![]() ![]() Money is an illusion, but that doesn’t stop us from paying our rent each month. But as I’m fond of telling my students, just because life is an illusion that doesn’t stop it from being real. The work of developing ColorInsight is multidimensional.Outside of the super-progressive Dharma practiced in places like New York and California, it’s very en vogue to claim that race and gender are illusions that have nothing to do with Buddhist practice. We all have a racialized identity, which impacts our social lives, the resources, experiences, and opportunities that shape our lives. Some of us have experienced racism in deeply personal ways, while others have experienced it only rarely. While all of us need support in doing the work of racial justice, the specifics of that work will differ for each of us. We must find ways to talk with one another across these lines of constructed differences if we are to have any hope of resolving and dissolving those differences. We live in a world especially polarized by race and racism. It is a form of an ethically grounded, mindful response to suffering in our lives. Racial justice is about taking actions against racism and in favor of liberation, inspired by love of all humanity. ![]() Mindfulness helps us understand and expand our notions of self, but many practitioners have been taught that looking at race and racism is against the core commitments of mindfulness. The racialized self is produced by and helps perpetuate racism in our cultures. This helps you focus your attention at will, clarify your mind, and minimize any trauma-based reactions in your body. It is simply stopping what you are doing and intentionally directing your attention to the present moment. The Pause is an aspect of the practice of mindfulness meditation that can lead you to the experience of body-based mindfulness. ![]() I learned that summer that racism is a deep and pervasive cultural conditioning that groups people into categories and places them at a distance to obscure our intertwined destinies. I learned that the war to end white supremacy had not ended, and that it would only take a moment of judgment based on character instead of color for people to start seeing each other as unlovable. It is not natural or biological, but it is a result of the social construction of racialized bodies, which is to say, the idea and practice of people being assigned racial labels that sit in a relative hierarchy of worth. Racism is a complex of behavior and explanatory stories that allows some people to assert power over others. They were willing to throw their own son out of their home and onto the streets like garbage to teach him and others a lesson about what must never come of having been the first generation in his family to go to a racially integrated school. We started dating, and his family rejected me because of my race. Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 1 #4 I learned that summer that racism is a deep and pervasive cultural conditioning that groups people into categories and places them at a distance to obscure our intertwined destinies. #3 I learned that the war to end white supremacy had not ended, and that it would only take a moment of judgment based on character instead of color for people to start seeing each other as unlovable. #2 Racism is a complex of behavior and explanatory stories that allows some people to assert power over others. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. ![]()
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