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

Join Marisela Gomez and Kaira Jewel Lingo in a virtual book launch for their recently released book, Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation. They will discuss how Buddhist practice supports their work for social and racial equity and justice in their professional and personal lives.

Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EST
Online via Zoom – REGISTER HERE

In Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation, join three friends, three Black women, all teachers in the Plum Village tradition founded by Thích Nhất Hạnh, 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. Healing Our Way Home offers insights in embodied mindfulness practice to support readers working to heal white supremacy, internalized racial oppression, and other aspects of social and cultural conditioning, leading to a firm sense of belonging and abiding joy.

If you would like to purchase Healing Our Way Home, use discount code U0T20 for 20% off the ebook version or printed copy at Parallax Press.

Meet the authors

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 Thích Nhất Hạnh’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.

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.