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.
Registration is open for the upcoming People of Color Retreat this May 2018: Cultivating Compassion & Resilience! It will be held in Baltimore, MD, and co-hosted by Blue Cliff Monastery and the Baltimore and Beyond Mindfulness Community. Retreatants may sign up for the FIVE-DAY Retreat (May 2-6) or the WEEKEND Retreat (May 4-6). [Click here to register] More …
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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 …
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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 …
ARISE members were honored to be Seed Friends for the dharma family streams and affinity groups at the Many Streams, One Source – Healing the Ancestral Heart Retreat during the 2017 Monastic Tour. “I felt a sense of vulnerability and openness at the ‘Many Streams, One Source’…Many who had felt invisible and unheard, including myself, …
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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 …
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In 2015, ARISE Sangha distributed a community survey to help determine priorities on which to focus our efforts. One of the top responses identified in the survey results was the need more leaders of color in our mahasangha. As a result of this response, the ARISE People Of Color (POC) Subgroup convened to discuss and …
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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 …
Dear friends, Please take a few minutes to complete this survey to help us to guide ARISE, the Plum Village Racial Equity Sangha as we grow in the next few years. Background Following a session on Racial Equity held October 31, 2015, at the Deer Park Monastery, a group of practitioners in the Plum Village tradition …
“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 …