Thread by @KriteeKanko

India is now a "chamber of horrors". I haven't experienced suffering so deep & paralyzing! In this @Lionsroar piece I share how to help India breathe, how to confront oppression in the long term, organizations to support and how to send loving-kindness buff.ly/3t5ogSZ 1/n

https://twitter.com/LionsRoar/status/1388176460033183747

It has been absolutely brutal soaking in the collective trauma of my people. My family, friends & colleagues live in Delhi - epicenter of the current crisis.

It feels like everyone I know is on their knees begging for oxygen, medicines & places to bury/cremate the dead. 2/n

I have experienced anything like this before. I have gone through feeling utterly frozen and unable to act or grieve, to crying bitterly or being in fight and flight organizing fundraising campaigns.

Nights have been sleepless. Days have been surreal. 3/n

Indians are rising up to help each other in the spirit of mutual aid, we are also feeling collectively traumatized. I’m asking the wider community around the world to step up and help the India breathe and help Indians rest, grieve and heal. 4/n #IndiaNeedsOxygen

If you are inclined and are trained to do any kinds of loving kindness practices like metta or tonglen, please pass on your spiritual, psychic and energetic support to us. lionsroar.com/how-to-practic… 5/n

If you can contribute financially, here are three options I am trusting right now:

1. Oxygen for India for oxygen concentrators bit.ly/331DNsa

2. Mission Oxygen for hospitals bit.ly/3aRvMuy

3. Goonj (Food & disaster relief for poor): bit.ly/333tcgy

If you care about long term causes of this crisis, please read work of Arundhati Roy (In @guardian) or @VidyaKrishnan (In @TheAtlantic or @thecaravanindia).

As a Buddhist, I know institutions and systems of our society co-arise with us. Institutions are not divine reality. 7/n

Decades of ecological plunder at the planetary level and international trade/patent laws haven't helped. The immediate cause, as in other parts of the world ruled by right wing governments, is India’s response and approach to the COVID crisis, including... 8/n

...neglecting science, allowing mass election rallies + Hindu religious festivals & usurping money donated for COVID relief. They have also suppressed journalists who are trying to speak the truth by demanding that social-media including @Twitter delete posts critical of the govt

We need to skillfully & compassionately confront the systems that have brought these crimes against humanity to India. I'm personally devoted to thinking about the long term resistance to the forces across the world that are at the root of climate crisis & racial injustices. 10/n

So donate, pray or send loving kindness. If you are inclined, check out “Dharma of Resistance” — a six-month long online course starting May 15 to resist in ways that are aligned with Kingian-Gandhian Nonviolence & Buddhism and are trauma-informed! n/n
oneearthsangha.org/programs/dharm…

Please help India breathe. Asking #climatetwitter & Buddhists for amplification @bethsawin @TricksyRaccoon @barbaraeford1 @OmanReagan @keya_chatterjee @DrKWilkinson @dchungyalpa @MaryHeglar @agleig @LamaRod1 @KHayhoe @Jorgesays @GlobalEcoGuy @billmckibben @MushimCA1 @payalclimate