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How to find belonging in spiritually homogeneous communities

I have been the only Black person in my Buddhist sangha for three years and I love the practice but I am exhausted by always being the diversity.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The longing for spiritual community can be complicated by the burden of representing difference in spaces that claim universality but lack diversity.

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