Description: A look at two of the essential qualities we need to practise Zen and ways we can cultivate them.

Sources: Throw Yourself into the House of Buddha by Tangen Harada Roshi, Shambhala 2023, Silent Illumination by Guo Gu, Shambhala 2021, NOON e-Newsletter January 2025 Discipline of the Good Mind article by Freida J. Jacques.

Readings from: Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha : the Life & Zen Teachings of Tangen Harada Roshi / translated by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa ; edited by Kogen Czarnik.

Readings from: Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha : the Life & Zen Teachings of Tangen Harada Roshi / translated by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa ; edited by Kogen Czarnik.

Readings from: Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha : the Life & Zen Teachings of Tangen Harada Roshi / translated by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa ; edited by Kogen Czarnik.

Readings from: Ichi Tantei = One Doing / Tangen Roshi of Bukkokuji ; teisho translations by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa ; edited by Ron Klein.

Readings from: Ichi Tantei = One Doing / Tangen Roshi of Bukkokuji ; teisho translations by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa ; edited by Ron Klein.

Readings from: Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha : the Life & Zen Teachings of Tangen Harada Roshi / translated by Belenda Attaway Yamakawa ; edited by Kogen Czarnik.

Texts used in the teisho:

Karen Armstrong, Buddha

Stephen Batchelor, Living with the Devil

Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuth Hecker, Great Disciples of the Buddha

Educating ourselves about our colonial history can be a way of honouring Te Tiriti. We can learn much from Parihaka about waging peace and the power of non-violence, as Gandhi did.

Sources: Shifting Grounds, Deep Histories of Tamaki Makaurau Auckland by Lucy Mackintosh Bridget Williams Books

Ask that Mountain by Dick Scott Raupo 1975

Book quoted from:  The Force of Character by James Hillman.