GAIA MANDALA

EARTH RISING PODCAST with Erin Haley –
Summoned by the Earth: Healing Our World with Cynthia Jurs | Season 3 Ep 8

Cynthia has spent the last 30 years traveling the world with a healing practice that involves burying clay pots in the Earth called Earth Treasure Vases. This network of almost 100 vases and growing spans dozens of countries across the globe on all 7 continents. Each vase is filled with its own unique healing aspirations and blessings. It is a practice that has fostered community and built cross cultural connections in the spirit of climate stewardship.

In this episode, Cynthia and I discuss how the Earth Treasure Vase practice first came to be and its inspiring unfolding in the decades since.

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TRAKING YES PODCAST with Liz Wiltzen –
Caring for the Earth (with Cynthia Jurs) | E55

Join us for an inspiring conversation about Cynthia’s new memoir “Summoned By the Earth“. She shares how Earth Treasure Vases are a form of acupuncture for the Earth; designed to bring elemental imbalances into harmony in places that need healing and protection. 

Cynthia’s journey invites us to open to guidance from the natural world while we explore meaningful questions at this pivotal time of collective awakening.

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MAKING MEANING PODCAST with Reese Brown –
Listening to our Sacred Activist Summons | S3 E12

Join host Reese Brown as she sits down with Cynthia Jurs to discuss her book Summoned by the Earth and how to listen to our call to sacred activism.

EMBODIMENT MATTERS PODCAST with Carl Rabke & Erin Gessaman –
Summoned by the Earth; A Conversation with Cynthia Jurs

In this conversation, hosts, Carl Rabke & Erin Gessaman Rabke and cohost, Leilani Navar, of The Turning Season Podcast, speak with their friend and teacher, Cynthia Jurs. Cynthia’s recently published Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing our World, is a wisdom book for our times and is an extraordinary weaving of spiritual biography, riveting travel adventures, essential Dharma instructions, sacred activism, deep ecology, indigenous wisdom, and an overall beautiful story of a human being dedicating her life to liberation, and caring for this living Earth in these mythic times in which we live. The conversation moves through many terrains including working with difficult times, the balance of prayer and activism, dismantling systems of domination, keeping our fingernails dirty with the work and practices of liberation, and so much more.

Here is the link to the conversation

Banyen Books & Sound

The replay of Cynthia’s talk for the Banyen Books community is now available. In Summoned by the Earth, Cynthia Jurs embarks on a transformative journey sparked by an encounter with a Himalayan lama, who tasks her with distributing earth treasure vases to heal the planet. This odyssey takes her across the globe, connecting with diverse communities and ecosystems, from survivors of war in Liberia to indigenous elders in Australia and New Mexico. Along the way, she encounters inspiring individuals working towards solutions, culminating in a profound realization that the Earth’s heart is everywhere. Through narratives of resilience and activism, the book urges readers to recognize their role as stewards of the Earth and embrace collective awakening to address the urgent challenges we face, offering a compelling call to become “sacred activists” in service to the planet.

THE HUMAN CHALLENGE PODCAST with Vanessa Ferlaino –
Ep 37 Summoned by Earth ft Honourary Lama Cynthia Jurs

Dharma Talk by Cynthia Jurs, Upaya Zen Center, August 14, 2024
– Taking Refuge in Gaia & Responding to Her Summons; A Dharma Path for our Times

Zen Peacemakers: Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing Our World

Cynthia Jur discuss her new book, Summoned by the Earth, which offers a riveting account of one woman’s response to the challenges we face and is an irresistible invitation to become “sacred activists” heeding the call of the Earth.

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What is Going Om Podcast with Sandie Sedgbeer – An Ancient Ritual and a Sacred 30-Year Quest to Heal the Earth with Cynthia Jurs;

Dharma Talk by Cynthia Jurs, Upaya Zen Center, August 14, 2024
– Taking Refuge in Gaia & Responding to Her Summons; A Dharma Path for our Times

To Live a Life of No Regret Dharma Talk with Cynthia Jurs

On March 2, 2024, Cynthia Jurs gave this dharma talk during a Day of Mindfulness. She spoke from her experience and answered many questions about applying the Five Mindfulness Trainings in non-monastic lives. She also guided us to deeper levels of meaning, into the potential for living a life of no regret. A Day of Mindfulness is a joyful opportunity to take a meaningful break from our daily lives and enter more deeply into the practice of mindfulness.

