Online: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation
with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Marisela Gomez
Thursday, December 12, 2024 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm ET
Buddhist teachers Kaira Jewel Lingo and Marisela Gomez began their journeys separately in the Plum Village tradition founded by Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh. Through their practice, they each came to touch into the pain and beauty of their families of origin, relationships, sexuality, politics, race, and healing.
In this two-hour evening event Marisela and Kaira Jewel will talk about their experiences as Black women and Buddhists, and share wisdom from their new book, Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation.
Join these dharma teachers and spiritual friends to learn about how the dharma’s teachings can support the work toward social, racial, and environmental justice.
Together, we’ll learn embodied mindfulness practices and other techniques to help us lean into our individual and collective liberation, as well as our sense of belonging and joy.
Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of experience with meditation or Buddhism.
Registration:
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Volunteering
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Teacher(s)
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher with a lifelong interest in spirituality and social justice. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, and she draws inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King, Jr. After living as an ordained nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Kaira Jewel now teaches internationally in the Zen lineage and the Vipassana tradition, as well as in secular mindfulness, at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice with a focus on activists, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, artists, educators, families, and youth. Based in New York, she offers spiritual mentoring to groups and is author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption from Parallax Press. Her teachings and writings can be found at www.kairajewel.com.
Marisela B. Gomez
Marisela B. Gomez (she/they) is a dharma teacher in the Thich Nhat Hanh Order of Interbeing, and a dharma practitioner for more than 20 years. Her practice focuses on mindfulness in everyday life. This includes her work as a public health scholar, activist, physician, and solidarity economy organizer. Of Afro-Latina ancestry, they live in Baltimore. She co-authored the book Healing our Way Home and authored Race, Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore as well as numerous book chapters, and articles in popular and scholarly publications. She has blogged on the intersection of spirituality and justice at Huff Post and on the intersection of community rebuilding, wisdom justice and health at mariselabgomez.com. They’ve also delivered a TedTalk on healing racism through “waking up.”