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Racism is a social justice issue around the world and the Buddist Eightfold Path can help reduce or eliminate this issue and help everyone be ethical.

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Racism is the most prevalent of all hate crimes with 40% in the USA

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"Canadians have a tendency not to be less racist than Americans, but less loud about it."
Racism is still a big problem in Canada and Buddhist teachings can help reduce or end it.  Global News found that 25% of people have experienced racism in Canada.

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Deconstructing Racism with Buddhist Tools

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Deconstructing Racism with Buddhist Tools

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Video with overview of Buddhist ways to end racism.

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Deconstructing Racism with Buddhist Tools

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Buddhist teachers Ven. Lekshe and Ven. Pannavati name specific Buddhist methodologies that help us address inequality, gently but fearlessly. NorthAmericanBuddhistAlliance.org hosts a series of webinars focused on Gender and Race in a New Era.

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The Middle Way approach can used to end racism.

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Use the Four Noble Truths and know the truth.
The Four Noble Truths apply to racism and can be used to help reduce it.
1. Life is suffering and racism is suffering that humans inflict on others. Racism is the problem but it's temporary and can end.
2. Racism is caused by greed or desire and comes from ignorance. When people are being racist they are ignorant as skin colour doesn't change the person you are. Racism can also come from greed to be better than others. Racism comes from perspective and this can be changed.
3. The cure for racism is to end the cause which is ignorance and greed. We are the solution to end racism.
4. The treatment for ending racism is to follow the Eightfold Path in thoughts and actions.

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Free your mind of evil.
To end racisim we have to start with determination in our beliefs with thinking that we are all equal and that our appearance doesn't make us different from any other person. We need to eliminate greed, anger and ignorance by keeping our thoughts "right" all the time. This can take a lot of effort and thought at first but the more we keep our thoughts right on equality the closer we are to end racism.

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quote the buddha's Kalama Sutra, no followers, tropicalnomad com

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Say nothing that hurts others.
To end racism we have to speak only with words of compassion, words of truth, words of praise and words of selflessness.

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Resist evil.
To end racism we have to be diligent and courageous to move in the direction of non-racism at all times and not let others opinions affect ours. We need to notice even the small things like racist comments or jokes and not take them lightly.

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Respect life.
To end racism we have to earn a living without harming others especially based on skin colour. We have to have a noble profession that doesn't harm others or ourselves. Hiring shouldn't be based on race at all. We shouldn't sterotype people's jobs by their race and treat everyone equally.

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Work for the good of others.
To end racism we have to behave right by not harming anyone especially based on their race. We need to use our actions to treat everyone with respect and equality. We need to be compassionate towards others regardless of their appearance.

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Control your thoughts.
To end racisim we need to keep our minds on the right path. To do this we have to have a pure and aware mind and need to take time to be mindful to feelings and the imperfections of the mind. We need to remember that since we're human and not perfect we have to be diligent to be non-racist.

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Everyone is the same no matter what their colour. We are natural just like these rocks in the background and should be treated the same. We should use the Eightfold Path to end racism.

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https://www.slideshare.net/TohokuInternationalSchool/racism-presentation-2471015

http://facts.net/racism/

https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/what-the-buddha-taught-us-about-race/

https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/what-the-buddha-taught-us-about-race/

https://globalnews.ca/news/3556823/racism-in-canada/

https://learningrmps.wordpress.com/tag/benefits-of-eightfold-path/

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Practice meditation.
To end racism we focus the mind and settle our distracted bodies by daily meditation so we can constantly improve ourselves to be non-racist. By meditation we clarify our mind and it leads us to less ignorance.