David Woo on Burning Pride, Addic...

David Woo on Burning Pride, Addiction Recovery and Buddhism

Cha-Tea Circle: A Podcast Series on Asian American Spiritual... by Chanhee Heo, Elaine Lai, Chenxing Han, and Xianfeng Shi

Episode notes

Elaine interviews L.A. native Rev. David Woo who is the founder of Burning Pride, a Buddhist recovery fellowship for Asian Americans. David shares about his own journey to addiction recovery and how Buddhism and mindfulness helped him in this process. Other topics covered include the need for much more nuanced representations of Asian Americans in film, David’s moving documentary film Get Jumped In, and a lifelong search for home.

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Asian Americanspiritualityartseducationaddiction recoverybuddhism