EcoDharma exploration
Becoming a Force for Nature:
The EcoSattva Journey
This special monthly series of EcoDharma Explorations is offered in partnership with One Earth Sangha and Spirit Rock Meditation Center. A recording of the conversation will be provided for those who cannot attend the gathering.
Session Description:
Join Kaira Jewel Lingo for this very special EcoDharma Exploration. We’ll come together and launch into the latest edition of EcoSattva Training.
Life on Earth is really going through it right now. Humanity’s reckoning with itself is on, and we’re all feeling, albeit unequally, the very real and interlocking consequences of centuries of human and ecological exploitation.
To make a bad situation even worse, we also must contend with the unfolding chaos, injustice, violence, breakdowns, and instabilities of all orders and magnitudes across the globe. It’s a hard time. Many of us are trying our best. We work to increase our awareness of the massive systems of harm, connect with aligned others, and act courageously, and yet, here we are.
Where do we begin, again? In this EcoDharma Exploration, we’ll gather ourselves and our inner resources, gather each other and the resources we share, and reflect on our global situation. We’ll map out the EcoSattva journey, and how we might set the conditions for a compassionate transformation of the profound, collective suffering that characterizes our time into an empowered and courageous response.
About the Teacher:
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 Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, and activists, as well as 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 and co-author of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy and Liberation. Her upcoming events and teachings can be found at www.kairajewel.com.