Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
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- Suffering as a teacher: how Baldwin and Lorde investigated suffering in their own lives--and how expanded and disrupted interpretations of the Dharma
- Denial, impermanence, and death: on Baldwin's exploration of white supremacy and fear of death and Lorde's understanding of illness and inevitable change
- Ultimate and relative reality: how honoring race, gender, sexuality, and difference lies at the heart of Buddhist liberation
- Karma and not-self: how the doctrine of karma can be reclaimed to cultivate inner liberation and support activists working to dismantle oppression
- Anger and compassion: how we metabolize internalized rage, reject hatred, and embrace compassion toward transformation
- Erotic paths to enlightenment: on the power of sensuality and erotic energy; rejecting dominant heteronormativity; and attaining enlightenment through sexual union
This book offers space for emerging conversations within spiritual communities--ones that don't shy away from difficult or uncomfortable truths; that center--and celebrate--Black, queer, radical thought; and that embrace the ways our inner lives, creative fire, sensuality, and expressions of love can ignite and sustain revolutionary liberation.
