2020-11-24 Chiyono's "No Water, No Moon"
AZC Weekly talks · Auckland Zen Centre
November 27, 202050m 41s
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Show Notes
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