Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers
Claim This Podcastby Rev. Liên Shutt & Rev. Dana Takagi
Podcast Overview
<p>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. <br><br><b>Season 3 & 4 description: Hosted by Rev. Liên Shutt & Rev. Dana Takagi</b><br>This season, we will have a new focus: Uplifting and Forwarding Asian American/Asian Diasporic Buddhist Experiences in the West.<br><br>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. <br><br><b>A theme we'll be using to help guide our conversations is The Disquiet</b> - 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. </p><p><br><b>What do we hope is the outcome of this podcast? </b> 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.<br><br><b>Thank you to the Hemera Foundation for their generous support of Season 3 & 4! </b><br><br>Contact us at: <b>Info.Access2Zen@gmail.com<br></b>Further Info at: <b>AccessToZen.org</b></p>
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Recent Episodes
March 17, 2026
Well-Being Chant & Reflection Meditation with Rev. Liên Shutt
As our world continues to tumble, here's a Soto Zen chant for Well-being. Kannon, or Kanzeon, are the Japanese names for the Bodhisattva of Compassion. This chant is calling on her/them to support us to be with "the cries of the world." Traditionally, just a chant. Here, Rev. has embedded it with a meditation, offering guidance to reflect on how to practice being with and be nourished by our kind heart-minds, aching in the midst of difficulties. May our practice be for the benefit of all bein...
March 3, 2026
Reverend Joseph Cheah: Lived Experience as the Core of Spiritual Practice
Reverend Joseph Cheah sits down with Dana to discuss his research and writings which push back against dominant understandings of Asian religions that were propagated by Western frameworks. He brings his combination of familial and cultural Buddhist roots with his Catholic faith and livelihood to also offer the idea that anti-hate activism by Asian organizers is a deep kind of spiritual social practice in action. GUEST REVEREND JOSEPH CHEAH OSM, Ph.D. is Professor of Religious Studies...
February 17, 2026
All Our Ancient Twisted Karma w/ Rev. Dana Takagi
This month on Opening Dharma Access, we continue to shift from our regular schedule to focus on the ongoing ICE occupation and state-supported destruction impacting the globe. Rev. Dana Takagi reflects on her personal experience of returning to some foundational practice tools during a time of grieving, and the necessity as practitioners to double down in times of intense hatred and anger. She also talks about chanting and acknowledging one's own ancient twisted karma, always being a work in ...
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- What is Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers?
<p>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. <br><br><b>Season 3 & 4 description: Hosted by Rev. Liên Shutt & Rev. Dana Takagi</b><br>This season, we will have a new focus: Uplifting and Forwarding Asian American/Asian Diasporic Buddhist Experiences in the West.<br><br>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. <br><br><b>A theme we'll be using to help guide our conversations is The Disquiet</b> - 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. </p><p><br><b>What do we hope is the outcome of this podcast? </b> 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.<br><br><b>Thank you to the Hemera Foundation for their generous support of Season 3 & 4! </b><br><br>Contact us at: <b>Info.Access2Zen@gmail.com<br></b>Further Info at: <b>AccessToZen.org</b></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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