Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & Practitioners

By Rev. Liên Shutt

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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 5 description: Hosted by Rev. Liên Shutt
As many of you know, we no longer have funding for this podcast. Thus, for now, as this is an Access to Zen podcast, we'll share insights from Rev. Liên Shutt; and then from other BIPOC teachers as it comes to us.

Contact us at:  Info.Access2Zen@gmail.com
Further Info at: AccessToZen.org


Episode Date
Spoon Buddha: Excerpt from A2Z Kindness Retreat with Rev. Liên Shutt
Sep 15, 2026
Kindness of the Ancestors Meditation with Rev. Liên
Sep 01, 2026
sitting with arrows: the Dharma of Loneliness and the Sallatha sutta with Rev. Syd Yang
Aug 18, 2026
Special Feature! The Dharma of Loneliness Podcast with host Rev. Syd Yang! "If Loneliness is a Best Friend, Then What?" with guest Rev. Liên Shutt!
Aug 01, 2026
Onward Commitment & Support to Enacting Our Values with Rev. Liên Shutt
Jul 21, 2026
Rahil Rojiani and Practicing in Our Stretch Zones with the 5th Precept of Non-Intoxication
Jul 07, 2026
Speaking Truths Through the Eightfold Path with bruni dávila
Jun 16, 2026
How to be safe with sexuality and not hurt with Rev. Willie Mukei Smith
Jun 02, 2026
Precept of Not Stealing/Promoting Space-Equity with Rev. Dana Takagi
May 19, 2026
Precepts for Skillful Engagement in Turbulent Times: 3 Ways to Practice Precepts & P1/Non-Harming with Rev Liên Shutt
May 05, 2026
Season 4 Compilation of Interviews: Asian American & Asian Diaspora Buddhists Helping Define Buddhism Today!
Apr 22, 2026
Season 4 Wrap-Up: Can "What is AA & AD Buddhism" Be Answered? with Rev. Liên Shutt & Rev. Dana Takagi
Apr 07, 2026
Well-Being Chant & Reflection Meditation with Rev. Liên Shutt
Mar 17, 2026
Reverend Joseph Cheah: Lived Experience as the Core of Spiritual Practice
Mar 03, 2026
All Our Ancient Twisted Karma w/ Rev. Dana Takagi
Feb 17, 2026
Ideas for Practicing Dharma in the Midst of Fascism w/ Rev. Dana Takagi
Feb 03, 2026
5 Ways to Respond to the Cries of the World (aka Activism from Giving) with Rev. Liên Shutt
Jan 28, 2026
Asian American Feminist Buddhist Rage, Trauma, and Self-Love: Reading Excerpt with Sharon Suh (Emergent Dharma)
Jan 20, 2026
Being with the Body in the Body: Excerpt Reading with Syd Yang (Emergent Dharma)
Jan 13, 2026
Asian American Feminist Buddhists: Undefined! with Prof. Sharon Suh & Rev. Syd Yang
Jan 06, 2026
Rev. Dana Takagi Speaks on Eiheiji's First Teaching Nun, Yuko Yamada
Dec 16, 2025
Reintroducing Contemplative Zen in Japan w/ Abbot Yuko Yamada
Dec 02, 2025
Water Offering with Eunji Son
Nov 18, 2025
"How Am I Going to Serve My Purpose Today?" with Eunji Son
Nov 04, 2025
Life Aching for Itself: Zazen & Working with Difficult Emotions
Oct 22, 2025
Buddhism as Engaged & Political with Siddhesh Mukerji
Oct 07, 2025
Morning Chant, guided meditation, and Offering of Merit (Ékoku) w/ Judy Yushin Nakatomi
Sep 16, 2025
Belonging to Zen, Belonging to Shin: Two Traditions, One Engaged Heart w/ Judy Yushin Nakatomi
Sep 02, 2025
How Thinking Drives Our Beliefs & Actions: with Rev. Liên
Aug 19, 2025
The Struggle to Construct Racial Meaning with Michael Omi
