We on the Zen Life & Meditation Middle, Chicago mourn the homicide of George Floyd and stand with the households of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and plenty of extra individuals of coloration who’ve misplaced their lives by the hands of white violence.
Our nation has by no means been extra divided. It’s our accountability to rework the poisonous views that feed racism and injustice in our nation. Racism has been part of our nation from the start. It continues at the moment as part of our social justice system.
Because of this we are saying “Black Lives Matter”, as a result of we should face the exhausting and tough fact that folks of coloration are systematically discriminated in opposition to by the police.
We stand with all individuals of coloration and particularly at this tough time, with our black brothers and sisters to withstand all types of white violence. As practitioners of the Dharma we have now an ethical accountability to uproot our personal prejudice and racism, and to rework the methods of oppression that help this injustice at the moment. It’s our accountability to coach ourselves in regards to the historic roots of racism and oppression in order that we could be a constructive pressure for good. It’s crucial that we face the struggling earlier than us, and never flip away via silence or denial.
The Zen Life & Meditation Middle, Chicago is dedicated to a dharma of fact, justice, fairness, inclusion and freedom. Could all beings be secure and free from hazard and hurt. Could all be at peace.
