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u know what makes me cry..... that one van gogh quote about life changing for the better..... “many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. and it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘what do i care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ yes, evil often seems to surpass good. but then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. one morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. and so i must still have hope.” yeah..... Crying....

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Hello yogi, as a 22 year old African American man - how would one go about finding true confidence in identity and existing now. With covid and racial tension. How can I find true peace in this chaos and oppression. Do I have to let go of said identity? When asking myself “I am” I say Slater( my name) which both come from slave owners. When I look at my ability I say a designer I am a man I am alive— but what about Breonna Taylor what about Philando Castile? Why are they not alive? And if nothing is truly going to change with the fact they are gone what is life truly about if this is okay in someone’s eyes? The divine the universe the love why can’t I feel it? (Why do I feel like it’s now allowed for me to know?)

We all have a different experience of ourselves in this world. Your experience will be different from mine. It is when we go inward through practices like meditation, dropping language and commentary in the fullness of stillness, that a wakeful knowingness (awareness) becomes apparent. In that awareness, there is no such thing as separation or as individuals. That is where we are one. That is where deep and lasting peace is revealed. There is no lasting peace to be found in this world, only temporary peace and temporary hostility.

If you set aside some time every day to forget the world and forget your human identity and sit in meditation, a peace and groundedness will grow inside of you.

As an African American man in today’s environment of covid and racial tension and so on, it’s up to you to decide who you are in the interface of your own consciousness and the world. The more peaceful and rooted you feel within, the more at ease and natural you will feel in figuring that all out. You will be more capable of making conscious decisions rather than allowing traumas or projections to control you or limit you. Know that by walking this path well, you are blazing a trail for anyone who has ever been in similar circumstances to find the same peace.

Confidence that comes from things outside of ourself is very vulnerable and flimsy. That is the confidence of toxic masculinity and the confidence of oppressors. It relies on things being a certain way in order to feel okay about itself. However, if a confidence comes from within, arising from the fullness of your own peace, then you will not feel so easily insecure or threatened.

The murders of Breonna and Philando are senseless, products of ignorance in the shape of racism. I don’t think that is the place to look in order to draw conclusions or find insights about the universe/the divine, although you are of course free to do so. But my advice is to trace your own existence/awareness inward to its source. Then you may begin to uncover answers about meaning and divinity.

As always, we cannot afford to wait until the world changes before we allow ourselves to uncover peace and happiness within. You deserve better.

Just my two cents.

Namaste my friend, much love 🙏🏻

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