Dharma Offering

**POSTPONED** Saturday Morning Program with Kaira Jewel Lingo

November 2, 2024

9:00 AM - 12:40 PM

Location
Boundless Mind Temple
326 Clinton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
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Description

**This event has been postponed until the new year due to unforeseen circumstances**

Join us for our in-person Saturday morning program at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, which will include zazen instruction, embodied practices and a dharma talk by visiting teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo at 11:20 AM EST. Childcare will be available from 9 to 11:15 AM.

The talk will celebrate the new book Healing Our Way Home which will be available by donation.

The dharma talk will also be live-streamed. For security reasons, we do not post zoom links publicly. Please sign up to the BZC Mailing List to receive the log in information.

You are welcome to come to all or just part of the program schedule:

08:45 AM — Doors open
09:00 AM — Zazen instruction
09:25 AM — Han (wooden board calling people to meditation)
09:40 AM — Zazen (seated meditation)
10:10 AM — Relational practices from Healing Our Way Home with Kaira Jewel
11:20 AM — Dharma and book talk with Kaira Jewel
12:20 PM — Soji (temple cleaning practice) and book signing
12:40 PM — Tea (informal tea time)

 



Childcare at Boundless Mind Temple 

Every first Saturday of the month, childcare is provided by volunteer sangha members from 9 to 11:15 AM. Children will be located in the “tree room,” a few steps away from the zendo (meditation hall) and/or in the courtyard when the weather is warm. At 11:15, children will be allowed to enter the zendo during the dharma talk and service. Guardians are asked to bring whatever their child may need including diapers, wipes and snacks.

While drop-ins are welcome, it is really helpful for us to know, in advance, how many children to expect, so please complete this form so we can plan accordingly and have ample hands to care for your small being(s)!


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COVID Protocol: We ask that all participants be fully vaccinated and boosted. Masks are optional. Please see the BZC Covid Protocol for more.

Our Location: Boundless Mind Temple is located in the Parish House of Christ Church Cobble Hill, next to 326 Clinton Street. Enter the driveway on Clinton, go past the scaffolding, and through the double doors. There are two flights of stairs leading to the center, located on the second floor. The closest subway stop is the F/G at Bergen Street.

Instructor

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.

Fee
Free
Questions?
info@brooklynzen.org
We are in an historical building which is not wheelchair accessible. There are two flights of stairs leading to the center, located on the second floor. Chairs, benches, and extra support cushions are available. If you have any additional questions about accessibility, please contact us at info@brooklynzen.org.
**POSTPONED** Saturday Morning Program with Kaira Jewel Lingo
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