peoples. The UN’s top climate science body says land tenure of Indigenous and traditional landholders is key to slowing the climate crisis — but those groups in Colombia warn they can’t protect the forests if they can’t…
Many counties in the US have already hit 1.5 C rise and some cases even 2.0 C rise. You’ll recall, the 2015 Paris Accord on Climate Change, and all the future commitments countries promised there, were to keep global warming “well below 2 C. 1.5 and 2.0 C rises already have happened in California, Wisconsin,…
Dear friends, when you are feeling stable and strong please look deeply into the suffering of Mother Earth. Here’s a BBC article about something happening here and now to our planet body.
Wear a green ribbon to show you are an Earth Holder
