Dr. Paula Arai talks with Dana about being brought up by her Japanese mother, and how she realized the way that she embodied Buddhism in her body and mind not through intellectual study or what Westerners view as formal practice, but through the simple actions and embodied guidance of her mother. PAULA ARAI (she/her) (Ph.D., Buddhist Studies, Harvard University) holds the Eshinni & Kakushinni Chair of Women and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. Steeped in ethnographic research, she takes an embodied approach to her work and finds poetic immersive storytelling a potent medium for conveying experiences of transformative healing. Her publications include: <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Women-Living-Zen-Japanese-Buddhist/dp/019512393X'>Women Living Zen</a> (Oxford University Press) <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Zen-Home-Healing-Japanese/dp/0824835352'>Bringing Zen Home</a> (University of Hawaii Press) <a href='https://www.shambhala.com/painting-enlightenment-9781611807561.html'>Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra </a>(Shambhala Publications) <a href='https://www.shambhala.com/zen-healing.html'>The Little Book of Zen Healing: Japanese Rituals for Beauty, Harmony, and Love</a> (Shambhala Publications) Explore <a href='https://www.zenhealing.org/'>her website</a> to read some of Paula's poetry, stay up to date on appearances, and learn more about her. Your host <a href='https://danatakagizenlife.squarespace.com/'>REVEREND DANA TAKAGI </a>(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.

Dr. Paula Arai talks with Dana about being brought up by her Japanese mother, and how she realized the way that she embodied Buddhism in her body and mind not through intellectual study or what Westerners view as formal practice, but through the simple actions and embodied guidance of her mother. PAULA ARAI (she/her) (Ph.D., Buddhist Studies, Harvard University) holds the Eshinni & Kakushinni Chair of Women and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. Steeped in ethnographic research, she takes an embodied approach to her work and finds poetic immersive storytelling a potent medium for conveying experiences of transformative healing. Her publications include: Women Living Zen (Oxford University Press) Bringing Zen Home (University of Hawaii Press) Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra (Shambhala Publications) The Little Book of Zen Healing: Japanese Rituals for Beauty, Harmony, and Love (Shambhala Publications) Explore her website to read some of Paula's poetry, stay up to date on appearances, and learn more about her. Your 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.

Dr. Paula Arai talks with Dana about being brought up by her Japanese mother, and how she realized the way that she embodied Buddhism in her body and mind not through intellectual study or what Westerners view as formal practice, but through the simple actions and embodied guidance of her mother. PAULA ARAI (she/her) (Ph.D., Buddhist Studies, Harvard University) holds the Eshinni &amp; Kakushinni Chair of Women and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. Steeped in ethnographic research, she takes an embodied approach to her work and finds poetic immersive storytelling a potent medium for conveying experiences of transformative healing. Her publications include: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Women-Living-Zen-Japanese-Buddhist/dp/019512393X" rel="noopener noreferrer">Women Living Zen</a> (Oxford University Press) <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Zen-Home-Healing-Japanese/dp/0824835352" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bringing Zen Home</a> (University of Hawaii Press) <a href="https://www.shambhala.com/painting-enlightenment-9781611807561.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra </a>(Shambhala Publications) <a href="https://www.shambhala.com/zen-healing.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Little Book of Zen Healing: Japanese Rituals for Beauty, Harmony, and Love</a> (Shambhala Publications) Explore <a href="https://www.zenhealing.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer">her website</a> to read some of Paula's poetry, stay up to date on appearances, and learn more about her. Your host <a href="https://danatakagizenlife.squarespace.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">REVEREND DANA TAKAGI&nbsp;</a>(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.&nbsp;

"There is no Buddhism without Women" with Dr. Paula Arai (Part 1)

Welcome to "Opening Dharma Access," a podcast where we hear stories from BIPOC teachers &amp; practitioners about their Dharma experiences and practice, and how those inform the ways they are sharing &amp; practicing the Dharma today. Season 3 description: Hosted by Rev. Liên &amp; 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.&nbsp; 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,&nbsp; and Asian American depression.&nbsp; &nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; What do we hope is the outcome of this podcast? &nbsp;Our first aim is to give voice to the range and depth of Buddhism in Asian and Asian American generations.&nbsp; 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!&nbsp; Contact us at:&nbsp; Info.Access2Zen@gmail.com Further Info at: AccessToZen.org

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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 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

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