Sangha Is All
An embodied awareness community
Community Identity Statement:
Sangha Is All is an awake and awakening community working toward the arising of the next Buddha as community. We do this through dedicated practice in the ways that suit us best as individuals, meditation, yoga, tai chi, Focusing, resting, sharing our unique wisdom, and by simply being connected. We are not insular; we actively practice with, support, and promote other practice communities with aims that are similar to and supportive of ours.
Founder’s Identity Statement:
I Identifiy as a spiritual being incarnate in a body that is racialized, sexualized, and parsed into many other categories by the culture I live in. I reject this deconstruction while at the same time I accept that such categorization is the current norm. I am descended from peoples who lived in the western part of the landmass of Asia that we call Europe. Historically colder and darker than some other continental areas, European heritage affects the melanin and other biomolecules in my body and consequently my skin is of a relatively light hue, my hair texture is smooth, my hair color is relatively light (although I dye it purple), and, for better or worse, I am accumulating abundant wrinkles and sagging skin as I age. Society racializes me as white. In cultural terms, my body is considered chronically ill and disabled. In functional terms, my body is my teacher and my heroine, providing my spirit and soul a beautiful and vibrant home in this relative world and inviting me into the present moment with every breath.
I am not an expert. I am not a teacher. I am not an enlightened one. I am simply a person practicing on the path with the identities I embody who invites all beings to practice with me in that way.