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Contemplative Practices for People of Color Contemplative Practices For People Of Color Sabbe satta sukhi hontu! May all beings be happy! -Pali phrase American Buddhism is born both from the ancient and timeless teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who said: all deserve to be happy, to hear the dharma, and North America’s founding dream of freedom and equality. Yet, in spite of these intersecting histories, most sanghas in the United States are economically, socially, and culturally homogenous. Even though highly realized teachers from Asia come to the United States to teach the Dharma, those who teach alongside them or those who sit in the audience are rarely people of color. Some people of color attend once and never return because they don’t have a sense of community or connection in which to feel safe, valued, heard, seen, or welcomed. The adverse effect of this is the continued marginalization of certain members of society, members who have as much interest to practice meditation, alleviate their own suffering, and unite body and mind. The San Francisco Zen Center For the last 15 years the San Francisco Zen Center has been making a conscious effort to encourage people of color to visit their center and experience Buddhism. Using all three of their bay area centers and offering a series of one-day retreats, practice groups and visiting teachers, the membership of the Zen Center strives to become more diverse and understand the issues effecting people of color. The Diversity Committee The San Francisco Zen Center created an ad hoc Diversity Committee in 1993 to look at ways to diversify the center’s membership. The job of this committee was to see how the center could best serve the people of color who were already attending programs at the Zen Center and to see how they could encourage more members of the surrounding community to visit and discover the teachings of Buddhism. A few programs were planned, but the center did not have the resources at that time to put all their ideas into action. The Committee’s First Steps In 1999 the Zen Center submitted a proposal to a foundation that was giving money to organizations working with people of color. The proposal was accepted and they were able to hire their first part-time Diversity Coordinator, Dr. Lee Lipp, Ph.D. Already a member of the Zen Center, Dr. Lipp started to examine the center’s needs and see how she could help fulfill them. She says, “I started looking at what was happening at Zen Center and what it looked like people wanted to have happening. So, I started by introducing myself around and, not too long after that, I met a teacher of color.”i Property of The Garrison Institute. This paper cannot be reproduced without permission. 2011 This meeting led to the establishment of a “Teachers of Color” residency program. They invited teachers of color from different traditions around the United States to live and teach at the Zen Center. Teachers who had lived in the U.S. for most of their lives were targeted in the hopes that they would understand the effects of racism as it plays itself out in this country. The first teacher to join the program was Monty Suhita Dharma. He stayed at the center for two and a half weeks and gave many talks at the center’s public programs. He also led a one-day retreat for people of color and spoke at many other dharma centers in the area. Dr. Lipp says, “At the culmination of his visit, he invited the extended community, meaning whoever was practicing or whoever wanted to come, to join with the people of color sangha, to chant and drum as part of a healing ceremony. It was quite moving to me.”ii The committee also started inviting people who held positions of leadership at the center to attend a series of diversity trainings at an organization called Visions. The idea was to cultivate cultural competency in the center’s decision makers. These trainings continued for almost two years and led to people beginning to see the interaction between class and color. The membership requested a workshop on the topic and a series of informal classes were offered by one of the center’s teachers. Working with the non-Zen Buddhist community Through the years many teachers of color have visited the San Francisco Zen Center and offered programs to its membership. Oakland-based Angel Kyudo Williams facilitated a half-day retreat called ―The Dharma of Martin Luther King,‖ and Kamala Masters, one of the founders of Vipassana Metta Foundation on Maui, led a two and a half day Vipassana retreat for people of color. The center also started to work on other diversity areas such as women’s issues and religion, gay issues, and issues around disability. While these areas have not become as well defined as the people of color programs, the work continues at many of the Zen Centers in the bay area. The center also started working with centers in different Buddhist traditions to share ideas, successes and failures. For a time a few members of the San Francisco Zen Center’s Diversity Committee worked with the Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Diversity Committee. Also, in 2002, the San Francisco Zen Center started having diversity trainings at its three retreat centers. All members of the centers were required to attend. At this time they also started offering program scholarships to people of color who otherwise would be unable to attend their programs. The current state of the center Eventually the ad hoc diversity committee was formalized by the San Francisco Zen Center’s board and became the Diversity and Multicultural Committee. Although one of the focuses of the committee is working with people of color, the committee itself remains mostly white and that has led to occasional difficulties when working with people of color in the center. Dr. Lipp, now retired from her position as Diversity Coordinator, discusses how members she’s been working with react when they discover she is white, “here they thought I was a person that could be completely trusted, but I’m white. There’s some hesitancy. It seems to me that this is the suffering of racism for all of us. That people of color see me and my skin is white and they come Property of The Garrison Institute. This paper cannot be reproduced without permission. 2011 with this…most white people are not trustworthy and I’m one of them. That’s how the separation happens. It’s a disease that’s continuing.”iii The only program for people of color currently scheduled at the Zen Center is “A Retreat For People of Color and Their Friends.” Co-facilitated by Sala Steinbach, an African-American, it encourages people of color to bring their white friends to meditate and discuss how the issues of racism affect them. Sala says, “I want everybody at the table…I want everybody to know that Buddha was talking to all of us. That’s all. And so that is, for me, what the day-long is.”iv While the center doesn’t presently have a Diversity Coordinator, the center’s work with diverse populations continues on. Currently in the midst of a reorganization, the center hopes to once again start planning new programs in the upcoming months. Spirit Rock Meditation Center Most of the sorrows of the earth humans cause for themselvesv Jack Kornfield Spirit Rock Spirit Rock’s mission on diversity ―is to promote the transformation of the Spirit Rock community (Board, teachers, staff and sangha) so that at all levels, institutional and otherwise… embodies multicultural inclusiveness, engages in authentic dialogue, and collaborates across differences. We are dedicated to the inclusion of all races, genders, classes, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, disabilities, cultures, ethnicities, etc.‖vi In 2001 the Spirit Rock board adopted the Diversity Program Initiative, ―to awaken and sustain an engaged exploration into the many levels of seen and unseen separation among the Spirit Rock community using the fundamental grounding of our Dharma practice.‖vii The point was to make the invisible visible with the following objectives in mind: To create on-going programs which weave diversity awareness into the fabric of the entire Spirit Rock community. To commit to the transformation of attitudes and behaviors in ourselves and in our sangha which reduce the humanity or inherent value of any person or group. To create opportunities to join together in spiritual practices which respect and honor our differences and our underlying interconnectedness. To create and evolve the spirit and attitude of inclusion, and a genuine openness and curiosity toward experiences that are different from our own.viii In 2002 the first ever African American Retreat was held at Spirit Rock. Alice Walker spoke to a gathering of teachers, community leaders, and practitioners from across the nation. Since that first retreat Spirit Rock has continued to offer gatherings specifically for groups and individuals Property of The Garrison Institute. This paper cannot be reproduced without permission. 2011 who often find themselves in the minority, such as People of Color or the Lesbian Gays Bisexual and Transgender (BGBT) communities. Although the events may be exclusive, they are not meant to disconnect the participants from their neighbors or their surroundings but rather provide a safe place for people to come together with shared socio-cultural experiences. ―In today’s multicultural world we encounter differences in many forms at every step and every moment,‖ says Urusa Fahim, Diversity Coordinator at The Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California.
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