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it is interesting to investigate in thought how this might be done. I base my thought experiment here on my experience as a caucasian person, living in an (more the most part) caucasian community. I am thinking and basing my thoughts upon the insights I have gained into relationships with people of other races.

Now, mayahanists talk alot about the individual (a funny word) enjoying "no seperate existence." Therefore, who is there to accept?

I remember listening to a video recording of chogyam trungpa speaking on how aggressive the thought process can be. How aggressive the wish for realization can be. You project the mind outward to accrue new knowledge. You want to possess the object that you crave, to "suck it's blood" as he said.

But blacks and whites, gays and straights have no seperate existence. And meditation is not a goal-oreinted activity (Chogyam trunpa once said "meditation is a noun, not a verb). You dig the present moment. That is the practice. And the only way now to get caught in the trap of being crushed under the authority of societies that tell you "you must accept" or "you must reject" is to share in the enjoyment of the present moment with those people you are trying to accept. There is no special proceedure. You do not worry about the feelings of the person you are trying to accept, as if they must accept your acceptance. You simply enjoy the present moment for yourself, and enjoy cohabitation. ("Enjoy" is such a good word. I appreciate how Thich Naht Hahn reminds his students to "enjoy" the breath. It is a clever way of getting the mind interested in the object of it's awareness)

As my favorite political philosopher, Hannah Arendt said in The Banality of Evil, "the world is a place fit for human habitation." She also indicated, in that essay, that the failure to share the world with others is a root of great evil.

This shouldn't be a grim undertaking, in fact, perhaps we can learn to enjoy ourselves to a greater degree.