Laghima

"air"

- Instinct is a lie Told by a fearful body Hoping to be wrong.

Guru Lahima was an Air Nomad guru and a renowned poet who lived at the Northern Air Temple around 3,829 BG. It is believed that he discovered the secret to weightlessness which allowed him to become untethered to the earth and live the last forty years of his life without ever touching the ground.

Becoming untethered to the earth
Guru Lahima grew at the Northern Air Temple, where he began writing poetry about subjects such as instinct and illusion. Although the details of Guru Lahima's life have become unclear in the face of the disappearance of Air Nomad culture from public knowledge, it is believed that he discovered the secret to weightlessness forty prior to his death. This revelation allowed him to live the last portion of his life untethered to the earth.

Legacy
During his lifetime, Guru Lahima became a renowned poet with writing so influential that it survived the Hundred Year War. Although his achievements have been dismissed as children's stories, his literature profoundly impacted Zaheer who used his poem about the false nature of instinct to realize that basing expectations of reality based on what was immediately observable blinded one's self from the possibilities of something new coming to light. Zaheer recited an excerpt of this poem to White Lotus sentries outside his cell shortly prior to escaping.