Mushim Patricia Ikeda
Mushim Patricia Ikeda is a Buddhist and mindfulness teacher, community activist, and author based in Oakland, California.
INTERVIEW TOPIC:
GIVING THAT WHICH WE WISH TO RECEIVE
In this interview with author and buddhist teacher Mushim Patricia Ikeda we learn that responding skillfully to loneliness starts with validating the very real social injustices and structural inequities that produce isolation and disconnection. We didn’t create these systems, and they’re not our fault. She shares ways to shift out of an afflictive state of loneliness and into a direct experience of the interconnection of life.
LINKS:
Website: mushimikeda.com
BIO:
Mushim Patricia Ikeda has become widely known for her down-to-earth, humorous, and penetrating approach to Dharma and social transformation. Mushim is currently a socially-engaged Buddhist teacher, mindfulness meditation teacher, social justice activist, author, and diversity and inclusion facilitator based in Oakland, California. She teaches primarily at the East Bay Meditation Center in downtown Oakland, where she also served on the board of directors, known as the Leadership Sangha, for seven years. She now works part-time on EBMC’s staff as the community coordinator.
Mushim has taught residential meditation retreats for people of color, social justice activists, and women nationally, and her work is based in values of cultural humility, acknowledging the wisdom that is ever-present in individuals and collectives, and the need for expression, empowerment, and co-creative self-determination in marginalized communities. Mushim has been featured in the award-winning documentary film Between the Lines: Asian American Women’s Poetryand as one of three subjects in the documentary Acting on Faith: Women’s New Religious Activism in America, distributed by the Pluralism Project at Harvard University.
As a writer, Mushim is the recipient of the first Alice Hayes Fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation to support a one-month residency for a writer working on social justice and environmental issues. She has been named an expert panelist of the Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarks, an Open Source online resource available through the Diversity Collegium. Mushim is also the recipient of the 2014 Gil A. Lopez Peacemaker Award from the Association for Dispute Resolution of Northern California, recognizing her innovative one-year program, Practice in Transformative Action (PiTA), mindfulness training for social justice activists, at East Bay Meditation Center. In September 2015 she received an honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology (sacrae theologiae) degree from the Starr King School for the Ministry.
This video is one of 16 interviews comprising the Transforming Loneliness summit, which was curated and hosted by Laura Parker, MFT in early 2019. To view the other interviews in the series, please register here if you haven’t already.
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