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A review by babs5005
Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom by
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A very interesting read. Even though I’m neither black nor Buddhist, I really feel like I’ve learned a lot about the transformative effect practicing mindfulness can bring to induce healing.
Looking within to resolve generational trauma and internalized racism gives one the power to overcome actual racist people and events. I think if we all practiced mindfulness and meditated deeply, we would find out who we really are and racism would cease to exist.
While I am not religious, the essays in this book have inspired me to go and check out my local Buddhist temple to see about learning proper meditation techniques. I’m also still determined to go to Peru and take Ayahuasca with a Shaman.
In the essay, “The Dharma of Trauma” Lama Rod Owens’ description of his healing experience while on an Ayahuasca journey was riveting. His description of the healing hallucinations created by his mind were so vivid and moving, I actually got teary eyed while reading.
The essay, “Turning Toward Myself” by Sebene Selassie was also excellent. I felt her insight was particularly brilliant and it was also enjoyable to read.
“Belonging” by Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips was excellent and “From Butcher to Zen Priest” by Gyozan Royce Andrew Johnson was fun to read.
While all of the essays were good, those were my most favorite.
I’m really glad I read this book, though it did take longer to read than I thought it would. The book took me a while to read not because it was particularly long, but because it was dense in information and thought provoking.
I do very much know now that meditation is our key to freedom and the way to transform wrong thinking. I’m excited to begin a journey that will make me more aware of who I am as an individual, dissolving wrong thinking and old programming to learn to know myself for who I AM and how I fit in with the collective whole that is ALL THAT IS.
Looking within to resolve generational trauma and internalized racism gives one the power to overcome actual racist people and events. I think if we all practiced mindfulness and meditated deeply, we would find out who we really are and racism would cease to exist.
While I am not religious, the essays in this book have inspired me to go and check out my local Buddhist temple to see about learning proper meditation techniques. I’m also still determined to go to Peru and take Ayahuasca with a Shaman.
In the essay, “The Dharma of Trauma” Lama Rod Owens’ description of his healing experience while on an Ayahuasca journey was riveting. His description of the healing hallucinations created by his mind were so vivid and moving, I actually got teary eyed while reading.
The essay, “Turning Toward Myself” by Sebene Selassie was also excellent. I felt her insight was particularly brilliant and it was also enjoyable to read.
“Belonging” by Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips was excellent and “From Butcher to Zen Priest” by Gyozan Royce Andrew Johnson was fun to read.
While all of the essays were good, those were my most favorite.
I’m really glad I read this book, though it did take longer to read than I thought it would. The book took me a while to read not because it was particularly long, but because it was dense in information and thought provoking.
I do very much know now that meditation is our key to freedom and the way to transform wrong thinking. I’m excited to begin a journey that will make me more aware of who I am as an individual, dissolving wrong thinking and old programming to learn to know myself for who I AM and how I fit in with the collective whole that is ALL THAT IS.