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Hi David and everyone else on this thread.

This is a great platform that you have started David. I have recently taken refuge after meditating for many years. I felt the need to formalise my spiritual life.


Take a little of the pressure off yourself and start looking around. You'll see lots of people suffering from their own environmental conditioning. I fully understand your sentiments concerning racism.

My personal view which I don't expect you to adhere to is, that racism is an inadequate word to really connect to this kind of suffering. I live in a country where many communities co-exist. They rarely mingle and even eating with each other seems to be an insurmountable task for some people.

I feel 'intolerance' is a word that helps me to find a balance of responsibility in my own internal life. We assume with racism that there is a majority oppressing a minority. In fact, speaking with most people you find that they can be very intolerant of some group or other. It is very sad, that some young people where I live, hate the country where they live and the people even though they were actually born here.


Over and above environmental conditioning, try to identify your own intolerance and the fears that are connected to them.

Thank you again for starting this thread.

Gyaltsen