Book Launch – Healing Our Way Home: : Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation

Real talk on living joyfully and coming home to ourselves—with reflective self-care practices to help us on our interconnected journeys of liberation.

Join authors Marisela Gomez, MD and Kaira Jewel Lingo for a virtual book launch of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation on Wednesday, November 20. They will be sharing how the Dharma's timeless teachings support their work for social and racial equity and justice in their work and personal lives.

Event Details: 

Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Online via Zoom

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About Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation:

"This powerful trinity of Black authors invites us into the living room of their hearts, affirming who we are with earthy straight talk, textured diversity, and wise tenderness."—Ruth King

Join three friends, three Black women, all teachers in the Plum Village tradition founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, in intimate conversation, touching on the pain and beauty of their families of origin, relationships and loneliness, intimacy and sexuality, politics, popular culture, race, self-care and healing. No subject is out of bounds in this free-flowing, wide-ranging offering of mindful wisdom to nourish our sense of belonging and connection with ancestors.

Healing Our Way Home offers insights in embodied mindfulness practice to support us in healing white supremacy, internalized racial oppression, and social and cultural conditioning, leading to a firm sense of belonging and abiding joy.

Authors:

Valerie Brown, True Sangha Power (pronouns she/her), is a Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition, ordained in 2018, and a member of Religious Society of Friends. She transformed her twenty-year, high-pressure career as a lawyer-lobbyist into human-scale, social-equity-centered work, guiding leaders and organizations to foster greater understanding, authenticity, compassion, and trust.

Marisela B. Gomez, MD, True Manifestation of Reverence, is a co-founder of Village of Love and Resistance in Baltimore Maryland, organizing for power, healing and the reclamation of land. She is a meditation and Buddhist teacher, physician scientist, and holistic health practitioner. She lives in the lands previously stewarded by the Piscataway, Lumbi and other tribes, colonized as Baltimore Maryland in the USA. She is the author of Race, Class, Power and Organizing in East Baltimore along with other scholarly, political, and spiritual writings.

Kaira Jewel Lingo teaches Buddhist meditation, mindfulness, and compassion internationally, with a focus on activists, people of color, artists, educators, families, and youth. She began practicing mindfulness in 1997. An ordained nun of 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, she is now a lay Dharma teacher based in Washington, D.C., leading retreats in the U.S. and internationally, and offering mindfulness programs for educators and youth in schools, as well as individual spiritual mentoring. She edited Thich Nhat Hanh’s, Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children and helped to start and develop Wake Up Schools, cultivating mindfulness in education. She explores the interweaving of art, play, ecology and spiritual practice and is a certified yoga teacher and InterPlay leader. She teaches each year at Schumacher College, an ecological college in the United Kingdom. In addition to her roots in the Zen tradition, she also practices and teaches in the Insight tradition, and is an affiliate teacher for the Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC. She contributed a chapter to the forthcoming book, Real World Mindfulness for Beginners, from Callisto Press.

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