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Paths of Practice: Conversations on Journeys into BuddhismPaths of Practice with Kaira Jewel LingoKaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher with a lifelong interest in blending spirituality and meditation with social justice. Having grown up in an ecumenical Christian community where families practiced a new kind of monasticism and worked with the poor, at the age of twenty-five she entered a Buddhist monastery in the Plum Village tradition and spent fifteen years living as a nun under the guidance of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She received Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh and became a Zen teacher in 2007, and is also a teacher in the Vipassana Insight lineage through Spirit Rock...2025-04-0448 min
Opening Minds, Opening HeartsS3 EP7: Interbeing as a Path to Collective Awakening and Social Engagement with Kaira Jewel LingoWe’re back again and excited to be having a conversation with Kaira Jewel Lingo in this episode. Kaira is a Dharma teacher and mindfulness practitioner with a lifelong interest in spirituality and social justice. She works in Engaged Buddhism, which was developed by one of her teachers, Thich Nhat Hanh, and draws a lot of her experience from her parents' lives of service, in particular, her dad's work with Martin Luther King Jr. She lived as an ordained nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh's monastic community and is now based in New York with her partner, Fr. Adam Bu...2025-02-0939 min
Everything Belongs: Living the Teachings of Richard Rohr ForwardThe Integration of the Negative with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Adam BuckoHow can we stay open to, and perhaps even become curious about, our rough edges?Today we delve further into the themes of Richard Rohr's book, 'Eager to Love,' focusing on the integration of the negative and the spirituality of imperfection. We're joined by very special guests Adam Bucko and Kaira Jewel Lingo, who share personal stories of their encounters with St. Francis and discuss the value of suffering, the Bodhisattva path, and the importance of accepting one's imperfections as a means to spiritual growth. Both share stories about the importance of feedback within community settings...2025-01-101h 26
Living Mirrors with Dr. James CookeKaira Jewel Lingo on Engaged Buddhism & monastic life at Plum Village | Living Mirrors #135Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher whose work focuses on the interaction of meditation and social justice. She spent fifteen years living as a nun in a Buddhist monastery in the Plum Village tradition, under the guidance of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2007 she became a Zen teacher after receiving Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh, and is also a teacher in the Vipassana Insight lineage through Spirit Rock Meditation Center in the US. She is the author of We Were Made for These Times: Skilfully Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption, the co-author of Healing Our Way H...2024-11-2055 min
10% Happier with Dan HarrisAn Episode For The Over-Thinkers and The Stressed | Matthew Brensilver, Vinny Ferraro, Kaira Jewel LingoNew episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. A crucial (and often misunderstood) concept in Buddhism: letting go. For this episode, Executive Producer DJ Cashmere interviewed a trio of brilliant Dharma teachers to get their advice about how to handle surrendering or letting go. This is the fourth in a series of 'correspondent' episodes, in which DJ identifies a pain point in his life and meditation practice, then goes out into the world to report on the best ways to address it. 2024-11-061h 07
10% Happier with Dan HarrisThe Hidden Secret To Smarter Decision-Making, Better, Relationships, And Lower Stress | Matthew Brensilver, Vinny Ferraro, Kaira Jewel LingoNew episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- The Buddhist case — and toolkit — for “don’t-know mind.” For this episode, Executive Producer DJ Cashmere interviewed a trio of brilliant Dharma teachers to get their advice about how to handle being wrong. This is the third in a series of 'correspondent' episodes, in which DJ identifies a pain point in his life and meditation practice, then goes out into the world to report on the best ways to address it. ...2024-10-231h 03
10% Happier with Dan HarrisWhat To Do When When Someone’s Pissed At You | Matthew Brensilver, Vinny Ferraro, Kaira Jewel LingoNew episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- How to handle other people's anger—and the anger that their anger might trigger in you. For this episode, Executive Producer DJ Cashmere interviewed a trio of brilliant Dharma teachers to get their advice about how to handle anger. This is the second in a series of 'correspondent' episodes, in which DJ identifies a pain point in his life and meditation practice, then goes out into the world to report on the best ways to...2024-10-091h 08
