Black Lacquer Buckets

Zen is a steady, patient practice that does not seek to attain anything. It can sometimes feel like nothing is happening, but as the nun Chiyono realised when she was walking with a water bucket, sometimes the bottom can fall out to reveal a gleaming truth that was right before our eyes all along. In this talk we meet some of the great women of our tradition to discover what it’s like to fall right past ourselves into the Way.