ARISE featured on KPFA Radio
ARISE was featured on KPFA radio — check out and listen to the interview!
ARISE was featured on KPFA radio — check out and listen to the interview!
ARISE Core Members Sister The Nghiem (True Vow) and Valerie Brown gave a Dharma talk on inclusivity at the “Road Ahead: Building Beloved Community” Blue Cliff retreat for Order of Interbeing members in April 2018.
In November 2017, ARISE partnered with the Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation for Giving Tuesday to raise funds to support healing the wounds of racial discrimination through the practice of mindfulness. The response from our Plum Village community was overwhelming, and we raised more than $21,000 in just two days. We are excited to announce that …
Grants available to support mindfulness for people of color in the US Read More »
On a brilliant sunny weekend in late June 2017, twenty Plum Village practitioners gathered at Rose Apple Retreat Center in Vermont for a weekend retreat on “White Awake.” The group included monastics, lay dharma teachers, OI members, and Wake Up members. The retreat was facilitated by core ARISE members Sr. Ocean and John Bell. There …
The 2017 Order of Interbeing retreat at Blue Cliff Monastery was entitled Solid as a Mountain: Cultivating Equanimity and Wise Action. To deepen this theme, the ARISE core group was invited to present a workshop for the Sangha on “Engaging with Skill and Inclusivity.” With interactive exercises, small group reflection, body sensation meditation, and whole …
An Inquiry into the Dharma of Race and Privilege Read More »
Calling all Mindfulness Practitioners to Go As A River at the Women’s March on Washington Saturday, January 21 ~ Meditation is no longer the work of individuals; meditation in our time should be a collective practice. Thich Nhat Hanh, Calming the Fearful Mind, p22. Call to Action Join members of the Thich Nhat Hanh Sangha …
“Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.” (Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. “Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom,” Martin Luther King, Jr., May 4, 1966.) Gatha for Healing Racial, Systemic and Social Inequity Aware of the …