10% Happier with Dan HarrisSix Buddhist Practices To Stay Calm In A Tumultuous World | Kaira Jewel Lingo, Valerie Brown and Marisela GomezNew episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- This stuff can be done by anyone, anywhere, anytime. Kaira Jewel Lingo, a frequent flier on this show, was an ordained Buddhist nun for 15 years. Now she lives in New York, writes books, and teaches meditation all over the world. Valerie Brown is a former lawyer and lobbyist who traded in her high-pressure job to teach the dharma. She also works as an executive coach. And Marisela Gomez is a physician, public health scholar...2024-10-0254 min
10% Happier with Dan HarrisWhat To Do When You’re Angry | Matthew Brensilver, Vinny Ferraro, Kaira Jewel LingoNew episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- A deep dive on one of the thorniest and most destructive states of mind. For this episode, Executive Producer DJ Cashmere interviewed a trio of brilliant Dharma teachers to get their advice about how to handle anger. This is the first in a series of 'correspondent' episodes, in which DJ identifies a pain point in his life and meditation practice, then goes out into the world to report on the best ways to address...2024-09-251h 12
10% Happier with Dan HarrisA Buddhist Recipe for Handling Turmoil | Kaira Jewel LingoNew episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. We all know that change is inevitable and impermanence is non-negotiable. But somehow it can feel surprising, maybe even wrong, when we personally hit turbulence. The Buddha had a lot to say about this, and so does our guest. Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher who has a lifelong interest in blending spirituality and meditation with social justice. Having grown up in an ecumenical Christian community where families practiced a new kind o...2024-08-2849 min
The Courageous LifePracticing Courage #35: Relaxing into uncertainty - a superpower for our timeThe blank canvas.The blank page.The big questions:What’s next in my life?What do I want to do for work? How do I want to live?These are familiar moments and seasons of life marked by the unknown.Often filled with feelings of uncertainty, what’s beautiful about these moments, and these seasons is that They are an invitation into creativity.But there’s a catch.To accept the invitation we often need to be able to practice opening. ...2024-07-2512 minThe Courageous LifeLessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption | Kaira Jewel LingoKaira Jewel Lingo is a mindfulness and meditation teacher with a lifelong interest in blending spirituality and meditation with social justice.She spent her formative years growing up in an ecumenical Christian community where families practiced a new kind of monasticism and worked with the poor.When she turned 25 she entered a Buddhist monastery and spent fifteen years living as a nun under the guidance of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Today she sees her work teaching Buddhist meditation, mindfulness, and compassion, as a continuation of the Engaged Buddhism she learned from Thich...2024-07-2442 min
What Do You Mean By That?249: Healing Our Way Home In the five-plus years of the podcast, I’d say that we have spent a LOT of time on various “hot button” issues - I mean, we live quite squarely in the ones that surround race and identity, wouldn’t you say? - but one of the facets of identity that we don’t often explore is that of religion. Not because we don’t want to talk about it, but a lot of times the opportunity doesn’t really present itself. That’s why we were so excited to talk to one of the authors of Healing Our Way...2024-07-0234 min
Spirit MattersAdapting Buddhism To a Secular, Pluralistic America With Kaira Jewel LingoKaira Jewel Lingo lived for 15 years as an ordained nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Plum Village. She now teaches internationally in the Zen and Vipassana traditions, as well as in a secular mindfulness context. Her work is at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice with a focus on activists, black, indigenous, and people of color, as well as artists, educators, families, and youth. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, interweaving nature, ecology, embodied mindfulness practice, art and play. She draws inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and...2024-06-241h 03
10% Happier with Dan HarrisThe Buddhist Case For Laziness (And How It Can Make You More Productive) | Brother Chân Pháp HữuNew episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- What if one of the often overlooked keys to being productive is being lazy? That’s the case you will hear made today by Brother Pháp Hữu, a very impressive young zen Buddhist monk. Brother Pháp Hữu is a senior Dharma teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh’s International Plum Village Community and abbot of Upper Hamlet, the monks’ community in Plum Village Monastery, a practice center founded by Thich Nhat Hanh in sout...2024-06-171h 03
Mindfulness Meditation PodcastMindfulness Meditation with Kaira Jewel Lingo 05/30/2024Theme: Balance Artwork: Machik Labdron; Kham Province, eastern Tibet; 19th century; pigments on cloth; Rubin Museum of Art; Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin;http://therubin.org/38iTeacher: Kaira Jewel LingoThe Rubin Museum of Art presents a weekly meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is recorded in front of a live audience, and includes an opening talk, a 20-minute sitting session, and a closing discussion.The guided meditation...2024-06-0743 min
