Welcome to the Buddhist Gemini podcast! Today, I interview one of my dear friends regarding his experiences with emotion as a man. He also shares with me, and gives me permission to ask questions regarding the intersection between his experience as a black man and masculinity. (Just as a disclaimer, it is not the job of black people to explain these things to us white people, nor should we feel compelled to ask these sorts of questions to our black brothers and sisters unless they have agreed to share with us their racial experience in the United States.) 

We discuss dynamics between "white masculinity" and "black masculinity", having the courage to see a therapist, being ghosted, emotional projections, and more. I sprinkle in tid bits of Buddhist philosophy throughout our conversation so that we may all know and understand that we are all the Buddha. We are all the Universe, divine and flowing. :) 

I had hesitated to publish this podcast at this time, as I felt it may not have addressed racial components as much as I had wanted it, or felt that it needed to at this current time (now that we have people't attention.) While it does address some of these dynamics, I feel that it is important that I quickly finish this series and move onto the next, so that we may better understand underlying dynamics within our society at large while we are all in the process of our own human revolutions in addition to helping to assist others on their human revolutions. Please take this knowledge from this conversation and carry it with you into the next series of Buddhist Gemini, so that we will be able to better understand each other as we all grow and learn.