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Ruth King + Dr. Fleet Maull on transforming racism from the inside out through mindfulness

5 Oct 2023 · 0 min

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This excerpt captures a conversation between Ruth King and Fleet Maull about integrating education on race into mindfulness practice. Ruth King emphasizes understanding historical roots (citing the Legacy Museum) and gratitude, while Fleet Maull highlights how racial conditioning among white Americans has caused harm. King argues that race education should be incorporated into spiritual practice.

I'm looking at my people through the Legacy Museum, From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, which is an exquisite examination of then and now. Be willing to know the roots of where you come from so that there can be a real deep gratitude for how we have the privilege of sitting in this seat and entertaining the deep wisdom that the Dharma offers to us.
Part of that in this country is all the conditioning around race and how, for people of my ethnicity, of being a white American, all our conditioning around race has caused a lot of harm to others.
So I think the education around race needs to be dropped into the practice.