Mar 08
Monday
Diversity Awareness in Shambhala
By Charlene Leung
Diversity awareness is about discovering the basic goodness of all. When we uncover our biases and habitual ways of relating to others, we loosen our hold on ego and open to other.
If we honestly examine the isms: racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism, able-bodied-ism, we can find deep pain that is actually part of the human condition. Softening and opening, we experience the tenderness and vulnerability that unites us as human beings. This is the ground of helping others, of creating enlightened society. Continue…
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