Tricycle TalksCalling on Our Ancestors with Kaira Jewel LingoWhen she was just 11 years old, Kaira Jewel Lingo already knew that she wanted to be a nun. Fourteen years later, she ordained in the Plum Village tradition, where she trained closely with her teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, for fifteen years. In her new book, Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation, which she co-wrote with Valerie Brown and Marisela B. Gomez, Lingo reflects on her own spiritual path and explores how embodied mindfulness practice can support us in coming home to ourselves.In this episode of Life As It Is, Tricycle’s...2024-05-1554 min
The Spiritual ForumBlack Buddhist Teaching with Kaira Jewel Lingo - EP 254Join us for an inspiring conversation with Kaira Jewel Lingo, a Dharma teacher continuing the legacy of engaged Buddhism pioneered by Thich Nhat Hanh. After 15 years as an ordained nun in Thich Nhat Hanh's monastic community of Plum Village, Kaira now shares her wisdom internationally, blending Zen and Vipassana traditions with a focus on BIPOC communities, activists, artists, educators, families, and youth. In this episode we traverse the themes of answering the spiritual call, discerning ends and beginnings, being in service to others, the experience of interconnectedness, and much more. 🧘
Kaira Jewel Lingo Bio : Kaira Jewel Lingo is...2024-04-0951 min
This Needs To Be Said...This Needs To Be Read-Healing Our Way HomeMrs. TNTBS Hosts This Needs To Be Read with one of the authors, Valerie Brown about their new book - HEALING OUR WAY HOME - join 3 Black female authors in an intimate discussion of their path to self-care. They live life using the teachings from the late Zen Master who Martin Luther King, Jr. called: “an Apostle of peace and nonviolence” when nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize. His name is: Zen Master Thich Nhat Han (pronounced: Tik Not Han).
These authors offer up real talk on living joyfully - with reflective self-care practices including...2024-03-1212 min
Kaira Jewel Lingo's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Kaira Jewel Lingo: Justice is What Love Looks Like in Public: Honoring Dr. King and Cultivating Bodhicitta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with Al Lingo, Kaira Jewel Lingo's dad telling stories of his time in the Civil Rights Movement working with Dr. King and then explore the importance of cultivating our hearts and minds to be able to support justice in the world, and also the importance of cultivating bodhicitta. We end with Dr. King's words condemning the war in Vietnam and the damaging effect of militarism on our collective health, and our current bloated military budget.2024-01-1559 minKaira Jewel Lingo's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Beth Sternlieb, Donald Rothberg, Gullu Singh, Jonathan Relucio, Kaira Jewel Lingo: Opening of Metta Retreat and Introduction to Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this Opening talk, the teachers offer a land acknowledgement, introduce themselves, and Kaira Jewel gives a short talk on what metta is, how to practice metta and how we can take refuge in the retreat container.2024-01-101h 33
Donald Rothberg's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Beth Sternlieb, Donald Rothberg, Gullu Singh, Jonathan Relucio, Kaira Jewel Lingo: Opening of Metta Retreat and Introduction to Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this Opening talk, the teachers offer a land acknowledgement, introduce themselves, and Kaira Jewel gives a short talk on what metta is, how to practice metta and how we can take refuge in the retreat container.2024-01-101h 33Donald Rothberg's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)Beth Sternlieb, Donald Rothberg, Gullu Singh, Jonathan Relucio, Kaira Jewel Lingo: Opening of Metta Retreat and Introduction to Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this Opening talk, the teachers offer a land acknowledgement, introduce themselves, and Kaira Jewel gives a short talk on what metta is, how to practice metta and how we can take refuge in the retreat container.2024-01-101h 33
Gullu Singh's most recent Dharma talks (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)Beth Sternlieb, Donald Rothberg, Gullu Singh, Jonathan Relucio, Kaira Jewel Lingo: Opening of Metta Retreat and Introduction to Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this Opening talk, the teachers offer a land acknowledgement, introduce themselves, and Kaira Jewel gives a short talk on what metta is, how to practice metta and how we can take refuge in the retreat container.2024-01-101h 33
Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck with David NichternEp. 47 – We Were Made for These Times with Kaira Jewel LingoMindfulness teacher, Kaira Jewel Lingo, chats with David Nichtern about the power of spiritual community and self-assessment.Today's podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenowIn this episode, David and Kaira discuss:The practice of sharing appreciations and regretsCommunity support within nunneries and monasteriesCo-regulating the nervous system to mitigate conflictSocial change and recognizing our shared humanityDoing the inner work to have a bigger impact on the worldLiving simply and being aligned with our purposeUsing resources to build a better futureNeuroscience & B...2023-11-091h 01
