[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Book club this Saturday - 5:00pm

Hi Sangha!

This Saturday, we will have book club at 5:00pm. This week, we will be discussing an article about race by rev. angel Kyodo williams: "Your Liberation is on the Line." The intention of this discussion on race is for it to be open-ended and for it to be an ongoing conversation as a sangha that we return to and support each other in discussing.

Here is the Zoom link for our discussion.

This week, the book club discussion is a part of the self-organized retreat taking place on Saturday and Sunday. For more information on the retreat taking place, please click here for the schedule. 

Note: You do not have to sign up for either the retreat or the book club. Simply join the Zoom call at the appropriate time. Also, although the book club discussion is a part of the retreat, you are welcome to join for just the book club discussion if you are unable to attend the retreat. And vice versa! You are encouraged to attend the retreat for however much of it you can make it for.

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Here are a few guiding questions for our book club discussion:

• What do you think Rev. Williams means when she says "Learn the stories. Learn your own. We can't know our own personal minds without understanding the conditioning and the fabrication of that mind."? How do you think social conditioning has shaped your worldview? Is there anything recently that you've realized about your own conditioning in the last few months?
  
• Was there anything difficult about reading this? What came up for you? When you have conversations or think about race and identity, what thoughts, feelings & emotions come up?

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Looking forward to this weekend. Thanks everyone.

Best,

Benjamin

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