Talks

2022

Term 2

A walk in country that is always happening and has no end
Roshi Susan Murphy 28 August 2022
Talk 6 from term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

Though you search to the ends of time, you’ll never single it out
Roshi Susan Murphy 14 August 2022
Talk 5 from term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

The well that has never been dug
Roshi Susan Murphy 24 July 2022
Talk 4 from term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

In a well that has never been dug, water ripples, from a stream that does not flow.
Someone, with no shadow or form, is drawing the water.

Uncle Max
Roshi Susan Murphy 10 July 2022
Talk 3 from Term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

Don’t stand in someone else’s place
Kynan Sutherland Sensei 26 June 2022
Talk 2 from Term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

How can anyone lose by crying out
Kynan Sutherland Sensei 12 June 2022
Talk 1 from Term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

Term 1

When by the side of the ancient ferry
The breeze and the moonlight are cool and pure,
The dark vessel turns into the glowing world.

In the Intense Fire
Roshi Susan Murphy May 8 2022
Talk 5 from Term 1 of Taking Part in the Gathering

A Poem that is a Koan
Roshi Susan Murphy 24 April 2022
Talk 4 from Term 1 of Taking Part in the Gathering

The Ancient Ferry
Roshi Susan Murphy | 10 April 2022
Talk 3 from Term 1 of Taking Part in the Gathering

The Natural Poetry of the Way
Roshi Susan Murphy
Talk 2 from Term 1 of Taking Part in the Gathering

The Dark Vessel Turns Into The Glowing World
Roshi Susan Murphy and Sensei Kynan Sutherland | 13 March 2022
Talk 1 from Term 1 of Taking Part in the Gathering

2021

Go Straight Ahead
Roshi Susan Murphy & Sensei Kynan Sutherland | 28 November 2021 | Talk 6 from Term 3 of Taking Part in the Gathering

It’s My Fault
Sensei Kynan Sutherland | 31 October 2021 | Talk 4 from Term 3 of Taking Part in the Gathering

Ripeness is all
Roshi Susan Murphy | 17 October 2021 | Talk 3 from Term 3 of Taking Part in the Gathering

It speaks in silence
Roshi Susan Murphy | 26 September 2021 | Talk 2 from Term 3 of Taking Part in the Gathering

I am sick because the whole world is sick
Sensei Kynan Sutherland | 12 September 2021 | Talk 1 from Term 3 of Taking Part in the Gathering

Ah, is it so?
Roshi Susan Murphy | 22 August 2021 | Talk 6 from Term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

Going to the thousand, the ten thousand peaks
Roshi Susan Murphy | 8 August 2021 | Talk 5 from Term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

‘A butterfly flies up’: What does ‘power for the way’ look like in action?
Roshi Susan Murphy | 25 July 2021 | Talk 4 from Term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

On being the first to enter Hell
Roshi Susan Murphy | 11 July 2021 | Talk 3 from Term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

The Way – though stepped upon it does not anger
Roshi Susan Murphy | 27 June 2021 | Talk 2 from Term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

It’s Mutual
Roshi Susan Murphy with comments by Sensei Kynan Sutherland | 13 June 2021 | Talk 1 from Term 2 of Taking Part in the Gathering

Become like this.
Roshi Susan Murphy | 09 April 2021 | Talk 5 from Term 1 of Taking Part in the Gathering.

Mutually save, mutually save
Roshi Susan Murphy | 25 April 2021 | Talk 4 from Term 1 of Taking Part in the Gathering.

Baizhang’s Fox
Roshi Susan Murphy | 19 April 2021 | Teisho 3 from Autumn Sesshin 2021

Nanchuan’s Cat: The Crisis of Human Separation
Sensei Kynan Sutherland | 18 April 2021 | Teisho 2 from Autumn Sesshin 2021

Fool of grace | Mu
Roshi Susan Murphy | 17 April 2021 | Teisho 1 from Autumn Sesshin 2021.

Fearless compassion at the quelling point
Roshi Susan Murphy | 11 April 2021 | Talk 3 of Term 1 – Taking Part in the Gathering

Medicine & Sickness
Roshi Susan Murphy | 28 March 2021 | Talk 2 of Term 1 – Taking Part in the Gathering

In a dark time, the eye begins to see
Roshi Susan Murphy | 14 March 2021 | Talk 1 of Term 1 – Taking Part in the Gathering

2020