Everybody’s Business
We look forward to coming together for our Study Group this Sunday 16th August at 4:00pm where we will continue our exploration of Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk.
We strongly encourage you to read/re-read the chapter Duck Hunting is Everybody’s Business pg 201-227. In this chapter we meet the notion of violence being part of the pattern. Perilous & complicated subject matter.
“Creation started with a big bang, not a big hug: violence is part of the pattern. The damage of violence is minimised when it is distributed throughout a system rather than centralised into the hands of a few powerful people and their minions. If you live a life without violence you are living an illusion, outsourcing your conflict to unseen powers and detonating it in an area beyond your living space.”
Sand Talk, pg 223-224
What conflict am I outsourcing? | What/who are the unseen powers? | Can it really be detonated beyond my living space?
The burden of patriarchy and misogyny narrows the lives of every person, irrespective of gender and culture. I strongly believe there needs to be a process of acknowledgement, reflection and renewal.
This requires more than an act of resistance; I see it as a process of rebirth, redesign and reconstruction… Collectively, we need to break free from the bondage of patriarchy, white privilege and the misogynistic structures that control us. This isn’t just desirable, it is necessary, if we want to be sustainable.
Sand Talk, Kelly’s words, pg 226-7
How do I experience misogyny? | How do I challenge patriarchy and white privilege?
“Violence is clearly part of the way the universe unfolds and expresses itself, is utterly intrinsic to many life processes, and cannot possibly be disowned. It is also part of the most horrific ways in which lives and communities and nations come tragically apart and cause vast harm.
So what are some of the places, drawing from our own experience, in which we can see a strategy or response of non-violence and non-harming being brought to meet fruitfully and creatively with violence?”
Roshi Susan Murphy
Please bring your unique contribution and together we will further grow this rich ecosystem we call sangha relations.
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Karen & Deborah
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