black panther buddha

This is exactly what I'm looking for and good peoplez, I know you are out there. You are the buddha, unpretentious, doing the work to keep our communities healthy, happy and safe. You are the bodhisattva, clearing away confusion, fiercely carrying and living your love, working diligently, maintaining the vigil of awakening. You are the one intent on taking this breath in peace, knowing that this moment, freedom lives.
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Please read this short biography from Black Panther Party member ERICKA HUGGINS. Peace sister.

Ericka Huggins currently lectures about the African-American influence on the Human Rights Movement, the Black Panther Paty Community Programs and The Impact of Women Leaders in the Black Panther Party.

She has taught meditation and mindfulness in California public elementary and secondary schools for over 20 years.

She is currently a part of a global project to offer spiritual awareness to children, teens and young adults.

From 1973-1981 she was Director of the Oakland Community School, a community run and supported child development center and elementary school in East Oakland. After she joined the Black Panther Party in 1969, she became writer and editor for the Black Panther Intercommunal News Service.

Her book of poetry, Insights and Poems, co-authored by Huey Newton, was published in 1974.

She lives in Oakland, California and is currently working on her autobiography.

Source: http://www.blackpanther.org/speakers_table.htm

TO ALL THE BUDDHAS-BODHISATTVAS THROUGHOUT THIS LAND, THIS TIME AND THIS SPACE
GOODNESS!

favorable conditions

the conditions which have inspired i(((S)))m to existence:
-thay thich nhat hanh, my teacher
-people of color dharma discussion family
retreat sponsored by plum village / deer park monastery at ucsd in august 2002.
-colors of compassion retreat: embracing our heritage, honoring ourselves on the path (march 2004 at deer park monastery)
-asian pacific islander american dharma retreat (i didn't attend by a dharma sister did and she brought back the news)
-brother true speech, sister jewel, brother larry ward, brother joseph lam, brothers phap dung, phap niem, phap khi, phap lai, phap hai, phai ngo, ( :-) goodness...
-sweetwater zen center
-manzanita village
-dharma, color and culture (edited by hilda baldoquin)
-new dharma for urban peace newdharma.com (angel kyodo williams)
-auspicious sister, sobal, onelovetrust, diego...
-alan bryden (brixton): brother, i miss you and wish you well wherever you are.
-kamala masters, bell hooks, alice walker...
-saturnz return in leo situated in the 9th house (ha!)
-wild, fresh, beautiful friends

coming full circle

coming full circle

there is an element of disclosure-confession-openness which i'm beginning to feel after having started this blog. confession from my catholic upbringing and heritage, openness, the new light of perspective which i want to water in myself. who am i to write/create this space in the blogosphere-world related to the DHARMA and folks of color and just what am i really tryna say here?
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this is the old part of me still wanting to be heard and wanting some air time and mind-space-time. this is the old part of me that wants to keeps things as they are, fearful, shaky and uncertain what it would mean to "confess" and "out" myself that i am a pilipino american man who has found his way home to a "spiritual praktis" of sorts based on zen, "buddhism", meditation and mindfulness and this is beginning to grow and sprout more and even he/i could have ever imagined. and so what's this with iSm:::i(SANGHA)mahal anyway?
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an attempt at writing to gain clarity:
iSm:::i(SANGHA)mahal is an expression aimed at bringing together my cultural background as a person with pilipino ancestry and my developing spiritual aspirations. what does "buddhism" have to do with the philippines and pilipinos anyways? are we all catholics for the most part?
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goodness. i feel like there is so much to write about. so many perspectives and dimensions of myself IN THIS to dialogue about. i(SANGHA)mahal is filled with the intention to offer the Ways Back Home by writing about it, speaking about it, experiencing it, meditating on it, breathing it, really living it. this is a conscious effort at coming full circle with myself and my world. coming full circle to remember my ancestors. coming full circle to remember my breath and my body and my mind. to remember peace and stillness and the richness that resides in these moments of stopping to touch a sense of all the All-Isness that exists. coming full circle.
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may this work benefit beings in all directions near and far :-)
from paradise hills, san diego california
to mount pinatubo, philippines
peace
peace
peace
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we are coming full circle
and this is how it sounds
diaspora
has created the conditions
for the DHARMA
to manifest in beings
like me
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coming full circle

iSANGHAmahal

uniting together
in oneness
naturalness
wakefulness
happiness
fullness
completeness
we are the ones
we have been waiting for
as we are
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i(((SANGHA)))mahal
is an online resource intent
on supporting the
growing connection
and deepening praktis
of the DHARMA
for us peoplez of color here
in the united states
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isangmahal ::: one love
iSm ::: i(((sangha)))mahal ::: oneness-community-love
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