A reminder from Thich Nhat Hanh ...

https://youtu.be/u24OR-FN78w?t=760 (12:40) ... "One day, a leader of the native American community came to me. We met in Vermont, and he invited me to join him in Europe and others to speak about the plight, the suffering of the native Americans, to draw the attention of the world to that suffering. I invited [him] to sit down and have a cup of tea with me, and very slowly I tried to tell him that the first step is not that. The first step is that he go home to his community and help his community to practice these kind of basic things; like the 5 mindfulness trainings: creating brotherhood, sisterhood, awakening ... to free our selves from wrong perceptions, from discrimination. Because, discrimination does not only exist in them. Discrimination does exist in each of us. We have both Hell and Paradise in us. They also [do]. So, if we are capable of touching paradise and transforming hell in us, we will be able to help them touch the paradise in them and transform hell in them. They are no longer our enemies. They are the people we want to help. But, we have to help our self first. It's not a problem of protesting. Because we can see them as victims of their wrong perceptions, of their own ignorance, and fear, and violence. And that is why, to me, it is very very crucial, it is very urgent to go home to ourselves, and to our community, and to begin the real practice. "