Dharma teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo will lead a one-day sit featuring longer periods of sitting meditation and a dharma talk. The sit is open to all BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) practitioners. This is the perfect opportunity for newer practitioners to try longer sitting and to build BIPOC sangha (community), as well as for long-term practitioners to recommit to their practice.

Lunch will not be served. Participants are welcome to bring their own lunch or go out for lunch (there will be an ample break in the middle of the day.)

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

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.

Equitable Pricing Model

BZC is committed to offering classes, workshops, and retreats on a sliding scale in an aspiration to move towards equity within our sangha. To that end, we offer an equitable pricing model as a mindfulness practice and a mirror of our relations to histories of wealth. Please see the Equitable Pricing Model to determine your registration rate level.

No one is turned away for lack of funds. Please use this form if the pricing model doesn’t work for you.

The registration deadline is February 22.

Kaira Jewel Lingo is a senior Dharma teacher in the Plum Village Zen lineage and also teaches Vipassana in the Insight tradition. She is a member of the Plum Village North American Dharma Teachers’ Council of Elders and has been practicing mindfulness since 1997. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, shaped by her parents’ lives of service and her father’s work with Martin Luther King Jr. After 15 years as an ordained nun in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Kaira Jewel now teaches internationally, offering spiritual mentoring as well as meditation courses, retreats, and training. Her work integrates mindfulness with creative expression, social and racial justice, and care for the Earth, inviting deep presence, relational inquiry, and embodied wisdom as foundations for personal transformation and collective liberation. She is the 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.More information about her teachings and events can be found at www.kairajewel.com