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From a retreat in Victoria, BC in 2015. What if we don’t make it as a species? How else are you going to live your life but in opening to what is here?
This month Gangaji sits down for an interview on the subject of racism. Gangaji grew up in Mississippi, raised as a white southern girl in the segregated town of Clarksdale. In this interview, she speaks about how her own racist conditioning first began to be dismantled. She invites us not only to meet the cruelty and wrongs of the past 400 years, but also to meet the internal system of racism within our own minds today. Part One of this intervie…
This interview was recorded for the Healing Mirror Podcast in June 2020. Gangaji talks about her meeting with Papaji in India, the GF prison program and the current world situation. The Healing Mirror Podcast https://www.sorayasaraswati.com/podcast/
I want to share about an awakening that has overtaken me. The parallels are so strong between this and my experience of awakening to the truth of myself that I feel it belongs here. I speak of a deep awakening to the truth of white supremacy and racism, and I speak particularly to those of us who are white, as so many in this sangha are.
From time to time Kat Miller, our director of donor relations, reaches out to donors to hear what has inspired them to donate to the Gangaji Foundation. We don’t usually share such correspondence, but this beautiful, vulnerable dialogue that evolved be …
In a moment of shattering, whether it is global or it is personal, all that you have been conditioned to believe about who you are is removed, at least for an instant. If you can remain conscious in that removal, in that loss, you will recognize what cannot be removed, what is actually free of loss.
Reckoning with a Cruel White Legacy: In this historic moment, white people have an opportunity to redress the long, cruel legacy of racism in America. Author Ibram X. Kendi said, “The history of racism is a history of denial.” So that is where we begin with this episode: the resolve to end denial and face hard truths. In this recording from 1998, Gangaji recounts an article about Bishop Desmond Tutu. His commitment to truth and reconcil…
Mike’s parents were Greek, Joe’s were from Spain, Jason’s were from India, like mine. There were kids from the next street over playing with us too. A generation removed from Persia, Africa, Israel, Europe, all the colors of the skin-rainbow showed up to play that day.