Aug 05, 2025
I Vow to Save All Beings: Insisting on My Own Humanity with Rev. Dana Takagi
Jul 15, 2025
Our Heritage of Othering and Resistance with Historian Alice Yang
Jul 01, 2025
"10 Vows" with Rebecca Nie
Jun 17, 2025
Big Heart Resilience with Rebecca Nie
Jun 03, 2025
Heart Sutra Fragment 3: Introduction & Reading by Mushim Ikeda
May 20, 2025
Grow Up in the Dharma with Mushim Patricia Ikeda
May 06, 2025
June Tanoue Reads "Dwell Nowhere and Browse That"
Apr 15, 2025
Hula As Resistance w/ June Tanoue
Apr 01, 2025
Season 4 Premiere: Engaged Asian American/Asian Diaspora Buddhism for Our Times
Mar 18, 2025
Season 3 Compilation - A Beautiful Web of Asian Heritage Buddhists
Mar 04, 2025
Breath, Perfect Harmony, and a History More Beautiful and More Terrible w/ Rev. Dana Takagi
Feb 25, 2025
Widening Our View and The Challenge of Seeing Perfection w/ Rev. Dana Takagi
Feb 18, 2025
Meditation on Safety with Rev. Liên Shutt
Feb 11, 2025
Talk: Healing in Time & Space with Rev. Liên Shutt
Feb 04, 2025
Meditating on Trees with Ram Appalaraju
Jan 21, 2025
Inauguration Healing Space with Rev. Liên Shutt
Jan 20, 2025
Eco-Dharma Care with Ram Appalaraju
Jan 07, 2025
"Learning From the 60s" - Lisa Nakamura Reads Audre Lorde
Dec 17, 2024
Platforms for Zazen: The Cushion to the Computer w/ Lisa Nakamura
Dec 03, 2024
"The Practice of Staying" with Yenkuei Chuang
Nov 19, 2024
Insight Dialogue & Further Relationality with Yenkuei Chuang
Nov 05, 2024
Part 2 with Dr. Paula Arai "There is no Buddhism without Women" (& forthcoming book!)
Oct 15, 2024
"There is no Buddhism without Women" with Dr. Paula Arai (Part 1)
Oct 01, 2024
Connection is Vital: A Re-Visit with Bo Hee Moon (+Finished version of poem!)
Sep 17, 2024
"Meeting with my Asian Sangha Tonight" with Poet Bo Hee Moon
Sep 03, 2024
Meeting the Mentor with Ryan Lee Wong
Aug 20, 2024
Zen Practice As Community Building with Ryan Lee Wong
Aug 06, 2024
"Compassionate Touch Meditation" with Sharon Suh
Jul 16, 2024
"Silence is Not the Way" with Professor Sharon Suh
Jul 02, 2024
What Happens When We Don't Get What We Want? with JP deGuzman
Jun 18, 2024
O'kagesama-de (All thanks are due to you...) with Reverend Jean Paul Contreras deGuzman
Jun 04, 2024
Meditating on the Dharma Joy and Disquiet of Asian American and Identity
May 28, 2024
Bodhi Leaves: The Asian American Buddhist Monthly Co-Associate Editors Mihiri Tillakaratne and Noel Alumit
May 21, 2024
Rev. Liên's 2024 May We Gather Dharma Message: Stewarding the Net of Indra
May 14, 2024
Summary of May We Gather 2024: A National Buddhist Pilgrimage for Asian American Ancestors
May 07, 2024
Reflections with the 2024 May We Gather Co-Organizers: Funie Hsu, Chenxing Han and Duncan Ryūken Williams
May 01, 2024
Grief Practices with Rev. Dana Takagi
Apr 16, 2024
Season 3 Premiere! The Disquiet & Forwarding Asian American & Asian Diasporic Buddhist Experiences with Rev. Liên Shutt & Rev. Dana Takagi
Apr 02, 2024
Resting Where You Are Meditation with Rev. Liên Shutt
Mar 19, 2024
Expanding The Dharma: ODA Season 2 Wrap-Up with All 4 Hosts
Mar 05, 2024
The Middle Seat, guided meditation with Solwazi Johnson
Feb 20, 2024
"What's Values Got to Do With It?" asks Solwazi Johnson
Feb 02, 2024
