I was there in person, and just got home and started to rewatch and listen. What a gift, salve, invitation, and portal this is. What a blue-print to wading through these untenable times with such clarity. Where we find our home in radical community. How we need to walk each other to our spiritual deaths, where we let go of the death making machines of white-supremancy, settler-colonial, and racial capitalism and let it die. Because our lives, and living through polycrisis watching these systems let people die because of being too poor, too melanated, too mentally ill, too disabled, too non-christian, too queer, too trans, too immigrant, too indigenous, too anyone who has been deemed unworthy of dignity and preciousness we all have a right to. These are some dark days, and we will be in juicy community with resistance, joy, and practice towards liberation together!
If you haven't seen Angela Davis at this year's Fête de l'Humanité, be sure to see that. Most of it is in English, no worries. She had a smile on her face like I've never seen.
Angela wishes us to take a planetary view at this juncture. I deeply agree with her and suggest reading SHIKASTA, and other books from that series, by the late Doris Lessing. They can help with the big view. I really appreciate this discussion and event. ❤
Loving Prentice's questioning annnnd wishing Davis and Owens would go deeper into specifics. I found them a bit to high in the sky, vague, not landing. Just me. Loved seeing them all together like this.
I love the invitation to ask these questions amongst ourselves, in our communities, within the broader sangha. I feel that Dr. Davis' answers pointed to this directly, and this talk amongst our elders lays a pathwork for us to keep asking & keep listening in together. 🙏
If you click on the description and scroll down there is a link to the transcription. I think it’s the auto-transcript by UA-cam so it will have spelling errors and incorrect words.
Could it be that so many activists are tired because it is a situation like, they are actually running a marathon, as a team, into a strong headwind, but insist that only the top runners, run in the lead, thus always taking on the headwind, even when others, who are not as strong, are also capable of taking on that burden, to some extent, but in actuality they are inexplicably not seen, by the best, as part of the team? Lama Rod Owens, seems to have spoken to this, but what is needed is the acknowledgement that this is a problem, broadly among us, on the Left. If Whiteness is very much a part of far-Right conservatism, to the point of it being systemic and structured, as so many of us speak of, logic dictates that we must be, as structured and systemic, in our response to it. This is the fundamental point, that Mr. Neally Fuller Jr. and the late Dr. Francis Cress Welsing have attempted to teach Black people, in regard to White hegemony, which they, and many of us, still called White-supremacy.. Sadly, the attitude of wokeness, is counter to their advise. No other group seem to talk of White-supremacy, but us African-Americans. It raises the question, of whether we give undo power, to White-control?
Mum, sing to the wind; Mum, sing my folk song A dagger’s stab is better than being ruled by a scoundrel Mum, I’m coming back so hide me in your eyes Oh how much anguish and sorrow I have seen in my days My life has passed in so much agony Oh how I wish my chest were a bridge, so you can cross over it And you and I can live a Palestinian life together! Oh mother! What is with the wind? Oh mother! what does it want from me? id rather be hit by daggers than be ruled by a scoundrel and i walked under the rain and the rain quenched my desire and when the summer came t ignited a flame inside me for as long as my life remains it will be a fight for freedom. TY Sangha member Kareem for the translation
I was there in person, and just got home and started to rewatch and listen. What a gift, salve, invitation, and portal this is. What a blue-print to wading through these untenable times with such clarity. Where we find our home in radical community. How we need to walk each other to our spiritual deaths, where we let go of the death making machines of white-supremancy, settler-colonial, and racial capitalism and let it die. Because our lives, and living through polycrisis watching these systems let people die because of being too poor, too melanated, too mentally ill, too disabled, too non-christian, too queer, too trans, too immigrant, too indigenous, too anyone who has been deemed unworthy of dignity and preciousness we all have a right to. These are some dark days, and we will be in juicy community with resistance, joy, and practice towards liberation together!
If you haven't seen Angela Davis at this year's Fête de l'Humanité, be sure to see that. Most of it is in English, no worries. She had a smile on her face like I've never seen.
Thank you for sharing!!!
Angela, Prentis, and Lama Rod's conversation starts at 50:36
My two powerful teachers. Powerful. Thank you both and thank the facilitator.
❤ thank you!
It's not the figure we're talking about; it's the class. Completely agree.
Angela wishes us to take a planetary view at this juncture. I deeply agree with her and suggest reading SHIKASTA, and other books from that series, by the late Doris Lessing. They can help with the big view. I really appreciate this discussion and event. ❤
Loving Prentice's questioning annnnd wishing Davis and Owens would go deeper into specifics. I found them a bit to high in the sky, vague, not landing. Just me. Loved seeing them all together like this.
I love the invitation to ask these questions amongst ourselves, in our communities, within the broader sangha. I feel that Dr. Davis' answers pointed to this directly, and this talk amongst our elders lays a pathwork for us to keep asking & keep listening in together. 🙏
Thank you all so very much! Here's another resource: "The Endless PRACTICE: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be: by Mark Nepo
Is there any possibility to get a transcript to make this more accessible?
if you click on "more" above, you will see a place to click for the transcript.
If you click on the description and scroll down there is a link to the transcription. I think it’s the auto-transcript by UA-cam so it will have spelling errors and incorrect words.
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Who was the opening musician? I heard "Lael Omar" but cannot find anything on the web.
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Could it be that so many activists are tired because it is a situation like, they are actually running a marathon, as a team, into a strong headwind, but insist that only the top runners, run in the lead, thus always taking on the headwind, even when others, who are not as strong, are also capable of taking on that burden, to some extent, but in actuality they are inexplicably not seen, by the best, as part of the team?
Lama Rod Owens, seems to have spoken to this, but what is needed is the acknowledgement that this is a problem, broadly among us, on the Left. If Whiteness is very much a part of far-Right conservatism, to the point of it being systemic and structured, as so many of us speak of, logic dictates that we must be, as structured and systemic, in our response to it. This is the fundamental point, that Mr. Neally Fuller Jr. and the late Dr. Francis Cress Welsing have attempted to teach Black people, in regard to White hegemony, which they, and many of us, still called White-supremacy.. Sadly, the attitude of wokeness, is counter to their advise. No other group seem to talk of White-supremacy, but us African-Americans. It raises the question, of whether we give undo power, to White-control?
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who is the musician?
Layle Omar
Mum, sing to the wind; Mum, sing my folk song
A dagger’s stab is better than being ruled by a scoundrel
Mum, I’m coming back so hide me in your eyes
Oh how much anguish and sorrow I have seen in my days
My life has passed in so much agony
Oh how I wish my chest were a bridge, so you can cross over it
And you and I can live a Palestinian life together!
Oh mother! What is with the wind?
Oh mother! what does it want from me?
id rather be hit by daggers
than be ruled by a scoundrel
and i walked under the rain
and the rain quenched my desire
and when the summer came
t ignited a flame inside me
for as long as my life remains
it will be a fight for freedom. TY Sangha member Kareem for the translation
Thank you so much! What is the name of the song? @@lisamoore414
so jarring to be in the middle of the wisdom of AD and suddenly an add for McRib pops up--what could be less Davis than a McRib ad?
next ad was for AC/DC concert tour.
Angela Davis has fallen so low.
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I see her as eloquent, wise & beautiful ❤💪💛
@@kayleep3329 yeah maybe 20 years ago
Stop wasting money on this shit.
Send it to Microdose Musk. He can take us to Mars.