Living from a Place of Possibility in Challenging Times

Meeting the Moment in these Hard Times; a dharma talk for the group, One Meditation on 6-12-22

These times of crisis provide us a powerful opportunity. We are being presented with the possibility of participating in a collective awakening—being part of a critical mass of humanity that recognizes we are not separate from each other or from the web of life. We have an opportunity to wake up and BE the change—what Buddha Shakyamuni was calling us to all along. When we find our breath in the practice of meditation, we align ourselves with the life force of Mother Earth. When we breathe with awareness, we literally feed our Spirit and the Spirit of Mother Earth. This is enough to transform everything, and bring renewal when we are suffering and afraid. We need to practice touching the wondrous, refreshing, and healing elements that are inside and around us, in order to be able to have the energy to face the difficult things in ourselves and in our world.

Earth Treasure Vase Dialogue with Joanna Macy 10-20-21

This conversation between Cynthia Jurs and Joanna Macy took place on the Full Moon of October 20, 2021 when the Gaia Mandala Community gathered for the monthly Global Healing Meditation. Joanna has been an inspiration to Cynthia since the 1980s. She stewarded an Earth Treasure Vase herself in the 1990s, and her Work That Reconnects and on Nuclear Guardianship has been a guiding influence for Cynthia in carrying out the assignment with the Earth Treasure Vases. Welcoming Joanna to our circle, we honor her for being a living treasure among us.

Earth Treasure Vase Conversation with Cynthia Lazaroff 3-18-22

Evolutionary Sacred Activism ~ a talk by Cynthia Jurs for the Global Mystics Certification Program with Andrew Harvey and Mirabai Starr

For the Love of Gaia; Becoming a Holy Vessel in Service to Her

Cynthia Jurs shares her love affair with the Earth, and the story of how she met the “old wise man in the cave” and asked him her most burning question. She tells of the assignment she was given, where it has taken her, and what it has demanded. She’ll also speak to a new practice of Tara Gaia that’s been catalyzed in her, which she is now transmitting to all who are hearing the call.

Note: This interview is part of the Mystics Summit, a free online event where you can reconnect with Divine love in the midst of complexity and turmoil. For more information, please visit https://mysticssummit.com. This recording is a copyright of The Shift Network. All rights reserved.

Climate Crisis, Grief and Interbeing

A panel discussion with Charles Eisenstein, Thomas Hubl, Bayo Akomolafe and Cynthia Jurs facilitated by Zaya Bennazzo at the Science and Nonduality Conference 2019

Mirabai Starr Interview with Cynthia Jurs for the Shift Network

For her course on Wild Goddesses and Mystics of Mercy, Mirabai Starr interviewed Cynthia Jurs on her relationship with Gaia and the practice of the Earth Treasure Vases.

Introducing Tara Gaia

An hour-long conversation between Cynthia Jurs and David to introduce the practice of Tara Gaia. Includes discussion of how the adaptation from a practice of Tara to one of Gaia evolved, at this time when we are all being called to wake up in relation to Mother Earth, this practice can serve as a profound spiritual support, and features an introduction to methods of practicing in the Vajrayana tradition using visualization and mantra recitation with a brief teaching on the Gaia Mantra with a recitation.

Cynthia Jurs Interview; Earth Treasure Vases, Peacebuilding in Liberia, Sacred Activism, Being Peace & Collective Awakening

Gaia Calling

A short video for the 7-week course, Gaia Calling; Becoming a Vessel for Global Healing & Collective Awakening. April 2020.

