Ruth King: Mindful of Race

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Ruth King is an Insight Meditation teacher, life coach, diversity consultant, and the author of Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible. She is publishing her new book, Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, in collaboration with Sounds True. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Ruth about the personal experiences that led to writing Mindful of Race and why the heart can be "a mass weapon of healing." They talk about the different ways we can interpret current racial narratives and why it takes honest self-examination to discover how one has benefited from a racist system. Ruth explains how mindfulness can open us up to having difficult conversations around racism, colonialism, and other forms of systemic oppression. Finally, Tami and Ruth discuss how "life is not personal, permanent, or perfect" and the necessity of cultivating compassion in all walks of life. (74 minutes)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True.
0:04.0	My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True.
0:08.0	And I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation.
0:12.0	The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to
0:26.8	transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:39.3	The Sounds True Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities
0:46.9	in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:54.0	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter,
0:58.4	please visit sounds true foundation.org. You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:07.0	Today my guest is Ruth King.
1:12.0	Ruth King is an international teacher in the Insight Meditation
1:15.7	Tradition, a recognized diversity consultant to leaders and organizations, a life coach and the author of Healing Rage and a new book, Mindful of Race,
1:25.0	and a new book, Mindful of Race,
1:28.6	transforming racism from the inside out.
1:31.6	She's also the creator of the Mindful of Race Training Program.
1:36.4	This conversation with Ruth King is provocative, it's challenging, and it asks us to look at ourselves in new and different ways with an open heart.
1:48.8	Here's my conversation with Ruth King. I want to begin Ruth by having you introduce both yourself and your new book
2:11.1	mindful of race to our audience
2:14.6	by sharing a bit about the rivers in your own life,
2:19.2	the antecedents that came together to form the writing of mindful of race.
2:27.0	Oh, thank you, Tammy.
2:30.0	Yeah, it's a big topic and it's a big question.
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