An Opportunity for Practice Has Arrived
Jan 16, 2024
Dharma Stories for Visibility with Grace Song
Jan 02, 2024
Praises to the 21 Taras with Pema Khandro Rinpoche
Dec 20, 2023
Speaking for the Silenced with Pema Khandro Rinpoche
Dec 05, 2023
Guided Meditation with Rebecca Li
Nov 21, 2023
Illumination of Chan with Rebecca Li
Nov 07, 2023
Four Elements Meditation with René Rivera
Oct 17, 2023
Resourcing our Practice in Nature with René Rivera
Oct 03, 2023
Mother Earth Relaxation Meditation with Joe Reilly
Sep 19, 2023
Dharma Songs for Connection with Joe Reilly
Sep 05, 2023
Lovingkindness Meditation with Anushka Fernandopulle
Aug 15, 2023
The Nature of Practice & Teaching with Anushka Fernandopulle
Aug 01, 2023
The Voiceless Voice with Rev. Mark Unno
Jul 18, 2023
Going Deep with Rev. Mark Unno
Jul 04, 2023
Don't Hold On To Anger with Cristina Moon
Jun 20, 2023
I Belong Everywhere with Cristina Moon
Jun 06, 2023
Healing Meditation - Breathing, Relaxing & Wishing on a Star with Dr. Ava Avalos
May 16, 2023
When Action is Graced with Compassion: A Conversation with Dr. Ava Avalos
May 02, 2023
Rest Meditation with Dalila Bothwell
Apr 18, 2023
Frank Dharma with Dalila Bothwell
Apr 04, 2023
Calm, Ease with Sister Peace
Mar 21, 2023
Unmasked When We Are Together with Sister Peace
Mar 07, 2023
Body / Breath Meditation by Noliwe Alexander
Feb 21, 2023
Practicing to Touch Our Edges with Noliwe Alexander
Feb 07, 2023
Loving Our Skin: Farewell & Meditation with Kaira Jewel Lingo
Jan 17, 2023
Attending: A New Year's Meditation with Rev. Liên Shutt
Jan 03, 2023
Being Love with Lama Yeshe
Dec 20, 2022
Reflecting on 2022 and Transitioning to 2023
Dec 06, 2022
Shodaigyo Meditation for Healing with Bishop Myokei Caine-Barrett
Nov 15, 2022
You Can Polish the Mirror of Your Life with Myokei Caine-Barret, Shonin
Nov 01, 2022
"A Tale of Two Healers" with Thomas Davis IV
Oct 18, 2022
Fusion Dharma with Thomas Davis IV
Oct 04, 2022
The Caturārakkhā, or Four-Fold Protective Contemplations, with Bhante Sanathavihari
Sep 20, 2022
Meeting La Familia Where They Are At with Bhante Sanathavihari
Sep 06, 2022
Practicing with Outbreath: A Meditation with Rev. Dana Takagi
Aug 16, 2022
A Real Take on Race & Dharma in Convert Soto Zen: Conversation with Rev. Dana Takagi
Aug 02, 2022
Spacious Embodiment Meditation
Jul 19, 2022
Receiving & Understanding: An Interview with Margarita Loinaz
Jul 05, 2022
Guided Practice: Four Immeasurables: Loving-kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity
Jun 21, 2022
Dungse Jampal Norbu: Comfortable with the Fluidity of East-West, Tradition-Modernity
Jun 07, 2022
Guided Heart Meditation: Compassion Practice
May 17, 2022
You Can't Touch This: A Journey towards Self-Love with La Sarmiento
May 03, 2022
Relaxing Into the Present Meditation
Apr 19, 2022
Mind to Mind Connection with Venerable Thuần Tuệ
Apr 05, 2022
Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity with Lama Yeshe
Mar 22, 2022
Getting Grounded Meditation
Mar 15, 2022
Meet Host Lama Karma Yeshe Chödrön
Mar 01, 2022
Meet Host Kaira Jewel Lingo
Mar 01, 2022
Meet ODA Creator, Producer & Host Rev. Liên Shutt
Mar 01, 2022
ODA Trailer: Visions & Intentions for this Podcast
Mar 01, 2022
(Re)Centering Meditation
Feb 18, 2022