Watch Ruth King and Pamela Ayo Yetunde discuss Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter: Race, Faith, and Refuge (LIVE with Q&A)
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Ruth King and Pamela Ayo Yetunde
Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter: Race, Faith, and Refuge (With Q&A)
About This Session
Join summit host Pamela Ayo Yetunde for an intimate discussion with Buddhist teacher Ruth King about “Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter: Race, Faith, and Refuge”—her contribution to the book Black and Buddhist. King, a respected teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition, is the author of Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out and Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible, and she offers Buddhist teachings and anti-racism trainings around the country. Audience members will be invited to send questions for Ruth and Ayo Yetunde during the latter part of the event.
About Ruth King
Ruth King is a celebrated author, educator, and meditation teacher and the founder of Mindful of Race Institute. King leads meditation retreats worldwide and trains leaders and organizations in exploring racism and racial conditioning through a mindfulness-based approach. She is the author of Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From The Inside Out and Healing Rage. Her most recent work is featured in Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom.
You can learn more about Ruth on her website and at Mindful of Race Institute. The Mindful of Race Institute was established to support individuals, organizations, and communities seeking to engage in the inner work of racial healing and social wellbeing. Founded by Ruth King, the Institute offers a range of training programs and interventions that emphasize racial understanding, connection, and accountability.
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD is the co-editor of Black and Buddhist. She is a chaplain and pastoral counselor, co-founder of Center of the Heart, a spiritual wellness organization that focuses on body, behavior, and beliefs. She is also founder of Audre: Spiritual Care for Women with Cancer. Ayo has written for Lion's Roar magazine and has published other books on Buddhism.
Ayo's articles on Buddhism can be found on Lion's Roar and Ayo's books can be found here.
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About This Session
Join summit host Pamela Ayo Yetunde for an intimate discussion with Buddhist teacher Ruth King about “Wholeness Is No Trifling Matter: Race, Faith, and Refuge”—her contribution to the book Black and Buddhist. King, a respected teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition, is the author of Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out and Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible, and she offers Buddhist teachings and anti-racism trainings around the country. Audience members will be invited to send questions for Ruth and Ayo Yetunde during the latter part of the event.
About Ruth King
Ruth King is a celebrated author, educator, and meditation teacher and the founder of Mindful of Race Institute. King leads meditation retreats worldwide and trains leaders and organizations in exploring racism and racial conditioning through a mindfulness-based approach. She is the author of Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From The Inside Out and Healing Rage. Her most recent work is featured in Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom.
You can learn more about Ruth on her website and at Mindful of Race Institute. The Mindful of Race Institute was established to support individuals, organizations, and communities seeking to engage in the inner work of racial healing and social wellbeing. Founded by Ruth King, the Institute offers a range of training programs and interventions that emphasize racial understanding, connection, and accountability.
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, JD, ThD is the co-editor of Black and Buddhist. She is a chaplain and pastoral counselor, co-founder of Center of the Heart, a spiritual wellness organization that focuses on body, behavior, and beliefs. She is also founder of Audre: Spiritual Care for Women with Cancer. Ayo has written for Lion's Roar magazine and has published other books on Buddhism.
Ayo's articles on Buddhism can be found on Lion's Roar and Ayo's books can be found here.
Ruth and Ayo are wise and radiant Dharma jewels!
would like to know title and author of book Ruth refered to several times- person cut her wrists, circles of healing etc. Thank you for this multiday event
Dear Amy, The book is The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara. Smiling. Rhonda
What a wonderful experience: loving, wise, deep and compassionate. I’m giving a standing ovation to Ruth and Ayo and all of the participants. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Ayo posed three powerful and provocative questions, but my pen wasn’t fast enough. May I ask for a reminder of those questions? I have work to do on facing and contemplating them. Thank you one more time, Linda Hoju Strauss lindastrauss9@gmail.com
Powerful. Validating and incredible wisdom being shared so generously. EMAHO!
Just finished listening to Ruth King! Yesterday, Spring Washam! This is a power packed, incredible gathering of STRONG and mindful and heart filled black voices. I am so grateful for this summit. Purchased the book 4 weeks ago after Larry Yang’s talk at Harvard Buddhism and Race series. Looking forward to reading along with the summit.
Looking forward to next talks! ~Anne Marie, Morro Bay CA
The Salt Eaters, by Toni Cade Bambara
Thank you so much for this.
My soul needed to hear this.
I’m still not understanding how I lived in the Oakland Bay Area for 20 year and never came in contact with you until just NOW.
I guess the universe provides what we need when we need it.
Ordering the book NOW.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for the insightful teachings.
This is everything, so grateful.
For Pamela: Would you please post the 3 questions from Ruth’s book? I would like to sit with them a bit. With gratitude for this program & smiles, j
I really enjoyed this session. I am so grateful. The inspiration Mrs. Pam/Mrs.Ruth was amazing.
Stay in Grace
Asé
It was wonderful to hear Ruth King speak. I am somewhat familiar to her meditations through Insight Timer and I feel blessed that I had this hour with her. Thank you.
I have just started to read Mindful of Race, so this is very timely and has primed me for some good stuff ahead! I’m struck by the wisdom and equanimity I sense and feel drawn to look deeper within for the ‘wholeness’ described. Thinking of the healing process as a continual flushing out of the plumbing system, I imagine internalized systemic racism as the places where energy gets blocked and emotions back up, becoming toxic. This insightful and inspiring talk has given me a new metaphor for envisioning the freeing up of energy, love, and life itself. Thank you for your generous time and all the blessings of your work.
Heartfelt thanks Ruth, Ayo and all for this body of work, I can learn so much from your collective wisdom.
I really liked this talk and Q&A.
As a white woman trying to practice the Dharma it really made me look at myself more deeply, and my reactions and triggers.
Thank you for for wisdom time and generosity,
thoroughly enjoyed this dialogue! Continued blessings to all who are working to put this feast together
It was so enlivening to hear Ruth quote from Salteaters. It was one of the ways that I learned that as an organizer that I too needed healing.
I feel blessed to be a part of this summit. As a white woman I am always looking to open my eyes to the blinders privilege has created for me. Thank you for this important conversation.
Thank you for this rich opportunity. I appreciated the process explained around writing–and the reminder to stay out of ego. The questions are thought provoking and certainly a personal challenge.
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, you are an incredible facilitator and interviewer!
I was so excited to find out about this series and about the conversation with Ruth because I am a member of a white women’s Racial Affinity Group as part of my sangha here in Maine, using Ruth’s book Mindfulness of Race as our guide. We’ve been meeting via zoom since last spring and it really has been a heart-opening and transformative experience. As a white lesbian woman I have my own struggles with my white culture but I have over this past year, through the news cycles and through Ruth’s book and the RAG, really understood for the first time that racism is not just another form of bigotry, that it truly is the rotten tooth in our body politic and until we pull it out by the roots, the healed/whole world I want so fervently to live in cannot come to be. And I am so grateful for Ruth’s insights and recommendations to help me start using mindfulness to pull it out of me – thank you, Ruth and thank you, Pamela, for organizing and presenting this wonderful series 🙏❤️
This talk held so much on so many levels in such a short time and left me inspired to learn more, write and dialogue more and practice more. Deep gratitude for the expertise and compassion radiating out from both interviewer and interviewee! A great gift.