10% Happier with Dan Harris3 Buddhist Strategies for When the News is Overwhelming | Kaira Jewel LingoA former nun explains how to deal with doom-scrolling, despair, and rage in the face of world events. Kaira Jewel Lingo spent fifteen years as a monastic in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition. She is now a lay dharma teacher and is the author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption. In this episode we talk about: How to stop doom-scrolling and what to do instead Why it’s more important, not less, to take care of your...2023-11-0342 min
Mindfulness Meditation PodcastMindfulness Meditation with Kaira Jewel Lingo 10/05/2023Theme: Liberation Artwork: Tantric Dagger; Tibet; ca. 17th century; iron and gilt brass; Rubin Museum of Art;http://therubin.org/37dTeacher: Kaira Jewel Lingo The Rubin Museum of Art presents a weekly meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is recorded in front of a live audience, and includes an opening talk, a 20-minute sitting session, and a closing discussion.This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers f...2023-10-1329 min
Zen Habits PodcastS1 Bonus Interview: Kaira Jewel Lingo, of Thich Nhat Hanh's Monastery, on UncertaintyKaira Jewel Lingo was a nun in Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village monastery for 15 years, a leader in his mindfulness retreats and programs, helped edit some of his bestselling books. Then she decided to leave monastic life, and go into the uncertainty of what to do next. She wrote a beautiful book called, "We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption."Topics covered:Kaira Jewel’s passions for building communities and spaces for self-discovery, along with eco-dharma — exploring how spirituality can address environmental crisesThe benefits of holding meditation retreats outd...2023-08-1947 min
Two Minds Different Times#5: Favourite Books and Their Key MessagesWhere do you find new perspectives? How do you change your mindset? What method do you use for learning new things?
Join us for a fascinating discussion 😍 around these topics as we discuss some of our favourite books and their key messages:
finding a home within yourself
making the best out of our lives in the current moment
learning that emotions are data
discovering the inner athlete
listening to our instincts
We’d love to hear what your life-changing reads have been! And which of these...2023-05-1430 min
Mindfulness Meditation PodcastMindfulness Meditation with Kaira Jewel Lingo 03/30/2023Theme: Unity Artwork: Buddha Shakyamuni; Tibet; 18th century; pigment on cloth; Rubin Museum of Art; Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin;http://therubin.org/36j Teacher: Kaira Jewel LingThe Rubin Museum of Art presents a weekly meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is recorded in front of a live audience, and includes an opening talk, a 20-minute sitting session, and a closing discussion. The guided meditation begins at 20:58. This meditation i...2023-04-0730 minKaira Jewel Lingo's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Kaira Jewel Lingo: How to See the Big Picture when Times are Tough(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes a meditation & dharma talk (the participant Q/A has been removed)2023-03-221h 19
The Wake Up London Podcast (Part of The Plum Village Tradition)Being Peace Part 1 (Episode #9)Welcome to Episode 9, Being Peace Part 1.This episode looks ahead to the prospective UK Plum Village Practice Centre - beginning with the Fundraiser Launch on March 26thWe have a long conversation with Kasia from Wake Up London and Communications at Plum Village UK about her experience of arriving at Wake Up London, dance and mindfulness and her role at Plum Village UK - which at the moment is helping prepare for the Fundraiser.Short sharings in this episode about Sangha come from 2 of our presenters for the launch: Rehena Harilall and Monica...2023-03-1648 min
Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & PractitionersUnmasked When We Are Together with Sister PeaceSISTER PEACE spent five years in government work before realizing that something was missing. Feeling spiritually bereft, she began practicing at the Washington Mindfulness Community where she encountered the teachings of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Compelled by his teachings, she relocated in 2006 to the Plum Village Monastery in France to deepen her mindfulness practice and where she was ordained a Buddhist nun in 2008, and received the Dharma Lamp Transmission in 2017.She has dedicated her life to bringing the practice of mindfulness to people around the world –from educators and teenagers to artists and...2023-03-0732 min
