abstract:

This essay offers a reflection on the author's personal experience with the global pandemic, which was experienced as an unrooting of self from a US-borne identity to one committed to the "Be Kind" politics of Aotearoa New Zealand. The author discusses how Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's call to kindness triggered the author's desire to center love as a personal-political project through the contemplative practices encouraged by the spiritual discipline of sadhana. The ensuing "pandemic story" is thus a journey of what the author thinks a politics of love requires: self-contemplation, reflection and transformation, and the recognition that liberation hinges on our obligations to others. The process revealed how separation normalizes inequality and abuse and ultimately reaffirms the need for a "new normal" that prioritizes a politics of love and collective compassion.

摘要：

这篇文章反映了作者在全球大流行中的个人经历，这是一种从美国身份到致力于新西兰 Aotearoa 的“善待”政治的自我脱离的经历。论述总理贾辛达·阿德恩对善良的呼叫触发如何通过沉思实践作者的愿望中心爱当作个人政治计划鼓励的精神修炼仪轨. 因此，随之而来的“大流行故事”是作者认为的爱情政治所要求的旅程：自我沉思、反思和转变，以及认识到解放取决于我们对他人的义务。这个过程揭示了分离如何使不平等和虐待正常化，并最终重申需要一种“新常态”，优先考虑爱和集体同情的政治。