Taking Refuge in Ourselves: Audio Dharma Offering by Guest Teacher, Kaira Jewel Lingo (5/9/2026)

About this episode

Kaira Jewel Lingo offers a dharma talk on grieving and self-reflection through meditation and shared practices.

Recorded on May 9, 2026, at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY This dharma offering by guest teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo addresses how grieving abides in the body and how taking refuge in ourselves offers healing and stability. Her offering includes a brief period of paired sharing, a guided meditation practice, a writing practice, a ceremony for holding grief together, and a dharma talk. The audio includes periods of unclear sound and silence. Time stamps are provided below. Kaira Jewel read the poem, “ After I Fell in the Canyon of Grief ,” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. The poem can be found here, on the the poet’s poetry blog: The poet’s website: https://www.wordwoman.com/ Time stamps 5:20 – 9:30: Paired sharing about “something tender or unfinished in your heart” 11:15 – 13:20: “After I Fell in the Canyon of Grief” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer 14:15 – 21:25: Guided meditation practice on finding places of support and grief in the body 21:25 – 25:00: Writing exercise, a sentence or phrase conveying a present grief 25:00 – 32:07: Holding the Grief Together ceremony, with choral harmonic humming and reading of phrases 32:07 – 54:32: Dharma Talk Kaira Jewel Lingo is a senior…

People in this episode

Host: Brooklyn Zen Center

Guest: Kaira Jewel Lingo

Topics covered

• grief
• meditation
• self-reflection
• healing
• dharma talk

Keywords

• grief
• meditation
• dharma
• healing
• self-reflection
• Kaira Jewel Lingo
• Brooklyn Zen Center

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: After I Fell in the Canyon of Grief

Places: Brooklyn, NY, Boundless Mind Temple

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