What the world needs now... and always 
A letter from Kadam Lucy

Happy Juneteenth!
 
I wanted to check in to say hello to you all, hoping you’re all well and enjoying the livestream. Please still be safe and careful out there, COVID has by no means left us yet. 
 
We posted this the other day, and I will put it here too in case you missed it:
 
“No matter your race, religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, age, or otherwise, everyone is welcome at KMC Colorado and all Kadampa Centers. Our teachings do not discriminate against anyone as they are founded in the equality of all beings — human and animal alike. We believe that everyone can benefit from meditation and Buddhism. With inner peace, wisdom, and compassion we can all make a better world now and for generations to come.”
 
Join us in seeking truth, compassion, and peace.

Dharma has the answers to all our inner problems of delusions that, if we are honest, we all harbor if we are still in samsara, including ignorance, confusion, and umpteen varieties of mistaken discrimination :). By working on these inner problems, and improving our love, compassion, and wisdom — all within the framework of our boundless peaceful Buddha nature — it turns out that we also become more effective at dealing with outer problems such as systemic racism, animal abuse, sexism, and so on, as well as any of the other samsaric problems that show up in our daily lives. At some point we no longer have any trepidation or discomfort in facing what shows up in our mind or in our world because through training we have become a fearless Bodhisattva.

For example, Buddha taught that living beings have no faults, that they are our kind mothers, that only delusions have faults. Delusions are the enemies of living beings, not each other. Within that context, we can channel our anger into destroying the real enemies of us all, our delusions. Meanwhile, Buddha also gave many teachings on how to recognize and eliminate our own mistaken discriminations based on feeling self-centered or prideful or defensive or guilty, etc etc., all within the context that we can deal with all of this without panicking! — these attitudes are not us, they are simply clouds in an infinite sky.