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“It is rather astonishing that the Black tradition of continuous and endless enlightenment in this country produces its prophets as if bad laws, discrimination, horrors of financial inequality and so on, do not exist to blight the way. No wonder one often imagines the ancestors laughing. This is a book to grow on, to deepen over, to partner with. We are on a magnificent journey of liberation, every moment we are alive in this odd place that has yet to awaken to itself. And we are always, generation to generation, ready to travel. How cool is this?” —Alice Walker, American novelist and poet “Radical Dharma is a clear, honest testimony of the heart from three provocative leaders of our time. You may not always see things just as they do (I didn’t) or even feel like you fully understand it all (again, I didn’t) but that makes it even more important to read.” —Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness “Radical Dharma is both radical … and courageous. The authors build upon the growing understanding of the connection between personal and societal liberation. Radical Dharma unflinchingly turns this lens to this most challenging and critical nexus of racism and white supremacy. We whites on a spiritual path are lovingly challenged to get our butts off the mat, understanding that our personal liberation is impossible while we unconsciously enjoy the privileges of our skin color. Those in pain and enraged from the brutalities of oppression are lovingly challenged to get that we will never create a liberated society without attending to our own liberation. This is not an ‘easy’ book. Just like a Zen koan, Radical Dharma asks provocative questions rather than prescriptive answers, questions that unsettle, questions that challenge some of our most precious assumptions. Through personal stories and dialogue, we are invited on a powerful journey of spiritual and political awakening. Take the invitation!” —Robert Gass, EdD, cofounder, Rockwood Leadership Institute and Social Transformation Project “This is a moving and crucial book for anyone interested in the flourishing of the dharma in the West. Read it, sit with it and then get off the cushion and do something radical to make a difference.” —Cheryl A. Giles, Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling at Harvard Divinity School, coeditor of The Arts of Contemplative Care: Pioneering Voices in Buddhist Chaplaincy and Pastoral Work, and Tibetan Buddhist practitioner “Radical Dharma is a powerful and vulnerable circle held by three Dharma practitioners who are people of color. It is a beautiful and rare invitation to listen to how each transformed their pain. Some of this is familiar: no one sees me because of my weight. And some of this, for white people, will be new: What does it look like to truly sit with the pain caused by racism in your body? Radical Dharma demands that we step into the circle and ask: How do we restore our humanity? How do we transform ourselves and the world? In this book, Rev. angel Kyodo williams has created a powerful circle of truth around race and reconciliation. Sit, participate, and be broken open and transformed. Understand how the system of racism has traumatized all of us and how we need to heal individually and collectively.” —Marianne Manilov, cofounder, Engage Network
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About the Author
Rev. angel Kyodo williams is an author, activist, master trainer, and founder of the Center for Transformative Change. Her critically acclaimed first book, Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, was hailed as "a classic" by Buddhist pioneer Jack Kornfield. Ordained as a Zen priest, she is one of the only two black women Zen "Senseis" or teachers. In 2011, Lama Rod Owens was authorized as a lama in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. He then moved to DC and ran his own center for over two years. Later, he returned to Boston to begin his divinity degree in Buddhist studies at Harvard Divinity School. Jasmine Syedullah holds a PhD in politics with a designated emphasis in feminist studies and history of consciousness from University of California, Santa Cruz, and a BA from Brown University in religious studies with a focus in Buddhist philosophy. Syedullah is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College.
