Who or what is in the way of our waking up? How do we get out of the way?

Main Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary

How subjective emotional consciousness distorts our experience.

Main Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary

Some historical background on Master Dahui and his championing of koan practice.

Source(s): Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui Translated by Christopher Cleary, and Circle of the Way by Barbara O'Brien

Chiyono experiences enlightenment when the bottom falls out of her water bucket. How do we break out of fixed ways of seeing ourselves and framing the world? Absorption in a koan is a tried and tested way.

Main text: The Hidden Lamp, Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon

A meeting between a Buddhist monk and a people in Colombia who understand that they are part of the living world, not separate from it.

Main Text: Running Toward Mystery; The Adventure of an Unconventional Life by Ven Tenzin Priyadarshi and Zara Houshmand

"With total trust, roam and play in samadhi".

Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991

"You must be broadminded, whole, without relying on others."

Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991

The bright, boundless field -- what is it? "Degrading situations" and how to avoid pursuing them.

Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991

The life of Master Hongzhi

Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991

Words from two wise women -- Anne Salmond and Susan Murphy -- for Jacinda Ardern (and all of us) as many challenges loom.

Texts: Newsroom article, 18 October, 2020 Navigating by the stars

www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/anne-salmond-navigating-by-the-stars?fbclid=IwAR1oAA9c8VPWA-jF6jj5cWOwrZsA4j_x3bFtx3AXzudpFlO8WaBqXsPge4Q

Minding the Earth, Mending the World by Susan Murphy