Inclusiveness & Intimacy: Honoring Black History Month

Whatever our racial or ethnic backgrounds, we can always grow our hearts. February is black history month and this talk invites us to nurture the seeds of compassion in our minds and respectfully honor and learn about those who are different from us. In a world of increasing alienation, let this be an invitation to practice patience, inclusiveness, tolerance and forebearance.

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Lovely

Love you my Dear friend 🙏🏾💙🙏🏼♥️☮️
My heart is full and softened 💕

What an insightful and kind invitation.
Thank you!

Brilliant talk. Thank you 🙏🏾

Beautifully moving. Deep bow🙏

Excellent! A gentle yet important understanding…

I loved this, such reaffirming information presented with such compassion.

Thank you

Kaira, thank you for creating this talk and sharing your wisdom and that of your ancestors with us. It opened my heart in a new way of connection and understanding. I have much gratitude for you. Thank you

Very inspiring and enlightening, thank you for for sharing. Namaste

Thank you so much for sharing your story and offering the suggestions for growth and creating intimacy.

Beautiful thank you

Dear Kaira Jewel, thank you for this potent talk and suggestions to promote healing and wholeness. My eyes and heart wept during part of your talk as you spoke of your Great Grandmother. I will practice with your suggestions and expand my readings and watching to honour your suggestions. By calling on all ancestors, their tears open my heart. Thank you with love and reverence.

I learned a lot!! Thank you for the great ideas!

Beautiful. Thanks

Thankyou for opening my mind and heart.

Really enjoyed how your talk unfolded. It was articulate and also sounded like an intimate conversation. The story of your grandmother was nice-I could picture her going fishing with her jeans and beer! Appreciate the suggestions of how to honor Black history month but also the deeper meaning of how the construct of race has really affected us all, as a collective.

Very insightful. Love the excercises that you suggested. Thank you.

Beautiful. Thank you 🙏

Thank you so much for this talk! It was outstanding. I loved your invitation to call on my ancestors to listen with me. For my biological ancestors I invited my dad who just died last month & my maternal grandmother who died about 30 years ago & was one of the most loving people in my life. The national ancestors & contemporaries were Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King & Michelle & Barack Obama. As a Christian my spiritual ancestors are Jesus Christ, the Apostle Paul & the Christian missionaries who so embraced the people they ministered to, they were accused of "going native." I also appreciate your suggested exercises. As a Chinese-American married to a man of German ancestry & mother of biracial children, most of the people I interact with don't look like me but I like the idea of learning more about other cultures & listening to other people's stories. Thank you for sharing parts of yours.

An unknown piece of my heart has been opened. I am so grateful

Great intro to being in touch with and gaining support from our land, spiritual, blood / family of origin, ancestors in relation to racial healing and inclusivesness. Wonderful connection to the practice of inclusiveness and that paramitas ( perfections) along with clear and practical ways to support and grow our understanding of the struggles, strengths, and stories of people different then us, with particular focus on honoring the African American diaspora experience. We have been studying Ruth King's book Mindful of Race with a small group within my local Sangha. After reading and practicing the guided meditations, journaling, and establishing a safe and nurturing space we decided to create a Racial Affinity Group as Ruth King instructs to explore racism, white Priviledge, white fragility, institutional racism, unconcious bias, White supremacy, while also allowing for inner work and looking at our own ancestors and what their experiences and attitudes have given us to transform for our children and grandchildren. How can we integrate interbeing and non separate self, non discrimination into an engaged practice as individuals in a Sangha body . A Bow of gratitude to Kaira Jewel Lingo for a Wonderful talk that brought all the work we have been doing together. Ashe

Update: I played your Dharma talk for my Racial Affinity Group this week. It was a big hit. We had a great discussion about the intimacy we have created in sharing looking deeply into our own challenges with racism, white supremacy, and colonial thought patterns. Since then we have seen a film on Ida B Wells together, made plans to go see Just Mercy, and started a discussion on what book to read next. I went and got White Fragility and How to be an Anti - Racist by Kendi for myself. My daughter is an active member of People of Color United and Minority student Achievement Network at her highschool. She saw my new reading books and she approved, adding "I met Mr. Kendi at a MSAN conference and Robin Diangelo another workshop on Social Justice. I liked Mr. Kendi!" A wonderful feeling to be acknowledged by my teenager in a connected way. I made a plug yesterday at my larger Sangha to listen to your talk and to become involved with ARISE and it's resources. I am looking forward to hearing Valerie Brown's Webinar series in a few weeks.

I appreciate these insights. Thanks for offering practices we can take to deepen our understanding and inclusion.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful talk, Kaira Jewel. A deep bow of appreciation, Hugh

Illuminating and heart centered sharing
Thanks

Thank You for sharing your thoughts. I found it most accepting to my spirit. What a profound awakening for us all who share in the belief of equality for all people !

Wow! I’m so grateful for your teaching! That was phenomenal.

This was very moving, thought provoking and much needed. Thank you for your gentle guidance and tender care of the soul. Nam myoho renge kyo.

