**Cobalt** @Cobalt · 2018-06-13T19:18:44Z

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"And when I’m at actions and protests, people are like, “Oh, what are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be in the #zendo?” I say, “No, I study #Buddhism in zendos, but my practice compels me to be in the world because I don’t have a choice. I’m Black too. It doesn’t matter if I’m walking outside with this shawl on. I’m still a Black man with a shawl on."

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Jun 13, 2018, 19:18 · Amaroq · 2 · 3

**Cobalt** @Cobalt · Jun 13, 2018, 19:24

**Cobalt** @Cobalt · Jun 13, 2018, 19:24

Jun 13, 2018, 19:24

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"We need to dismiss as pretense, then, that the freedom abolition won can protect us from de-territorialization, slave labor, lynch culture, legal segregation, forced encampment, home invasions, terrorism, or death, i.e., becoming disposable. What I would like to propose in these closing words is that what we need now is not more freedoms but more fugitives! We needed fugitives to find the loopholes in our language of liberation."

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**Cobalt** @Cobalt · Jun 13, 2018, 19:33

**Cobalt** @Cobalt · Jun 13, 2018, 19:33

Jun 13, 2018, 19:33

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"There is a distrust of identity in dharma communities. Part of this distrust is an authentic desire to transcend ego-based identifications that keep us rooted in dualistic suffering. However, most often I experience this distrust as a strategy to control and gain power over who has a right to talk about dharma in spaces and how dharma is talked about." (1/2)

**Cobalt** @Cobalt · Jun 13, 2018, 19:34

**Cobalt** @Cobalt · Jun 13, 2018, 19:34

Jun 13, 2018, 19:34

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"When bodies are controlled, then there is less chance that the dominant group will be made uncomfortable having to tolerate a dharma expression that reminds them of their implicit role in the suffering of underrepresented groups." (2/2)

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**Cobalt** @Cobalt · Jun 13, 2018, 19:51

**Cobalt** @Cobalt · Jun 13, 2018, 19:51

Jun 13, 2018, 19:51

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"People have to experience their interdependence. To recognize that any limit in your ability to #love limits my ability to love. One has to penetrate the truth of #interdependence such that I am moved to a place in which I am not doing something for you, but it is actually about me, which is tied to you because there is, in an absolute sense, no separation."