Atonement & Amends for Earth and All Beings
Fri, Apr 21
|Bear Valley Visitor Center
Time & Location
Apr 21, 2023, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Bear Valley Visitor Center, 1 Bear Valley Visitor Center Access Road, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956, USA
About the event
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We’ll gather together on unceded land of the Coast Miwok people to perform the Kuan Yin/Atonement ceremony outdoors for Earth Day weekend.
Join us
We will be honoring and atoning for harms to the non-human realm. Point Reyes is an especially poignant location to host our ceremony. The decades-long use of ⅓ of this public land for dairy ranches has resulted in ecosystem degradation, water pollution, biodiversity loss, and the profound suffering of the native Tule elk and other indigenous species, alongside the cows raised for dairy and veal.
The ceremony will include prayer, a shrine to the animal and Earthen world, an adaptation of the Kuan Yin/Atonement ceremony, and space for participants to offer a message of atonement for taking life and perpetuating harm. We hope you’ll join us for this opportunity to make living amends in community, witnessing and…