Laghima

"air"

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

Guru Laghima was an Air Nomad guru and 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 from the earth and live the last forty years of his life without ever touching the ground.

Becoming untethered to the earth
Guru Laghima grew up at the Northern Air Temple, where he began writing poetry about subjects such as instinct and illusion. Although the details of Guru Laghima'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 years 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 Laghima 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 on what was immediately observable blinded oneself from the possibilities of something new coming to light. Zaheer recited an excerpt from this poem to several White Lotus sentries outside his cell prior to his escape. He also recited a similar piece of work to Ikki while on Air Temple Island after finding a locket bearing Laghima's image.

Trivia

 * Laghima is the first and only Air Nomad from the Northern Air Temple ever introduced in either series.
 * In yoga, "laghima" is a supernatural power attained through spiritual practice known as a siddhi. It specifically deals with becoming almost weightless, which corresponds to Guru Laghima's character as it is believed that he attained weightlessness prior to his death.