The DU Interfaith Student Alliance ACTION TEAM (acronym forthcoming) traveled to the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of the Rockies last night for an evening of education and dialogue. The Interfaith Alliance of Colorado organized the event as part of its regular series, and Acharya ji Kailash Chandra Upadhyay, the head priest at the temple, was kind enough to host us.
We did a bit of background on dialogue work and various techniques for listening and voicing and such, and then Acharya Kailash spoke for some time about Hinduism and South Asian belief systems. We retreated downstairs and had a bunch of interesting food. There were many grapes, and they appeared in different forms in a few dishes. I've never seen so many grapes. This is why I mentioned them in the title.
We settled down into separate groups to dialogue about what it means to live in a "culture of fear," what fear means to us, and what we can do to allay both our own fear and the fear of others. We had about an hour of really good dialogue - the kind that doesn't necessarily blow one's mind but that does give one a more rounded idea of a particular thing. In this case, I gained a better understanding of how fear can affect the lives of those around me, even if I myself am oblivious to that fear.
It was all very nice, well-run, and re-warding. Fear is bad; grapes are good.
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We did a bit of background on dialogue work and various techniques for listening and voicing and such, and then Acharya Kailash spoke for some time about Hinduism and South Asian belief systems. We retreated downstairs and had a bunch of interesting food. There were many grapes, and they appeared in different forms in a few dishes. I've never seen so many grapes. This is why I mentioned them in the title.
We settled down into separate groups to dialogue about what it means to live in a "culture of fear," what fear means to us, and what we can do to allay both our own fear and the fear of others. We had about an hour of really good dialogue - the kind that doesn't necessarily blow one's mind but that does give one a more rounded idea of a particular thing. In this case, I gained a better understanding of how fear can affect the lives of those around me, even if I myself am oblivious to that fear.
It was all very nice, well-run, and re-warding. Fear is bad; grapes are good.
Technorati Tags: hinduism, interfaith
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