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In the flow of rupture | June – Council on the Uncertain Human Future
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In the flow of rupture | June

July 1, 2025

On Monday June 30, CUHF member Roshi Susan Murphy offered her deep earth connection, Buddhist insights, and experiences of aboriginal wisdom, in a brief reflection from her home in Australia.

Her remarks opened the third session of the 2025 Council series, In the flow of rupture.

Initially launched over two sessions in February/March 2025 as On the rim of rupture, In the flow of rupture offers ongoing opportunities for reflection among CUHF community members in the wake of upheaval created by the current U.S. administration. In sessions meeting every six weeks (with optional pop-up sessions in-between), we ask:

What is happening, and how do we stay present, compassionate, grounded and in community amidst the convulsions? Can we together expand our insight and perspective, while being realistic, agile, skillful and of service?

This recording is among the resources CUHF has shared to support the In the flow of rupture Councils in 2025. See the homepage of our site for more.

About the speaker

Roshi Susan Murphy

Roshi Susan, founding teacher of Zen Open Circle, is an Australian Zen teacher whose deep feeling of kinship with the natural world began during her barefoot early childhood years living near the Great Barrier Reef and the Gondwanaland rainforest. Susan is a successful filmmaker, radio producer, and writer, with a Masters degree from Northwestern University and a PhD from Sydney University. In 2001 she received dharma transmission from both Ross Bolleter in the Diamond Sangha (Robert Aitken) lineage, and from John Tarrant in the Pacific Zen lineage.

She leads regular retreats around Australia and teaches an Australia-wide sangha that extends internationally online. She is the author of Upside-Down Zen; Minding the Earth, Mending the World; Red Thread Zen; and her most recent book, A Fire Runs Through All Things: Zen koans for Facing the Climate Crisis, was published by Shambhala in November 2023. You can learn more in her interview with Raghu Markus here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge-trvIWZmo