Wisdom Wednesday: “Being-Time: Inheritance of People and Place”

Wednesday, June 18th | 5:30–6:30 PM
Meditation begins at 5:30 pm MT, followed by the talk and discussion at 6:00 pm MT
For this Wisdom Wednesday, following an initial 20-minute sit, Mountain Cloud’s Executive Director Sarah Giffin will facilitate a community discussion around the concept of ancestry, including ancestors of the Dharma, family, and land, and how that relates to our acknowledgement of place and responsibility to our Tribal relatives. This is part of our ongoing unlearning and relearning as a sangha as it relates to land acknowledgements, Ecodharma, and solidarity with the Original Stewards of the land that Mountain Cloud now tends. You can read the current version of the land acknowledgement below or on our about page.
This hybrid event is free and registration is not required. Please arrive five to ten minutes ahead of the scheduled time.
To attend in person, please read and follow our COVID-19 Protocols for MCZC’s current policies on masks, vaccinations, and testing.
To participate online, please click on the zoom link below.
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Passcode: mountain22
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Mountain Cloud Zen Center Land Acknowledgement
Mountain Cloud is based in O’ga P’ogeh Owingeh (White Shell Water Place), the unceded ancestral lands of the Tewa people, colonized as Santa Fe, New Mexico. These buildings were built with the sands and soils of these arroyos. We share this space with the bobcat, coyote, juniper, raven, pinon, cholla, Steller’s Jay, ants, and so many more. O’ga P’ogeh has and continues to be home to many Tribal communities including the Tewa, Keres, and Towa Pueblos, and the Jicarilla Apache. The descendants of these communities live in O’ga P’ogeh and in surrounding present-day Pueblos of Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Ohkay Owingeh, Santa Clara and Tesuque (and others!).
Mountain Cloud honors and celebrates the excellence and wisdom of these neighbors, friends, and relatives, both past and present, who have stewarded this land for generations and continue to do so. We recognize the centuries of forced displacement, settler colonialism, violence, and attempted genocide that exist in the land, culture, and peoples here and the continued existence of this legacy in modern colonial systems. Mountain Cloud recognizes that we benefit from this legacy of violence and commit to building trust with our tribal neighbors, repairing harm, learning and unlearning, and centering the knowledge and expertise indigenous to this land, in the spirit of humility, compassion, and liberation.
This land is alive, our relationships are alive, and we acknowledge our connectedness and responsibility to healing and nurturing both. We commit in each moment to put this acknowledgement into action.
One way you can move this acknowledgement into action is by contributing to the O’ga P’ogeh Land Tax. Learn more: https://www.ogapogehlandtax.org/
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- Date
- June 18, 2025
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5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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