Kaira Jewel Lingo
Buddhist Dharma Teacher, Visit Kaira Jewel's Website Peace in the future is founded on peace in the present moment. The same is true of justice, and liberation. These are not things we have to wait for or strive to achieve in the future. We can nourish peace, justice and liberation in ourselves and in our communities now, through the practice of awareness in the present moment, and through building communities of resistance and love.
About this Teacher
Kaira Jewel Lingo teaches meditation and mindfulness 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 based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, leading retreats internationally, offering mindfulness programs for educators and organizations as well as individual spiritual mentoring. She edited Thich Nhat Hanh’s, Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children, as well as Together We Are One, Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings from the first people of color retreats. In addition to practicing in the Zen tradition, she practices and teaches in the Insight tradition and is a trainee in the 2020 Spirit Rock Teacher Training.