In this mindfulness talk, we explore Buddha Nature, a core Buddhist teaching about understanding that the nature of our mind is luminous, pure, open, free. The work of the practice is to not try to achieve that state, but to remember, realize, come back to ourselves and this understanding. In a world where we are fed so many oppressive narratives that we are not good enough, where we have to constantly prove ourselves, what would it mean if we started realizing we are -- and always have been -- good enough? Join mindfulness teacher and writer Kim Thai for this liberating exploration of ourselves.
Please RSVP here. For those joining us in person, we will meet in Case Lounge. For those joining via Zoom, the live-stream can be accessed here.
Kim Thai (she/her) is a writer, Emmy-award winning producer, community organizer, and an educator of the heart. She is dedicated to rewriting the limiting narratives that we tell about ourselves and each other through mindfulness practices and sharing her own story as a first-gen Queer Asian woman. She is the founder of Joyful Liberation Collective, a grassroots community organization that creates liberatory spaces to transform oppression into personal joy, community care, and social awareness. She is a certified yoga and meditation teacher; a facilitator for the Trauma Resource Institute; and has developed social-emotional learning programs that have empowered more than 100 high school teachers across America to make their classrooms more curious, compassionate and courageous.
She is currently committed to the Bodhisattva path in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village tradition and was given the dharma name Ancestral River of the Heart to widen and deepen the insight from Buddhist teachings. Using meditation and contemplative practice as a vehicle, she is currently focused on sharing teachings on being your authentic self, how to be of service to others and tapping into the limitless capacity of the heart.
