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The Elephant’s Footprint

With Ralph Steele recorded on March 21, 2021.

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Looking at The Four Noble Truths as the way to give us guidance in our world and how to work with racial separation in our Global Dharma sanghas. Is having teachers of Color and Dharma community racial sensitivity training the right way or wrong way and is that enough?

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