As I always do, I am thinking about how my mindfulness practice supports my racial justice work.
These are meta-thoughts: thinking about how I'm thinking about my work.
How do I channel the anger, resentment, and disdain I feel toward a so-called justice system that is clearly unjust?
How do I keep hope alive when things seem so hopeless?
How do I stay in my power when I'm feeling powerless?
How do I not submit to fear and hatred, and instead center empathy and compassion and love?
How do I find connection when the feelings of disconnection are so strong?
How do I find truth when it's enveloped by so much falsity?
How do I think and speak and act with wisdom amidst so much ignorance?
There are no easy answers to these questions. And if I don't ask them, if I don't work toward answering them, then I remain stagnant, reactionary, complicit.
If I don't center mindfulness I too easily get seduced down a devolving path of spiritual squalor that does me and everybody absolutely no good.
Injustice happens all around us. Injustice, sadly, will continue to happen all around us.
Injustice tries to beat us into submission, mocks our efforts to seek justice, is merciless in encouraging us to give up.
But I will not submit. I will not stop seeking. I will not give up.
I am here for the long haul. Mindfully.