“Love is Freedom” – Local Sangha Gatherings Worldwide

By Simona Coayla-Duba

“Love is Freedom” – Global Earth Retreat, June 2023Local SanghasGatherings Worldwide  Join the retreat with practitioners in your region We encourage local Sanghas/ groups and friends to join the online retreat together with your local group. In a number of cities and practice centers around the world local Sanghas will participate in the retreat together…

March 18th Planetary Tea Time

By Simona Coayla-Duba

Planetary Tea TimeMeditation and Dharma Talk With Br. Phap DungPanel with Br. Phap Dung, Sr. Peace, Felipe Viveros, & Anh TranMarch 18th, 8:00am-10:00am (PT/ Los Angeles) Dear Friends, We are very happy to invite you to the second free Planetary Tea Time on March 18th, 2023! On March 18th the Planetary Tea Time, we will…

Jan. 28th, 2023 Planetary Tea Time

By Simona Coayla-Duba

We are very happy to invite you to a planetary Earth Holder’s Tea-Time on January 28, 2022! Whether you are living in Europe, Africa, the Americas, or Asia, you are all warmly invited to a global Earth Holder online be-in.  The call will be at 4pm CET/ Paris time, 7am PT, 10 am ET,12 am in Buenos Aires and…

🌏2022 End-of-Year Love Letter💚

By Simona Coayla-Duba

Dear Thay, Dear Beloved Community, This is it! As we approach the end of this 2022 calendar year, with gratitude, we extend our end-of-year greetings to you, the Earth Holder Community and the wider Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism. We offer this love letter to reflect on and celebrate some of the joys, efforts,…

🌻Welcome new EHC CTC members: Maíra, Ivan, Himdeep & Aaron!

By Simona Coayla-Duba

Dear Beloved Community,  The EHC Care-Taking Council is feeling fresh with the new year. The CTC has happily welcomed 4 new members. Please join us in welcoming: 💚 Maíra Fernandes de Melo (she/ela/ella), 💚 Ivan Trujillo Priego (he/el), 💚 Himdeep Singh (he/him),💚 Aaron Solomon, Brother Fulfillment Maíra Fernandes de Melo (she/ela/ella) is a journalist, scholar, poet and activist,…

Daily EH Practices for COP26

By Simona Coayla-Duba

Dear Earth Holders, thank you for joining us in daily practices throughout COP26. We are housing the daily practices here so that we may continue to returning to these offerings even as we go forth from COP. COP26 & EHC  Oct 31st Practices Nov 1st Practices Nov 2nd Practices Nov 3rd Practices Nov 4th Practices…

Reverence for Life at COP26

By Simona Coayla-Duba

Dear Earth Holders, The COP26 UN Climate Conference will take place this year in Glasgow from November 1st-12th. During the conference, the Earth Holder Community, with Les Gardien.ne.s de la Terre (the French speaking Earth Holder Plum Village Community), invite you to sit and practice with us in a daily meditation cycle to connect with the Living Earth in us and around…

Join the Care-Taking Council

By Chaya

The Earth Holder Community’s (EHC) Care-Taking Council (CTC) is growing! We are especially inviting Black, Indigenous, Latinx, LBGTQIA+, and Wake Up Plum Village practitioners to apply. Join us in embodying earth and racial justice in our collective work. Application form: CTC membership and inquiry application The deadline to apply is October 24th 2021.