Saturday,25th July, 8pm AEST 
Touching the Earth

Dear Respected Family,

Please joins us along with Daya, Dipika and Ana-Maria, as we gather for a practice that many of us hold very close to our hearts: the Three Earth Touchings 

 

The Three Earth Touchings invite us to lie down fully on the earth and open ourselves to something vast: our ancestors across bloodlines and spiritual lineages, all beings alive on this planet right now, and the boundless stream of life that we are each a part of.

 

This is a session of stillness and depth, and presence. All are welcome, whether you've touched the earth many times or never before.

"I am part of a stream of life... constantly moving." The Three Earth Touchings, Plum Village

 

Come as you are. Bring a blanket or mat if you'd like to be comfortable on the floor. 

We will touch the earth to nourish our love for ourselves, our spiritual ancestors and our beloved Mother Earth.

With the insight of Interbeing, we know that when we nourish ourselves we nourish each other and have real communication with the earth. Please join us as we practice the Three Earth Touchings that we use at Plum Village practice centres and sanghas in the Plum Village Tradition.

Practicing the Three Earth Touchings gives us an opportunity to deeply touch the reality of interbeing across space and time.

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We hope you can join us 

​Our theme for July 2026 is:
The Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore
Understanding the Sutra: verse 5
The Eighteen Realms of Phenomena
Which are the six Sense Organs
Six Sense Objects
And six Sense Consciousnesses
Are also not separate self-entities.

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In the sutras we learn that everything is found within the eighteen realms of elements composed of the six sense organs, the six sense objects, and the six sense consciousnesses. … But thanks to modern science, we know that the universe is not just what we perceive with our five senses. We now know that all of our senses are quite limited

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So, biology and physics help us to remove our dualistic view of mind and matter, psyche and soma, so that we are able to see the reciprocal and interbeing connection of body and mind. … Whenever we look up at the sky and see the moon, the stars and the galaxies, we have to practice to see that these things are not independent of consciousness. Everything in the cosmos has consciousness in it