Since entering the MSW program at the University of Michigan, it has become abundantly apparent that “identity” has taken stage and is the official University of Michigan School of Social Work buzzword. Students are awash with discussions and assertions regarding the need for sensitivity and awareness of intersectionality of identities, identity based oppression, identity…
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All Pervasive Conditioning: Cultural Assimilation and the Suffocation of Individuality
Culture is the context within which all human interconnectedness occurs, and the intersections of those interconnections is where we find all meaningfulness and all sense of identity. Identity is relational, and relationships necessarily happen within a cultural context; blurred lines delineate the border between the cultural context within which the relationships that shape identity occur,…
Realizing Dependent Designation: The Buddha’s Middle Way
“If you perceive the existence of all things In terms of their essence, Then this perception of all things Will be without the perception of causes and conditions. Effects and causes And agent and action And conditions and arising and ceasing And effects will be rendered impossible. Whatever is dependently co-arisen That…