+angel Kyodo williams (zenchangeangel) WE should organize to see how we can bring up healing the rest of the African Descent community all over the world.
Thank you for your commitment and courage clarity and generosity to share and spur us to love completely - and the critical practice of attending to our internal worlds in order to save ourselves/ecology
Lovely! Thank you Rev for sharing your story and your blessings for liberation with all beings. Currently reading Black & Buddhist and this talk along with many others are really enriching the field of dharma available to nourish the awakening that calls to us all. Much love!
Ha Ha, she called her rakusu "my trusty bib." I always call mine "my bodhisattva bib" and add that is because when one takes/makes the bodhisattva vows, it becomes immediately apparent to us how much slobber and drool we create in our life being unable to live up to them from moment to moment.
I was taught labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of truth and they produce hateful prejudices in mens mind where truth is self cannot be
Saying "Simple, right???" reminds me of this Zen story. Old Master (Roshi) Bird’s Nest did meditation while sitting in a tree to keep awake. The local official of his province, Po Chu-i, came to see him. Po Chu-i was also well known for his poetry that frequently expressed his understanding of Buddhism. When Po Chu-i found Bird’s Nest Roshi in his tree, and asked him, ‘Oh, Bird’s Nest, you look very insecure up there.’ Bird’s Nest Roshi looked down at Po Chu-i and replied, “Oh Governor, you look very insecure down there.” As Po Chu-i knew the Buddhist teaching that all things are impermanent and he knew political position is among the most ephemeral of all, he was not offended. So he asked. “I beg you to tell me what is it that all the Buddhas taught?” Bird’s Nest Roshi replied by quoting from the Dhammapada: “Never do evil; Always do good; Keep your mind clear; Thus all the Buddhas taught.” Po Chu-i then said, “Always do good; never do evil; keep your mind clear-I knew that when I was three years old.” “Yes,” said Bird’s Nest Roshi, “A three-year-old child may know it, but even an eighty-year-old man has difficulty practicing it.”
"Liberation for all beings". Is this a fundamental principle to all Buddhists or a bodhisattva vow for an individual Buddhist ministry? Sanghas do not seem to reflect liberation for all. But are as cultural and racial and class oriented as any community.
By "whites" do you mean "non-black"? She actually mostly teaches in mostly english speaking communities that have buddhist or activist backgrounds so more blacks in the activist communities for sure. Your motivation is inferred to be antagonistic. The original meaning of Sangha was human beings getting together to repeat the suttas and meanings of buddhas teachings. "Liberation" is for the continuum that is you & me. Liberation is for the mind and heart. Every person in that crowd can be liberated, every being on earth can be liberated, every being in every planet can be liberated. Dedicating, all practice to liberate the mind of delusion and therefore free One Self from all greed hate and ignorance, to ALL SENTIENT BEINGS as to say generating strong wish to 1. Purify the mind of all defiled thought-forms that are the cause and condition of all suffering 2. Through all practices, generate the CONDITION for ALL OTHER BEINGS to attain their own liberation/Enlightenment. My sense the racial undertone of your textual voice. I'm triggered because i'm a black man who was raised with nothing but black/white talk and had to protect myself from the general quality of hate in these thought-forms.
"Just pull the sword from the shield and cut ..." hmm. I think that might have been a good opportunity to introduce the idea of "skillful means". ? Sounds like a lot of aggression or at least, certainly could lead to a big fat mess. Not sure what angel is really talking about to be honest? sorry.
Thank you Angel Kyodo Williams...you are a inspiration to many African American Buddhists
+angel Kyodo williams (zenchangeangel) WE should organize to see how we can bring up healing the rest of the African Descent community all over the world.
Thank you for your commitment and courage clarity and generosity to share and spur us to love completely - and the critical practice of attending to our internal worlds in order to save ourselves/ecology
Love it girl
Lovely! Thank you Rev for sharing your story and your blessings for liberation with all beings. Currently reading Black & Buddhist and this talk along with many others are really enriching the field of dharma available to nourish the awakening that calls to us all. Much love!
