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Ruth King on Healing Racism

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Ruth King is an emotional wisdom author, coach, and consultant. She’s a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Community of Washington and she’s on the teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. In addition, she’s the founder of Mindful Members Insight Meditation Community in Charlotte, NC. She has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology and is the author of several publications including her new book, Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out. In this stirring, thoughtful and wise conversation, she touches on the heart of racism and teaches how we can move to heal this heart disease.

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 In This Interview, Ruth King and I Discuss…

  • The value of being curious about the good and bad wolves inside of us
  • Racism being a heart disease that is curable
  • Her open heart surgery at the age of 27
  • Rage being an exit route
  • Rage being energy moving through the body
  • Habitual patterns of racism being a layer on top of the real issue that we can’t tolerate – they are defense mechanisms
  • Racial affinity groups
  • 6 hindrances
  • The structure of racism
  • Racism vs Prejudice
  • Racist vs Racism
  • Understanding our own experience with racism and talking about it
  • What it’s like to be “membered”
  • Individual vs group identity
  • Diversity within the body of color

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Scott Edelstein on Finding a Spiritual Teacher

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Scott Edelstein is a student of and friend to many great spiritual teachers. A longtime practitioner of both the Buddhist and Jewish traditions, he is a proponent of serious spirituality in all forms and traditions. He’s a published author in many important spiritual journals and his newest book is called The User’s Guide to Spiritual Teachers. It is so important to have a discerning eye when it comes to choosing spiritual teachers in your life but what do you actually look for, what red flags do you recognize and what is their role in your life, specifically? These questions and more are discussed and answered in this informative, wise and practical conversation.

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In This Interview, Scott Edelstein and I Discuss…

  • His book, The User’s Guide to Spiritual Teachers
  • That fear is both good and bad
  • That spiritual teachers are human too
  • That enlightenment isn’t some threshold to be crossed
  • The nature of maturation
  • If we pay attention, as we grow older, we grow wiser
  • How if you live with a belief long enough, it seems pretty commonplace
  • The importance of not giving someone else your power
  • The danger of a spiritual teacher who wants something from you or wants to make decisions for you
  • The importance of using your own discernment when working with spiritual teachers
  • What to do if you feel you can’t trust yourself
  • Thinking of your spiritual teacher as a professor at a university
  • The borning nature of spiritual practice
  • Our addiction to control and the necessity of realizing we’re not in control
  • The ability to change
  • The willingness to change
  • The role of spiritual teachers and personal change

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