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Product details
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books (June 14, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1623170982
ISBN-13: 978-1623170981
Product Dimensions:
5.6 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
42 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#18,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
In response to James K. Review, and how this book enlightened me:Respectfully, James, I feel you may have missed the point of the book. Maybe I’m wrong, but my felt sense about this book is, that it is an ON RAMP to beginning to have open discussions about what white people can do. It is up to white folks, like me, to DO THE WORK to UN LEARN our white supremacist ways.I understand this book to be urging that it is MY responsibility to begin the honest inner work on how my own racism affects me and the people I come in contact with. This racism that I, and I believe EVERY white person has is not by choice, I don't believe racism is inherent. Racism is so because of the social/political/economic white persons America that we live in. It is and has been easier for white folks to pretend like racism doesn’t even exist, it is easier for a white person to follow that story-line. But that story-line HAS to stop, for the sake of a healthy and sane environment.Out of respect for humanity, and out of respect for ourselves, it is the responsibility of all white folks to DO THE WORK! Figure out your own racist bias, and talk about it out loud with others! None of this is easy, and there are no easy answers. But the book is asking folks to take the first steps towards liberating ourselves from our own racist ties... the same ties that keep up bound in fear, and far from love and understanding.There aren’t solid “answersâ€â€¦ this is about a REVOLUTION of UNLEARNING decades of white supremacy. That doesn’t happen overnight, but it HAS to start somewhere! I believe that people of color are exhausted with trying to explain this to white folks who have no way of understanding their felt experience.A bunch of white folks made up the rules to disenfranchise and disengage people of color. Even if we weren’t part of making those rules, we have followed them blindly and have benefited from the comfort they offer. Finding solutions to changing attitudes and beliefs is up to white folks like me. I just don’t think this too should be put on the back of folks who are exhausted.To think that our sangha’s, and the way they have been and are organized don’t have everything to do with how people of color might not feel welcome in a predominantly white space is not realistic. The amazing authors of this book are Buddhists, sharing their most intimate selves as people of color in the world and in their own Buddhist communities.Buddhism in the West is part of a systematically deeply rooted white supremacist society. Buddhism doesn’t just get a “pass†because our lineages teach us about basic goodness in ALL sentient beings.I understand that you believe even your “whitest†sangha doesn’t try to exclude people of color, and in fact puts effort into being welcoming. I guess I am wondering how your white sangha KNOWS they are being welcoming to people of color? Has your group sat down and had disturbingly honest conversations with the folks of color you are welcoming? I’m guessing not, only because so very few people are having open dialog about race.To me, this is what this book is about. It is about disrupting the deeply rooted racist structures that keep people who are living as neighbors in a community where there are groups of “them†and “us†and “other.†To me, this book is about encouraging white folks to come into the reality of their privilege, to talk about their racism out loud with other white folks.The hatred, fear and violence isn’t going to stop until white folks, like me, stop being comfortable and start getting real. It is going to take 3million small steps by a couple million white people before we get to some kind of noticeable social justice for our neighbors who were not born into this privilege.You can start to take those steps RIGHT NOW! First by just making a commitment to respect yourself and other sentient beings enough to become educated on the United States TRUE history. Next step? Maybe go out of your comfort zone and sign up to take an Undoing Racism Workshop.This book has inspired and overwhelmed me. But this book made it clear to me that it is MY responsibility to figure this out. For me first, and with my other friends of privilege. It has also shown me that I can’t look for anyone to give me a point by point rule book, instead I’ll find my answers in my own felt experience of love.In Kindness,Mandi M. MillerMadison, WI
Several different perspectives are shared within this book. There are essays and discussions.I think this is a fairly positive book. It sees hope in the future of America even with the healing that the USA still needs to do with it's people.I had a bit of a hard time relating sometimes because I'm not as peaceable as the folks in this book. I feel the book would suggest self reflection on that. I struggled also with some of the spiritual components of this book. I don't consider myself to be a spiritual person and I'm an atheist. So, I was just along for the ride on some parts of the book.I like the focus on community and the focus on discussion and on self reflection and self care. But I felt that there was more of a need for direction for this book.Quotes:"The tiptoeing around race and other forms of difference as if in fear of waking a sleeping lion is one of the most subtly toxic attributes of whiteness in our culture right now." -Jasmine Syedullah"Love is the wish for myself and others to be happy. Love transcends our need to control the recipient of love. I love not because I need something in return. I love not because I want to be loved back, but because I see and understand love as being an expression of the spaciousness I experience when I am challenging my egoic fixation by thinking about the welfare of others. I go where I am loved. I go where I am allowed to express love. In loving, I have no expectations."-Lama Rod Owens"Predatory capitalist greed has deeply ingrained a self-worth confusion into our psyche We associate our value as human beings with our financial worth. Our relationships are governed by the shadow game of acquisition. We can never have enough. The result is a devastating disconnect to a felt sense of our experience." -Rev. angel Kyodo williamsIf this sounds like something you would enjoy reading check it out.
This book brings all practitioners into stark recognition of the fundamental dualism of racism, which we are steeped in by virtue of our culture and the systems created to sustain it. The authors open a path which supports both inner liberation and outer liberation, understanding Black liberation as part of the fundamental ground of our Dharma practice.Refusing an "us and them" paradigm, Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Sensei, and her co-authors are long-time committed practitioners who offer us all an incredible opportunity to move through to more authentic practice and connection. As a self-identified white practitioner of Buddhist meditation, Radical Dharma continually opens me to the constrictions that otherwise keep me separate. It challenges my attempts at perfectionistic performances of "goodness," and urges me toward true liberation rather than unwittingly imagining I can protect a corner of privilege while on an enlightening path. Radical Dharma encourages us all to move together toward collective liberation in an embodied, relational way, allowing the Dharma to penetrate us and offer it's healing potential for all. It is courageous, critical work. It offers us perhaps the most potent opportunity we have for the Buddha's Dharma to take root in the West, particularly in our country, because it wholeheartedly recognizes how split we are and have been.
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