Saturday, 8th August, 8pm AEST 
Touching the Earth

Dear Respected Family,

Please joins us along with Tony, 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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Our theme for August 2026 is:
The Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore
Understanding the Sutra: Verse 6:
The Twelve Links of Interdependent Arising
And their Extinction
Are also not separate self-entities

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Once again we meet Thay making corrections to known teachings. He presented his re-translation of the Sutra in 2014 but his commentary in his book,

 

The Other Shore, wasn’t published until around 2017 In that interim he has re-thought the teachings of the Eighteen Realms of Phenomena because he has proposed Five Links to replace the Twelve and states that because they are not separate self-entities if there is the extinction of one link there is the extinction of all .