Thank you for this teaching! And for being a loving and articulate force in guiding us into a compassionate and connective waking up togetherI love this talk!

Thank you for sharing this wonderful memory of your great grandmother, and for your insightful & concise presentation on our historic and current system of racism. Your message about calling on our ancestors to guide & support us, while also being committed to not perpetuating their mistakes & ignorance, speaks deeply to me as a white woman.

Thank you so much for this! ❤️

Thank you for this meditation. Your mention of Katrina Browne brought back a memory from many years ago. A small group of us met at a friend’s house in Berkeley, California where Katrina shared her vision for a film she wanted to produce. That little bit of seed money we provided at that meeting went towards the making of Traces of the Trade, a powerful film which I highly recommend to your listeners here on Insight Timer.

Thank you for your generosity of spirit, against all odds. I appreciated the suggestions for books, films, initiatives.

Enlightening. Profound. Gentle.

Extremely moving! Exceptional insight! I was emotional throughout! Love you and bless you beautiful soul 🙏🤗❤️

Thank you for sharing about your beautiful grandmother & all these important stories & information. As a mixed Caribbean national, I share in the similar painful history of slavery & colonization of my ancestors. Grateful to where we are today, we collectively have to work & expect to see more just changes for black people.

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Thought provoking

Such a thoughtful and intelligent contemplation of inclusion and intimacy! And so needed. Thankyou thankyou.

Thank you! 💖

Thank you for such a good talk, with so much to consider, and ideas for how to continue to open our minds & hearts to the experience of African Americans & people of color. Growing up in a predominately white town, with only a few people of color in our school and church, it did help me so much to read the work of Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. Thank you for the suggestions of new people to follow and read. Namaste 🙏🏼

What lovely suggestions for all of us. I’m working daily on being a better ancestor and am grateful for tools in support of that work. Thank you, Kaira ✨

Excellent ! Thank you 🙏🏽

Illuminating. Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿

Excellent! As a white person something I needed to hear and something all whites should listen to. Grateful for the talk!

Interesting and inspiring. Thank you 🌷

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Beautiful and clear. A must listen for Black History Month and any time! Thank you.
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Interconnected, beautifully expressed, hopeful and practical. Thank you.

Thank you for this talk! I work at a memorial to the Long Walk of the Navajo and want to bring healing to all affected by colonialism from those affected and those afflicted by the so called white privilege. Thank you!!!

Inclusiveness and intimacy are what you need to show compassion.

Thank you for your gentle, eloquent message of hope and compassion.

Thank you! Loved the talk and and your suggestions...❤️🙏🏽

Great suggestions at the end! I was able to google Ruth Kong’s “Healing the Broken Body of Sangha”. I also found “Traces of the Trade” on the National Library streaming service, Kanopy. Im going to dig into both now!! Gratitude🙏🏾

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This was tender and beautiful! Thank you!

A wonderful talk to highlight Black History Month. Thank you for the gentle guidance to our ancestors and book recommendations.

Wonderful talk with beautiful voice and well researched topic. Thank you for the recommended books and references. My take home from this talk was intimacy, humility and knowledge that our ancestors are forever loving and uniting us as one from our disconnectedness.
Thank you for the light you have brought to this world through your spiritual practices and talk on Black History month. Thank you so much.

Thank you for this insightful message.i am part of across cultural, cross generational women’s group. We meet once a week to support and share our stories, gifts and talents. I look forward to sharing your discussion with the group.thank you for sharing💕

A thoughtful, thorough invitation to deepen our understanding and connection to our inheritance and legacy.

This was well thought through. Thank you for the invitation. Gladly accepted. I love that fact that you suggest on calling onto and pay tribute to our ancestors. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences.

Best talk I've heard on this app. Thank you for the inspiration!

Beautiful, loving and inspiring talk for everyone. Thank you!

Lovely, rich reflections that offer mindful awareness of our selves and invitations to become more intimately aware of those who may now be other to us. Thank for such tender, effective engagement to build greater wholeness.

Thank you for your beautiful, inspiring reflection focused on Black History Month. I especially appreciated your personal family stories as well as your specific recommendations of books and movies by black writers and filmmakers. I'm looking forward to learning and growing in my sense of inclusivity and intimacy during this month and onward into the future.

Thank you for inviting me to explore intimacy and inclusivity in practical ways this month. Love your words and voice. Namaste

So opening for me. I saw Just Mercy last night and have since been contemplating how to reach out to certain folks in my life. I'm beginning to understand white privilege and beginning to see how I can be more conscious and inclusive...on purpose.

This was a wonderful way to center and set intention for Black history month. Great reminders to review our family history, community history and to share this knowledge and gratitude for the ancestors.

Excellent. Sensitive Subject Soulfully Sliced....

Thank you so much! What a wonderful way to start Black History Month! I am sharing this link with all our followers on the Compassionate Atlanta social media platforms!!

Thank you for such an insightful talk. I'm looking forward to following your recommendations to reach out to others who are different than me. 💕