Spiritual Radicals: Saints and Bodhisattvas of the Beloved Community
A Speaker Series with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Father Adam Bucko
I am co-leading this with my partner, Father Adam Bucko, a Christian contemplative and an Episcopal priest.
We meet usually on the last or next-to-last Tuesdays of the month from 7:30 - 9:00pm ET.
Register Here for our session Tuesday, May 27
Dr. King As a Nonviolent Spiritual Radical with Kazu Haga
In a world filled with violence, division, and institutions and leaders who often seem untrustworthy, we are more in need than ever of signs and symbols to guide us. Our divisions and injustices cry out for transformation. What might a path toward the beloved community look like? Who would guide us, who would help us find the way?
This season, we’re launching a speaker series to explore these questions. Each event will include time for meditation and a speaker who will share about a saint or bodhisattva—figures who embody the values and aspirations of the beloved community. Some of these guides will come from Buddhist traditions, some from Christian, and some will transcend any single category. Our speakers, who have either studied directly with these figures or deeply engaged with their lives and teachings, will lead us in reflection. Our purpose in the series is how to befriend historical figures who can inspire our engaged spiritual journeys, especially in times that are difficult.
We invite you to join us on this journey into the heart of the beloved community. Together, we’ll explore how to process the challenges in our world and find ways forward—through actions, spiritual practices, and inner healing—so we may become a source of healing and hope for the world around us.
Registration will be through Zoom directly. You will receive the Zoom link from Zoom in the confirmation email. Please save this link as Zoom will NOT send you a reminder later.
(Each month you will need to register again to receive the Zoom link). Also please note that you need to register each month to receive the recording from the gathering, usually sent a week after the event. We record the teachings and meditations for registered participants.
Monthly gatherings are offered on a donation basis. All donations from our gatherings will go towards projects working to relieve suffering, help people flourish and support social change, as well as seed our new contemplative center, The Beloved Commmunity for Engaged Spirituality and Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery.
Tuesday, May 27
Dr. King As a Nonviolent Spiritual Radical with Kazu Haga
Kazu Haga a trainer, educator, student and practitioner with over 25 years of experience in nonviolence and restorative justice. He weaves in lessons from decades of Buddhist practice and trauma healing work to advance social change and collective healing.
He is a core member of the Fierce Vulnerability Network, a founding core member of the Ahimsa Collective, is a Jam facilitator and author of the book Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm as well as the upcoming book Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging from Collapse.
He teaches nonviolence, conflict reconciliation, restorative justice, organizing and mindfulness in prisons and jails, high schools, universities and youth groups, faith communities and activist movements around the country.
Kazu was introduced to the work of social change and nonviolence in 1998, when at the age of 17 he participated in the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage; a 6-month walking journey from Massachusetts to New Orleans to retrace the slave trade. He then spent a year studying nonviolence and Buddhism while living in monasteries throughout South Asia, and returned to the US at age 19 to begin a lifelong path in social justice work.
He spent 10 years working in social justice philanthropy, while directly being involved in and playing leading roles in many movements. He became an active nonviolence trainer in the global justice movement of the late 1990s, and has since led hundreds of workshops worldwide.
Kazu is an avid meditator, enjoys being in nature and loves food more than most people do. He is also a die-hard fan of the Boston Celtics.
He is a resident of the Canticle Farm community on Lisjan Ohlone land, Oakland, CA where he lives with his family. You can find out more about his work at www.kazuhaga.com.