Precepts for Skillful Engagement: Cultivating loving interactions in turbulent times
Series 1 (QBIPOC Teachers)
6 Thursdays: February 12th - March 19th
9-10am PT / 12-1pm ET
Online
Welcome to all!
Series 2 (GenX Teachers)
5 Thursdays: April 2nd - April 30th
9-10am PT / 12-1pm ET
Online
Welcome to all!
In these turbulent times, we are freely offering 2 drop-in series with 2 groups of teachers to engage with these fundamental 5 Precepts:
Not Killing / Promote Non-Harming
Not Stealing / Promote Mutuality
Not Misusing Sexuality / Promote Intimacy
Not Lying / Promote Honoring Truths
Not Intoxicating / Promote Clear Heart-Mind
(Week 6 SERIES 1 ONLY: Onward Commitment & Support to Enacting Our Values)
In Buddhist practice, the Precepts are offered as a means to protect oneself and others from careless actions of body, speech and mind. When we live, committed to being guided by these values in tangible ways, the possibility for loving interactions rises.
Each week, we’ll recite these 5 Precepts in their fundamental form (the “not” format”), then listen to a short talk from one of our teachers, engage in a practice to support a deeper exploration and enactment of that week’s precept, and then end with another recitation of a more contextual format (similar to the second version above).
Our aim is to create a community/sangha in which we can receive guidance from Buddhist teachings, establish a shared space for exploring the nuances of living with these values in our complex times, and then have a “take-away” practice and set of precepts to nourish us for the coming week.
You are invited to join for the full series or as a drop-in. Please be prepared for a variety of practices. Also note, BIPOCs voices and experiences are forwarded. We ask all to honor these EBMC/Visions Inc. Agreement for Multicultural Interactions
Drop-ins and full series participation welcome to all on a Noble Giving / Dana basis
NOTE: As we want this offering to be accessible to as many as possible, all sessions will be videotaped and posted on YouTube with limited or no editing. By joining, you are consenting to being recorded.
ALL TALKS WILL BE POSTED UNDER TEACHER BIOS BELOW. Or go to the AccessToZen YouTube Page @lienshutt for all talks and more.
Join with this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/272155964
Series 2 (GenX Teachers) - Apr. 2nd - Apr. 30
SATYA ROBYN is a Buddhist minister and the co-founder of the Bright Earth community in the UK. She has trained with various Buddhist teachers including Rev. Koyo Kubose of Bright Dawn, and is inspired by Pure Land teachings as well as teachings from other spiritual traditions. She writes a newsletter at 'Love, Satya' and the website for the Bright Earth temple is here.
Join Satya Robyn on April 2nd, 9am PT, for teachings on the 1st Precept: Not Killing/Non-Harming
NINA LA ROSA (she/they) teaches that waking up and showing up can bloom from the same roots. As the guiding teacher of Stillpoint Sangha, she weaves together secular Buddhadharma, psychology, neuroscience, and social justice to help practitioners find inner and collective freedom. Trained by Shinzen Young and Arnie Kozak, PhD, Nina has spent nearly two decades teaching an integrative approach to mindful awareness that is practically grounded and ethically alive. She is also a psychotherapist in private practice and lives with her family outside Barcelona, working with practitioners in the US and Europe.
Dana/Noble Giving info: https://ninalarosa.com/donate
Join Nina on April 9th, 9am PT, for teachings on the 2nd Precept: Not Stealing/Mutuality.
REVEREND LIÊN SHUTT (she/they) is a priest lineage holder in the Shunryu Suzuki tradition. Born to a Buddhist family in Vietnam, she received her meditation training in the Insight and Soto Zen traditions in the United States, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. They are the guiding teacher of Access to Zen, an inclusive, anti-oppression sangha and nonprofit in the San Francisco Bay Area. She lives in Oakland, on Huichin land, with her partner, exploring waterways and forests as often as they can.
Dana/Noble Giving info: Zelle suddenleap.a2z@gmail.com or Venmo @SuddenLeap-A2Z #2585
Join Rev. Liên on April 16th, 9am PT, for teachings on the 3rd Precept: Not Misusing Sexuality/Intimacy.
YENKUEI CHUANG (she/her) is a Taiwanese American meditation teacher ordained in Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing and trained in Insight Dialogue, Early Buddhism, and Insight meditation. Also a psychotherapist and somatic practitioner, she explores joyful awakening in the context of social conditioning, differences and belonging in the everyday life.
Dana/Noble Giving info: paypal.me/yenkuei or venmo yenkuei-chuang
Join Yenkuei on April 23rd, 9am PT, for teachings on the 4th Precept: Not Lying/Honoring Truths.
KIM ALLEN has been practicing Insight meditation since 2003, and has trained intensively in the U.S. and Asia with cumulative years of silent retreat. She has trained primarily with Gil Fronsdal, as well as Theravādan monastics and a few Mahāyāna teachers. She offers retreats, sutta study, and experiential Dharma engagement. A teacher and author, Kim aims to bring classical Dharma to a modern context and to encourage lay practitioners in fully living a life of Dharma. She serves as guiding teacher of Uncontrived: http://www.uncontrived.org.
Dana/Noble Giving info: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/teacher-dana
Join Kim on April 30th, 9am PT, for teachings on the 5th Precept: Not Intoxicating/Clear Heart-Mind
Series 1 (QBIPOC Teachers) - Feb. 12 - Mar. 19
REVEREND LIÊN SHUTT (she/they) is a priest lineage holder in the Shunryu Suzuki tradition. Born to a Buddhist family in Vietnam, she received her meditation training in the Insight and Soto Zen traditions in the United States, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. They are the guiding teacher of Access to Zen, an inclusive, anti-oppression sangha and nonprofit in the San Francisco Bay Area. She lives in Oakland, on Huichin land, with her partner, exploring waterways and forests as often as they can.
Click here for Rev. Liên’s series 1 talk on Precept 1: Not Killing/Non-Harming. Also join us on March 19th for a wrap-up on the 5 Precepts, how they are all interconnected in our daily lives.
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.
Click here for Rev. Dana’s series 1 talk on Precept 2: Not Stealing/Mutuality
REVEREND WILLIE SHOMON MUKEI (he/him) is a Zen student at The Village Zendo and novice Zen Priest where he leads the People of Color Sitting Group. He is also a psychoanalyst with a private practice and a member of both the Buddhist Council of New York and a Episcopal Priest. Willie has extensive history working the anti-racism and social justice realm.
Click here for Rev. Willie’s series 1 talk on Precept 3: Not Misusing Sexuality/Intimacy
BRUNI DÁVILA (she/they) has practiced Insight and Zen meditation since 1995. They graduated from the IMS/IRC Teacher Training Program, and has been guided and supported by various wonderful teachers and sanghas, and her ancestors of Puerto Rican heritage. bruni’s practice is grounded in the teachings of Mahasi Sayadaw and Sayadaw U Tejaniya. She teaches at IMC, in Redwood City and in the wider Bay area, in English and Spanish.
RAHIL ROJIANI, MD (they/them) is a queer, genderfluid, South Asian Ismaili Muslim, and an abolitionist trauma-focused psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School. Rahil’s contemplative practices are informed by their Muslim faith, secular mindfulness traditions, and multiple Buddhist lineages. Rahil has conducted several years of research on the neuroscience of meditation, and they have been facilitating and teaching meditation since 2014— particularly for healthcare professionals, BIPOC, and community organizers.
Click here Rahil’s Dharma talk, meditation & recitation from Manzanita Village Retreat Center's 5 Practices (& links to all the sites mentioned!)
