Dear friends from near and far,

Please join us on Zoom this full moon, Wednesday, October 20, 2021
at 6pm Pacific / 7pm Mountain / 9pm Eastern time  
for the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Meditation

We are incredibly excited and deeply honored to welcome beloved teacher,
Joanna Macy, to this month’s global healing call!
 

The call will open with Cynthia and Joanna in conversation about the work of global healing in today’s world and Joanna’s experience with stewarding an Earth Treasure Vase herself. Joanna will stay with us through the guided meditation and prayer ceremony, with the possibility of a Q&A at the end. Please come one and all to meet this wise elder who has been such an influence on this practice for so long! (See more about Joanna below).
 
About this full moon, our friend and colleague, astrologer David Nicol, has written, “This month’s full moon offers, I believe, a crucial initiatory passage into courage. Humanity is being challenged, for real, to step into the courage it will take to choose a path aligned with love rather than fear. Each of us is being challenged to step into that courage more fully on a personal level. Courage is the price of entrance to spiritual adulthood. It can only be realized through facing into our deepest fears. Can we do this?”

 This month, let’s do this through practicing together – in the good company of Joanna Macy – and strengthen ourselves so we may find the courage to meet the times we have been given to be alive.

Eco-philosopher, founder of the Work That Reconnects, and author of World as Lover, World as Self and Active Hope, Joanna Macy, has been a teacher and mentor to Cynthia since the early 1980s. In the 1990s, Joanna’s teaching on Nuclear Guardianship provided a powerful motivation that led to Cynthia’s receiving the practice of the Earth Treasure Vases. Joanna planted an Earth Treasure Vase near the tritium laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley and was the first to point out that we are all “Vessels of the Holy.” (Watch Cynthia’s film interview with Joanna by that title below). About the Earth Treasure Vases Joanna has written,
 
"This is a remarkable adventure that is underway in our time and it began with one woman's question. The question had ripened within Cynthia Jurs for a decade, since our times together facing nuclear weapons and the challenge they represent to all life on Earth. The response she receives ignites an adventure which, thanks to her courage, moves out across the planet, engaging countless people from all backgrounds. As I took part and watched it unfold, my initial incredulity turned to awe, my inner cynic silenced by tears. Whatever power the Earth Treasure Vases possess to heal our broken world, the real miracle for me is what they awaken and inspire in virtually everyone who accepts the call to fill them with prayer and place them within our larger body, the sacred living body of Earth."
 
Please join us for this very special opportunity to welcome Joanna Macy into our global community, hear her stories, receive her insights, and honor her for her lifetime of service to this beautiful blue-green planet we call home!

This is the recording of their dharma discussion that took place on September 27^th. The conversation touched on practice as pilgrimage, meeting the Buddha as a human being and the trees as a Sangha, the blending of Zen and Vajrayana in America today, and taking refuge in Bodhisattva Gaia.