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Sitting in the Fire Together: People of Color Cultivating Radical Resilience in North American Insight Meditation |
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Author |
Gajaweera, Nalika (著)
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Source |
Journal of Global Buddhism
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Volume | v.22 n.1 |
Date | 2021 |
Pages | 121 - 139 |
Publisher | Journal of Global Buddhism |
Publisher Url |
https://www.unilu.ch/en/faculties/faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/institutes-departements-and-research-centres/department-for-the-study-of-religions/
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Location | Lucerne, Switzerland |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Keyword | mindfulness; race; PoC; American Buddhism; resilience; emotions; intersubjectivity |
Abstract | Drawing upon ethnographic research conducted in California with BIPOC practitioners of mindfulness, this article examines their efforts to create “safe spaces” to collectively experience and process painful embodied emotions around racialized trauma. These collective spaces, I argue, help meditators move from experiencing painful emotions as internal to their personal experience as individuals, and instead help relate their difficult emotions with those experienced and shared by other racialized minorities. Building such safe space communities help raise awareness of the shared socio-political nature of their individual emotions. This collective experiencing of racialized embodiment fosters a type of radical resilience, and, ultimately, develops an awareness of collective responsibility, care for community and direct action for racial justice within the individual meditator. |
Table of contents | Terms and Method 122 Methodology 123 Whiteness in Insight Meditation and Mindfulness 124 PoC Spaces 129 Decolonizing the Mind 132 Conclusion 136 |
ISSN | 15276457 (E) |
DOI | 10.5281/zenodo.4727595 |
Hits | 109 |
Created date | 2022.03.04 |
Modified date | 2022.03.04 |

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