Mushim Ikeda is a social activist and teacher at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California. She also works as a diversity and inclusion consultant.
Mushim Ikeda is a social activist and teacher at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, California. She also works as a diversity and inclusion consultant.
If we take refuge in the Buddha, the dharma, and the sangha, we are never alone. Three Buddhist teachers explain.
As long as we don’t burn out and give up, we really can change the world. Mushim Patricia Ikeda on self-care for activists.
Mushim Patricia Ikeda teaches us how to generate loving-kindness and good will as an antidote to hatred and fear.
Mushim Patricia Ikeda’s parents gave her baby sister to an aunt living an ocean away. This act of generosity changed the way she thinks about giving.
Mushim Patricia Ikeda says it's not enough to help others. You have to take care of yourself too.
Buddhist teacher Mushim Patricia Ikeda suggest alternatives when meditation becomes too painful.
The practice of community, says Mushim Patricia Ikeda, is more than including beyond all people, even all beings. It mean including all thoughts, all emotions, all realities—the bad as well as the good.
Mushim Patricia Ikeda talks about dealing with physical pain in meditation.
Mushim Patricia Ikeda shares a small piece of Buddhist history that she’s never forgotten, and that she hopes we'll always remember, too.
Mushim Patricia Ikeda gives instruction in Metta meditation, which can help us foster feelings of loving-kindness, or good will.
Mushim Patricia Ikeda traces her path as a parent through some of the humorous, poignant and penetrating conversations she's had with her young son, Joshua.