To practice the Five Mindfulness Trainings is to cultivate a way of life that can remove all discrimination, intolerance, anger, fear, and despair.
When we are mindful, we arrive at our own unique insight. When we are mindful, we can see that by refraining from doing one thing, we can prevent another thing from happening. Mindfulness protects us, our families and our society. We Were Made For These Times: A Conversation With Kaira Jewel Lingo. With mindfulness, we are aware of what is going on in our bodies, our feelings, our minds and the world, and we avoid doing harm to ourselves and others. Mark speaks to a quote from William Blake: Straight is the road to improvement. Thich Nhat Hanh translated these precepts for modern times. The Five Mindfulness Trainings are based on the precepts developed during the time of the Buddha and were the foundation of practice for the entire lay practice community. Having grown up in an ecumenical Christian community where families practiced a new kind of monasticism and worked with the poor, at the age of twenty-five she entered a Buddhist monastery in the Plum Village tradition and. All spiritual traditions have their equivalent to the Five Mindfulness Trainings. Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher with a lifelong interest in blending spirituality and meditation with social justice. They are nonsectarian, and their nature is universal. They provide us with a compass with which to orient our lives. The Five Mindfulness Trainings are offered as suggestions to support our mindfulness practice. Our hearts and our supports are broken open by grief, fear, and anger. How do we fight injustice and not hate? This is compounded by the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black, Asian, Latinx, immigrant, un-housed, and low-income communities, which are among the hardest hit, grossly under-resourced, and devastatingly vulnerable. The legacy of violence, especially unlawful police violence, perpetrated against Black people, Asian people, indigenous people, people of color, differently abled people, people of various gender identities and expressions and sexual orientation, and others who are marginalized, is our constant reality. Get in trouble: good trouble, necessary trouble.”Īs Black and Brown people, we are in the fight of our lives. Our lives are constricted by systems and structures that foster discrimination and injustice. As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love.” “Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. How Do You Fight Injustice Without Hating?
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