Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & Practitioners
Welcome to "Opening Dharma Access," a podcast where we hear stories from BIPOC teachers & practitioners about their Dharma experiences and practice, and how those inform the ways they are sharing & practicing the Dharma today.
Season 3 description: Hosted by Rev. Liên & Rev. Dana Takagi
This season, we will have a new focus: Uplifting and Forwarding Asian American/Asian Diasporic Buddhist Experiences in the West.
With our guests and audience, we will explore the specificities of Asian American/Asian Diasporic experiences. We take as given that there are generational differences (hence the historical moment matters!) and we hope to also delve into Asian family norms and values, our inchoate understanding of ancestor worship, issues of identity, representation, stereotypes about sexuality and sexual identity, and Asian American depression.
A theme we'll be using to help guide our conversations is The Disquiet - a term we are adapting from writer/poet Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet) -- which, in our view, signals a complex recognition of self, mind, and body. The evidence for the foregoing includes scholarly research indexed in aggregate statistics on depression, youth suicide, and other issues in immigrant or first-generation families. While Asian Americans are not alone in experiencing trauma, the racial languages and discourses of othering are different for us than for other groups.
What do we hope is the outcome of this podcast? Our first aim is to give voice to the range and depth of Buddhism in Asian and Asian American generations. We hope, in doing so, we help to shine a light on the limited or myopic envisioning of race in primarily white sanghas. Asian and Asian American diasporic truths about practice are a teaching for contemporary dharma organizations and centers. We recognize the depth and range of Asian and Asian Diasporic Buddhists is a wisdom mirror for organized Buddhism in the West.
Thank you to the Hemera Foundation for their generous support of Season 3!
Contact us at: Info.Access2Zen@gmail.com
Further Info at: AccessToZen.org
Episodes
June Tanoue Reads "Dwell Nowhere and Browse That"
Hula As Resistance
Season 4 Premiere: Engaged Asian American/Asian Diaspora Buddhism for Our Times
Season 3 Compilation - A Beautiful Web of Asian Heritage Buddhists
Breath, Perfect Harmony, and a History More Beautiful and More Terrible w/ Rev. Dana Takagi
Widening Our View and The Challenge of Seeing Perfection w/ Rev. Dana Takagi
Meditation on Safety with Rev. Liên Shutt
Talk: Healing in Time & Space with Rev. Liên Shutt
Meditating on Trees with Ram Appalaraju
Inauguration Healing Space with Rev. Liên Shutt
Eco-Dharma Care with Ram Appalaraju
"Learning From the 60s" - Lisa Nakamura Reads Audre Lorde
Platforms for Zazen: The Cushion to the Computer w/ Lisa Nakamura
"The Practice of Staying" with Yenkuei Chuang
Insight Dialogue & Further Relationality with Yenkuei Chuang
Part 2 with Dr. Paula Arai "There is no Buddhism without Women" (& forthcoming book!)
"There is no Buddhism without Women" with Dr. Paula Arai (Part 1)
Connection is Vital: A Re-Visit with Bo Hee Moon (+Finished version of poem!)
"Meeting with my Asian Sangha Tonight" with Poet Bo Hee Moon
Meeting the Mentor with Ryan Lee Wong
Zen Practice As Community Building with Ryan Lee Wong
"Compassionate Touch Meditation" with Sharon Suh
"Silence is Not the Way" with Professor Sharon Suh
What Happens When We Don't Get What We Want? with JP deGuzman
O'kagesama-de (All thanks are due to you...) with Reverend Jean Paul Contreras deGuzman
