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Buddhism has been criticized for espousing detachment from others, but though Buddhism promotes nonattachment, it does not state whether its practices actually undermine the ability to be in relationship with others. Buddhism has also been criticized for promoting nihilism, yet it has not been well understood how teachings on no self actually promote healthy relationality. Alicia, Norene, Deborah, Marcella, and Mary discuss what no self means to them.
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Edward Muzika, “Object Relations Theory, Buddhism, and the Self: Synthesis of Eastern and Western Approaches,” International Philosophical Quarterly 30, no. 1 (March 1990), 60.
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Deborah is referring to the police shooting of the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.
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Dharma, Color, and Culture: New Voices in Western Buddhism is edited by Hilda Gutiérrez Baldoquin and was published by Parallax Press in 2004.
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Yetunde, P.A. (2018). Self, No Self, and the Paradoxes of Self and No Self Preservation. In: Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology. Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94454-8_4
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