Encountering SilenceKaira Jewel Lingo: We Were Made for These TimesA conversation with Buddhist author and former nun Kaira Jewel Lingo.2023-03-0656 minKaira Jewel Lingo's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Kaira Jewel Lingo: Teaching and meditation instructions on compassion(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Deep listening, as a practice of compassion, fierce, compassion, and a chant invoking the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokitesvara2023-02-2748 minKaira Jewel Lingo's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Kaira Jewel Lingo: Renouncing technology ceremony, and meditation instructions on three anchors(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploration of the three anchors – mindfulness of sound, body sensation, and breathing2023-02-251h 02Kaira Jewel Lingo's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Kaira Jewel Lingo: Equanimity and inclusiveness in a time of poly crisis(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of the liberating qualities of equanimity that allow us not to take sides, let go of enmity and touch peace2023-02-2447 min
Spring Creek PodcastInner Nature: Kaira Jewel Lingo and Kritee Kanko, Part 2In the second episode of Inner Nature, which is part 2 of a 2-part conversation, Kritee Kanko and Kaira Jewel Lingo highlight the importance of creating small, local communities for processing grief and anger, practicing mindfulness, and taking climate action. The conversation also invites a broader perspective on the environmental crisis, as they discuss climate breakdown in terms of its spiritual and social causes, such as trauma, dominance, and oppression. Kaira and Kritee leave us with hopeful guidance around meeting overwhelm and anger with wisdom, creativity, imagination, and love. Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher who has...2023-02-0836 min
Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & PractitionersLoving Our Skin: Farewell & Meditation with Kaira Jewel LingoIn the meditation, Kaira Jewel Lingo refers to the Garrison BIPOC meditation sangha which meets every Thursday at noon, run by her and Marisela Gomez. Order my book, We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons on Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption Order from Indie Bound or BookshopTo stay in touch and learn about my upcoming mindfulness teaching and events, please sign up for my e-newsletter here.My article in Lion's Roar: How Equanimity Powers LoveConnect with me:at kairajewel.com2023-01-1736 minSpring Creek PodcastInner Nature: Kaira Jewel Lingo and Kritee Kanko, Part 1In the first episode of Inner Nature, which is part 1 of a 2-part conversation, Kritee Kanko and Kaira Jewel Lingo set a foundation for understanding the mutuality and reciprocity of contemplative practice and environmental action. They invite us to consider many questions: How might we meet and hold personal and collective grief, anger, and trauma? How can we deepen our sense of “interbeing,” or interdependence? And how do we summon the courage to question the status quo, and build the wisdom to respond with a clear, sacred “no,” as is necessary, to protect one another and our planet? This conversa...2023-01-1155 min
Mindfulness Meditation PodcastMindfulness Meditation with Kaira Jewel Lingo 12/19/2022Theme: Gratitude Artwork: Prayer Beads; Tibet; 19th century; Turquoise, bone, and silver; Rubin Museum of Art, Gift of Anne Breckenridge Dorsey; C2012.6.13;http://therubin.org/366Teacher: Kaira Jewel LingoThe Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 19:12. This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, t...2022-12-2338 minOpening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & PractitionersBeing Love with Lama YesheA guided meditation invoking creative imagination to cultivate familiarity with our innate quality of being love within a space of active repose. Led by Lama Yeshe.LAMA KARMA YESHE CHÖDRÖN is a scholar, teacher, and translator of Tibetan Buddhism at Rigpe Dorje Institute at Pullahari Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal and co-founder of Prajna Fire.HOST LAMA KARMA YESHE CHÖDRÖN is a scholar, teacher, and translator of Tibetan Buddhism at Rigpe Dorje Institute at Pullahari Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal and co-founder of Prajna Fire.2022-12-2030 min
Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & PractitionersReflecting on 2022 and Transitioning to 2023Tune in as Rev. Liên and Lama Yeshe share a lively discussion of their experiences with Opening Dharma Access during 2022. They also bid farewell to Kaira Jewel Lingo as she transtions from Opening Dharma Access to other Dharma activities.Rev. Liên Shutt can be reached at: AccessToZen.orgLearn more about Kaira Jewel Lingo and her Dharma Offerings at kairajewel.com to learn more about her Dharma offerings. Lama Karma Yeshe Chödrön shares the Dharma through the Prajn...2022-12-0637 min
A long way from the blockEp. 60-"How can I reach the part of them that wants to awaken?"—my conversation with Dharma teacher Kaira Jewel LingoIn this episode, I sit down with Kaira Jewel Lingo to talk about her dedicated interweaving of mindfulness and social justice. She reflects on the influence of her parents, a black mom from Chicago's westside and a white dad from southern Texas who worked in the Civil Rights movement. She shares about her childhood years in Kenya, including the experience of living simply and how that's shaped her life as an adult. Finally, we discuss her journey meeting Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and becoming a nun. She now lives as a lay teacher of Buddhism. EARLY L...2022-11-2151 min