Linda Shinji Hoffman, Senior Lay Student - ZCNYC - 4/20/26 - In Cultivating the Empty Field, Hongzhi recounts how Huineng received the robe and bowl, symbols of awakening, and became the Sixth Ancestor. He invites us to “wear the robe” and “eat from the bowl” in everyday life—embodying practice in how we meet the world—so we can move freely, “traveling the bird’s way without hindrance.”