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 & 4 description: Hosted by Rev. Liên Shutt & 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 it 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 as a wisdom mirror for organized Buddhism in the West.
Thank you to the Hemera Foundation for their generous support of Season 3 & 4!
Contact us at: Info.Access2Zen@gmail.com
Further Info at: AccessToZen.org
Episodes
"How Am I Going to Serve My Purpose Today?" with Eunji Son
Life Aching for Itself: Zazen & Working with Difficult Emotions
Buddhism as Engaged & Political with Siddhesh Mukerji
Morning Chant, guided meditation, and Offering of Merit (Ékoku) w/ Judy Yushin Nakatomi
Belonging to Zen, Belonging to Shin: Two Traditions, One Engaged Heart w/ Judy Yushin Nakatomi
How Thinking Drives Our Beliefs & Actions: with Rev. Liên
The Struggle to Construct Racial Meaning with Michael Omi
I Vow to Save All Beings: Insisting on My Own Humanity with Rev. Dana Takagi
Our Heritage of Othering and Resistance with Historian Alice Yang
"10 Vows" with Rebecca Nie
Big Heart Resilience with Rebecca Nie
Heart Sutra Fragment 3: Introduction & Reading by Mushim Ikeda
Grow Up in the Dharma with Mushim Patricia Ikeda
June Tanoue Reads "Dwell Nowhere and Browse That"
Hula As Resistance w/ June Tanoue
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
