First, what is your system of Tranz/cendence/formation?
Second, who shared/showed you how to feel better after you lost
someone or after something injurious happened to you?
Was it your brother/sister, bhikku/bbikkumi, coach, chief, counselor, daoshi, diviner,
elder, guardian, Iman, loved one, minister, mom/dad, monk, nun, priest/priestess,
pujari/archaka, rabbi, sensie, shaman, teacher?
Third, what heals you and helps you recover from loss or injuries,
especially those inflicted upon you by another human?
What action, art making, awe-struck experience or epiphany, ceremony, doctrine, fable, hope,
image, myth, phenomena, practice, prayer, rationale/cognition, ritual, song or psalm, spiritual
belief, stories, sublime (or terrifying) climatic, environemental, landscape or wildlife encounter,
symbol, totem (or animal) spirit, text or thought?
Fourth which item or sensory pattern brings you
spiritual comfort, joy, protection and recovery?
An amulet, artifact, artwork, baptism, bath, beads, bread, chalice, celebration, chant, cloth,
colors, costume/wardrobe, dance, drink, icon, key, liturgy, mandala, meal, medicine bag/its contents,
movement, pattern, prayer, rainbow, relic, robe, sculpture, smoke, song, stone, veil, water or wine?
Fifth, how do you recover from animus diversitas
perpetuated against you, or, permeating
our community, nation, school, society,
workplace or worship place?
Or,
Sixth, how did you shed a bias in favor of
accommodation, inclusion, respect for another
human whom you initially or previously disrespected?
(Via, discrimination, faith shame, cognitive ability disdain, ability-based animus,
racist malignancy, sexism or gender or sex-based hostility or violence?)
Seventh, what belief/energy/philosophy/ritual
such as love, mana, mantra, or holy spirit
helps you to overcome cruelty, injury or meanness?
Or,
Eighth, what helps you enjoy compassion, courage, creativity,
faith, fun, gratitude, hope, humility, joy, or strength?
Exercise the ability to appreciate wonderful people?
Or, conversely,
assess the not so wonderful ones who
exercise or present a potential for harm as per their words and actions?
Assist those in need and be charitable?
Avoid judgment/contempt, believe in the eternal, challenge what is fundamentally wrong
–that which generates injury or suppression of others or the truth?
Create, devote time to your beliefs and soul, embrace grace?
Enjoy differences?
Enjoy reality’s abundant diversity in animals, lands, peoples, places and cultures?
Feel joy, forgive transgressions, give thanks for blessings?
Inspire others by action and comfort to heal?
Inspire others to act peacefully?
Listen to someone who has
words of guidance for you?
Listen to someone in need?
Make art, make peace, make medicine, meditate, mediate,
praise the good, pray, provide protection, pursue the profound, rejoice in the splendor,
relish the nourishing, speak the truth under pressure, surrender the pain and loss from injustice?
Strive to be enlightened and just and to transform?
To whom do you turn for protection?