Texts used in the teisho:Karen Armstrong, BuddhaStephen Batchelor, Living with the DevilNyanaponika 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 Auck

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

Book quoted from:  The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman.

Daily life practice and "What is this and how did it get here?"Sources: Meetings with Remarkable Women, Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987Subtle Sound ed. Roko Sherry Chayat Shambhala 1996

Painting legs on a snakeSources:Meetings with Remarkable Women, Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987Subtle Sound ed. Roko Sherry Chayat Shambhala 1996

Sesshin mindReadings from Stephen Batchelor's Introduction to his translation of Nagarjuna's Verses from the Centre.

Nagarjuna's Verses from the Centre Part Two. In this teisho we concentrate on the verses themselves.Sources: Verses from the Centre translated by Stephen BatchelorThe Unborn: Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei by Norman Wadde

 Mostly biographical materialSources: Meetings with Remarkable Women, Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987Subtle Sound ed. Roko Sherry Chayat Shambhala 1996

Readings from Stephen Batchelor's Introduction to his translation of Nagarjuna's Verses from the Centre. Nargajuna was an important Indian teacher and our 14th Zen Ancestor. Batchelor calls him "the poet of emptiness".