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Embracing Life As It Is

February 3 @ 4:00 pm 5:30 pm PST

Engaged Buddhism Speaker Series

Embracing Life As It Is

With Mitchell Ratner

In this 90-minute virtual workshop, you will have the opportunity to practice with friends around the world to:

  • Embrace Habit Energies: Learn to recognize, embrace, and transform your habit energies.
  • Discover Engaged Buddhism: Explore how mindfulness and compassion can inspire meaningful action in the world.
  • Live as an Engaged Practitioner: Cultivate a daily practice that integrates mindfulness, presence, and purposeful living.

We hope you will join us for this special virtual workshop and interview.

Monday, February 3, 2025

4:00pm 5:30pm
U.S. Pacific Standard Time

Held on Zoom


This workshop is a part of our ongoing Monthly Engaged Buddhism Series featuring Lay Dharma Teachers and Order of Interbeing (OI) Members in the Plum Village Tradition. This series is for mindfulness practitioners around the world who want to learn more about engaged practice and how to build service-based mindfulness communities. We hope you will join us.

About the Facilitator

Mitchell Ratner, True Mirror of Wisdom, has taught classes and workshops focused on integrating mindfulness meditation with work, meaningful relationships, and the challenges of everyday life since 1994. In 2001 he was ordained as a Dharma teacher by Thích Nhất Hạnh. He practices with the Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center and lives with his wife in Takoma Park, Maryland, US.

Articles by Mitchell Ratner:

The Spirit of Plum Village (Lion’s Roar Magazine, April 2022)

Walking in Thầy’s Footsteps (Mindfulness Bell 93, 2024) 

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