What occurs to me with regard to number 5 is the bell hooks thesis of Will to Change that patriarchy hurts men too (granted in ways entirely different and impossible to compare to the ways patriarchy hurts women).
It shouldn’t be glossed over that trading your humanity for privilege is horrible. To not have humanity is to not believe you are deserving of co-existence on this planet. To not have humanity is to believe you are unworthy of love. bell hooks would say this is where domination comes from: we white men believe we’re shamefully unlovable, so we try to force those lower on the totem pole to obey and pay homage to us.
It’s fear-driven conquering as substitute for receptivity to potential abundance.
Maybe this is a way love and justice are have a nondual relationship?
Without living a life floating along in the current of justice, you also have no access to the metaphysical field of love that Ram Dass liked to suggest our language points to when we say we are “in” love with someone. We’re in the field of love. Existing as love. Love made manifest.
What a collection of zingers! Beautiful.
What occurs to me with regard to number 5 is the bell hooks thesis of Will to Change that patriarchy hurts men too (granted in ways entirely different and impossible to compare to the ways patriarchy hurts women).
It shouldn’t be glossed over that trading your humanity for privilege is horrible. To not have humanity is to not believe you are deserving of co-existence on this planet. To not have humanity is to believe you are unworthy of love. bell hooks would say this is where domination comes from: we white men believe we’re shamefully unlovable, so we try to force those lower on the totem pole to obey and pay homage to us.
It’s fear-driven conquering as substitute for receptivity to potential abundance.
Maybe this is a way love and justice are have a nondual relationship?
Without living a life floating along in the current of justice, you also have no access to the metaphysical field of love that Ram Dass liked to suggest our language points to when we say we are “in” love with someone. We’re in the field of love. Existing as love. Love made manifest.
Too New Agey? Haha.
Thank you for this collection! Radical Dharma is such a gift to folks looking to integrate justice and love.