Ha Ha, she called her rakusu "my trusty bib." I always call mine "my bodhisattva bib" and add that is because when one takes/makes the bodhisattva vows, it becomes immediately apparent to us how much slobber and drool we create in our life being unable to live up to them from moment to moment.
I was taught labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of truth and they produce hateful prejudices in mens mind where truth is self cannot be
Tears streaming. Thank you with all my heart for this. 🙏🏻❤️🌈💜
Spectacular
“Feel yourself in yourself”
Buddha is the very people who became the untouchables. Adi Vasi. Muntu. Bantu. The source of the lightning.
Preach!
i dont care if Buddha was pink with purple stripes the truth have no label black white etc
right a person in denial would say that
The Dharma transcend race, because our issues are not race based.
@@sylvekl you didn't listen
Sadhu
So easy to understand. You Just Love says Ram Dass. Simple right???
Saying "Simple, right???" reminds me of this Zen story.
Old Master (Roshi) Bird’s Nest did meditation while sitting in a tree to keep awake. The local official of his province, Po Chu-i, came to see him. Po Chu-i was also well known for his poetry that frequently expressed his understanding of Buddhism. When Po Chu-i found Bird’s Nest Roshi in his tree, and asked him, ‘Oh, Bird’s Nest, you look very insecure up there.’
Bird’s Nest Roshi looked down at Po Chu-i and replied, “Oh Governor, you look very insecure down there.”
As Po Chu-i knew the Buddhist teaching that all things are impermanent and he knew political position is among the most ephemeral of all, he was not offended. So he asked. “I beg you to tell me what is it that all the Buddhas taught?”
Bird’s Nest Roshi replied by quoting from the Dhammapada: “Never do evil; Always do good; Keep your mind clear; Thus all the Buddhas taught.”
Po Chu-i then said, “Always do good; never do evil; keep your mind clear-I knew that when I was three years old.”
“Yes,” said Bird’s Nest Roshi, “A three-year-old child may know it, but even an eighty-year-old man has difficulty practicing it.”
I can not hear anything
I believe by evidence the Buddha was of African descent
can you give us some evidence of this?
Google
egglot12 check out Anthony Elmore that's all the evidence you need!
weak
how so?
"Liberation for all beings". Is this a fundamental principle to all Buddhists or a bodhisattva vow for an individual Buddhist ministry? Sanghas do not seem to reflect liberation for all. But are as cultural and racial and class oriented as any community.
If Angel finds herself teaching to only whites, is that liberation for all beings?
By "whites" do you mean "non-black"? She actually mostly teaches in mostly english speaking communities that have buddhist or activist backgrounds so more blacks in the activist communities for sure. Your motivation is inferred to be antagonistic. The original meaning of Sangha was human beings getting together to repeat the suttas and meanings of buddhas teachings. "Liberation" is for the continuum that is you & me. Liberation is for the mind and heart. Every person in that crowd can be liberated, every being on earth can be liberated, every being in every planet can be liberated. Dedicating, all practice to liberate the mind of delusion and therefore free One Self from all greed hate and ignorance, to ALL SENTIENT BEINGS as to say generating strong wish to 1. Purify the mind of all defiled thought-forms that are the cause and condition of all suffering 2. Through all practices, generate the CONDITION for ALL OTHER BEINGS to attain their own liberation/Enlightenment.
My sense the racial undertone of your textual voice. I'm triggered because i'm a black man who was raised with nothing but black/white talk and had to protect myself from the general quality of hate in these thought-forms.
Gabriel Buchanan your response is great.
The Buddha should have told Anunda to pipe down about women.
"Just pull the sword from the shield and cut ..." hmm. I think that might have been a good opportunity to introduce the idea of "skillful means". ? Sounds like a lot of aggression or at least, certainly could lead to a big fat mess. Not sure what angel is really talking about to be honest? sorry.
Beyond Buddhism? What a nonsensical title
Confusing mess.