Loving Gaia; Interview with Cynthia Jurs & Clare Dubois

Cynthia Jurs, whose mission includes the spreading and burying of Treasure Vases as gifts for Gaia’s healing, and Clare Dubois, founder of TreeSisters offer their life experience as a gateway into the imagining and dreaming of more feminine potential in this world. This conversation touches on their own journeys of finding courage, dealing with the unknown, feeling intimately connected to Gaia, stepping through fear and working with the limitations of the body. January 2020

Nepal Earth Treasure Vase Pilgrimage: Coming Home to Gaia

Vessels of the Holy; Interview with Joanna Macy

Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy talks about the legacy of nuclear weapons and the need for Nuclear Guardianship and her experience of working with an Earth Treasure Vase.

Life is Returning; Liberia 2011

After taking an Earth Treasure Vase to Liberia, the process of peace building continued with the dedication of a traditional Peace Hut in the village where the vase was buried.

Alaska Earth Treasure Vase Pilgrimage

The Earth Treasure Vase for Alaska was buried in collaboration with native Gwich’in leader and activist, Evon Peter, his family and a small group of participants from around the world. This vase held the intention to protect the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, the native people and animals from oil and other natural resource extraction, and global warming due to big industry.

South Africa Earth Treasure Vase

An Earth Treasure Vase was buried at the base of the Nilotic Meridian in South Africa above the Blyde River Canyon after taking it to receive the prayers of the Kalahari San People. We also invited the blessings of all the great African animals including the prophesied White Lions of Timbavati.

Gabarnmang Earth Treasure Vase

The first of the second generation of Earth Treasure Vases was buried at a 50,000-year-old rock shelter covered in paintings in remote Arnhem Land in 2015 at the invitation of custodial elder, Aunty Margaret Katherine Oenpelli.

3/15/21: Foundations Of Bodhicitta

In this week’s MMM, Cynthia speaks to bodhicitta, our wish to cultivate understanding into order to bring happiness to all beings. Each of us has Buddha nature. Each of us has wisdom to offer. We ask ourselves what is our motivation? Are we really aware of where we are coming from? The main point of our practice is to transform the attachment to our sense of self, and to wake up to that selfless nature of all that is. We practice in such a way to break through deep habitual patterns of identifying with a sense of self as being the very center of everything. We see how important it is to care for each other. And so, our practices can facilitate the experience of interbeing. Turning around our orientation from self to other, arousing our great love for the world, we can take the vow of the Bodhisattva to awaken for the benefit of all beings. 

3/29/21: The Fruits Of Practice

In this week’s Monday Mindfulness Meditation, Liza Jane Alexander, a dedicated practitioner, musician and sangha member from Eastern Tennessee, was guest facilitator for Cynthia Jurs. Liza spoke eloquently about how we can become gardeners, composting the seeds of our hatred, discrimination, despair and anger into beautiful flowers, to help the energy of happiness and peace grow in ourselves and in the world. She illuminated how our mind consciousness is like a storehouse that contains all kind of seeds and yet like a garden, it cannot cultivate itself. We need to water and tend the seeds of understanding, love, peace and liberation so they grow into fruit that supports life. The practice of mindfulness is not to get rid of afflictions, but to accept them and touch them with our insight, which brings transformation. Liza brought out her guitar and skillfully interspersed her talk with wonderful songs from Thich Nhat Hanh’s tradition to open our hearts.

2/07/22: Remembering Thich Nhat Hanh

2/21/21: Introduction to The Heart Sutra

In this talk, Cynthia Jurs speaks about how in the weeks after Thich Nhat Hahh’s passing, she is reminded of how he used to say it is a “radical act to stop”. In response to this call to stop and appreciate all he gave us, Cynthia shares that she and her dharma sister in Thay’s lineage, Wendy Johnson, will offer 2 weeks of teachings on The Heart Sutra on March 7 & 14 to bookend the final ceremonies for the 49^th day after Thay’s passing on March 11th, when his ashes will be spread. There are many translations of the Heart Sutra, including two from Thay—his 2nd translation was completed just two months before his stroke in 2014—we will explore these together. In today’s talk Cynthia read an excerpt from “The Heart of Understanding” as a warm up for these next 2 sessions. She also chanted the Heart Sutra with the drum the way she originally learned it from Korean Zen Master Soen Sa Nim.

Note: Apologies that the drum’s audio sounds so bad on the recording, and there was a pause in the drumbeat for Cynthia to scroll thru to complete the reading of the sutra.