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17.06.2025
40 Minuten
We hope you enjoy this dharma talk from Rebecca Nie, "10
Vows".
GUEST BIO:
ZEN MASTER REBECCA DAWN NIE is the founder of MV Sanctuary and
Vice President of the Maitreya Association for Buddhist College
Chaplains. As Stanford’s Chaplain-Affiliate, she oversees the
Buddhist religious and spiritual life for students, faculty, and
staff. Her offerings ranges from Continental Zen to Buddhist
Yoga, offering healing wisdom for contemporary life through
dharma teaching, translation, and new media art.
Learn more about Rebecca at
http://mvseon.com/
Highlighted Works
Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry by Three Daoist Women (2022,
Shambhala).
Heart Sutra: A Network Audio Technology-Assisted Visual Music
Composition
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03.06.2025
38 Minuten
Rebecca Nie talks about the common misconception that China is an
ethnic monolith, and how she identifies with her Huaren heritage.
Although her spiritual path was discouraged in her early life,
she discusses being connected to a centuries old heritage of a
resilient Dharma that allows us to dream without limitations even
through turbulent times.
Rebecca also mentions a book-in-progress which will be a
translation of Chan Zen Master poems responding to turbulent
historical moments, pointing out how there is much more to Zen
poetry than peaceful monks in serene mountains.
GUEST BIO:
ZEN MASTER REBECCA DAWN NIE is the founder of MV Sanctuary and
Vice President of the Maitreya Association for Buddhist College
Chaplains. As Stanford’s Chaplain-Affiliate, she oversees the
Buddhist religious and spiritual life for students, faculty, and
staff. Her offerings ranges from Continental Zen to Buddhist
Yoga, offering healing wisdom for contemporary life through
dharma teaching, translation, and new media art.
Learn more about Rebecca at
http://mvseon.com/
Highlighted Works
Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry by Three Daoist Women (2022,
Shambhala).
Heart Sutra: A Network Audio Technology-Assisted Visual Music
Composition
HOST
REVEREND DANA TAKAGI (she/her) is a retired professor
of Sociology and zen priest, practicing zen since 1998. She spent
33 years teaching sociology and Asian American history at UC
Santa Cruz, and she is a past president of the Association for
Asian American Studies.
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20.05.2025
11 Minuten
Mushim Patricia Ikeda is an internationally-known secular
mindfulness and Buddhist teacher working primarily with justice
activists and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)
meditation practitioners and with people with disabilities and
chronic illnesses. A core teacher at East Bay Meditation Center
in Oakland, California, she is an author whose writing has been
published in Lion's Roar, Tricycle, Buddhadharma and various
anthologies. Mushim was selected by Lion's Roar Buddhist media
magazine as one of twenty-six "Great Buddhist Teachers" in the
January 2022 issue.
Connect with Mushim at:
Website: www.mushimikeda.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mushim.ikeda
Bluesky: mushimikeda
X / Twitter: @MushimCA1
Instagram: mushimikeda
LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/mushim-patricia-ikeda-5307279/
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06.05.2025
55 Minuten
Secular & Buddhist teacher Mushim Patricia Ikeda in convo
with Rev. Liên on how mature practice can help us deal with the
current conditions of our world.
GUEST
Mushim Patricia Ikeda is an internationally-known secular
mindfulness and Buddhist teacher working primarily with justice
activists and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)
meditation practitioners and with people with disabilities and
chronic illnesses. A core teacher at East Bay Meditation Center
in Oakland, California, she is an author whose writing has been
published in Lion's Roar, Tricycle, Buddhadharma and various
anthologies. Mushim was selected by Lion's Roar Buddhist media
magazine as one of twenty-six "Great Buddhist Teachers" in the
January 2022 issue.
Connect with Mushim at:
Website: www.mushimikeda.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mushim.ikeda
Bluesky: mushimikeda
X / Twitter: @MushimCA1
Instagram: mushimikeda
LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/mushim-patricia-ikeda-5307279/
HOST:
REV. LIÊN SHUTT (she/they) is a recognized leader in the
movement that breaks through the wall of American white-centered
convert Buddhism to welcome people of all backgrounds into a
contemporary, engaged Buddhism. As an ordained Zen priest,
licensed social worker, and longtime educator/teacher of
Buddhism, Shutt represents new leadership at the nexus of
spirituality and social justice, offering a special warm welcome
to Asian Americans, all BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, and those
seeking a “home” in the midst of North American society’s
reckoning around racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia.
Shutt is a founder of Access to Zen (2014). You can learn more
about her work at AccessToZen.org. Her new book,
Home is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold
Path. See all her offerings at EVENTS
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15.04.2025
5 Minuten
June Kaililani Tanoue, Kumu Hula, reads her blog post, "Dwell
Nowhere and Browse That." Listen as she reflects on a
conversation with her husband Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse.
Together they are cofounders of Zen Life & Meditation Center
of Chicago. You can find the written piece on the Halau i Ka Pono
website.
About June
June Ryushin Tanoue, B.S., MPH is co-founder of Zen Life &
Meditation Center. Practicing Zen since 1993, she received
Transmission in 2014 as a fully empowered Zen Teacher/ Zen
Buddhist Priest and Inka as a Roshi in 2022.
June is a Kumu Hula and founded Halau I Ka Pono, the Hula School
of Chicago in 2009.
Read June's piece, "The Hula Sutra" at Lion's Roar.
zlmc.org
halauikapono.org
Halau I Ka Pono Facebook
Instagram: @JuneTanoue
June's blog posts: https://halauikapono.org/news
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Über diesen Podcast
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.comFurther Info at:
AccessToZen.org
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