The Sayings of Layman P’ang

Foreword by Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi

Preface by Keido Fukushima Roshi

Introduction by Jeff Shore

Translator’s Note

Acknowledgments

The Recorded Sayings of Layman P’ang

DIALOGUES WITH SHIH-T’OU (SEKITO)

1. Suddenly Stopping the World

2. Subtleties of Daily Life

DIALOGUES WITH MA-TSU (BASO)

4. A Distinctly Authentic Person

5. The Bone and Muscle of Water

DIALOGUES WITH YUEH-SHAN (YAKUSAN)

7. Viewing the Snow

DIALOGUES WITH CH’I-FENG (ZAICHO)

8. There You Are

9. Front and Rear

10. The Distance to the Mountaintop

11. That Which Is Not Spoken

DIALOGUES WITH TAN-HSIA (TANKA)

12. Meeting Ling-chao

13. Deaf and Dumb

14. The Layman and Mr. P’ang

15. The Eye of the Heritage

16. The Head Scarf

17. Seven and One

18. Making Waves

DIALOGUES WITH PAI-LING (HYAKUREI)

19. Potent Instruction

20. Speaking and Not Speaking

21. What Did You Say?

DIALOGUES WITH P’U-CHI (FUZAI)

23. Haggling Over a Basket

24. Speaking Words

25. A Word from the Womb

26. Open or Closed?

DIALOGUE WITH CH’ANG-TZU (CHOSHI)

27. Not Violating the True Self

DIALOGUES WITH SUNG-SHAN (SHOZAN)

28. Why Don’t You Say Something?

29. The Ox Doesn’t Know

30. Sung-shan’s Staff

31. Yellow Leaves and Green Leaves

32. Sung-shan’s Ruler

DIALOGUES WITH PEN-HSI (HONGOKU)

33. Don’t Tell Someone What to Do

34. Is This So, or Not?

DIALOGUE WITH TA-MEI (DAIBAI)

35. The Plum’s Core

DIALOGUES WITH TA-YU (DAI’IKU)

36. Dining Etiquette

37. Fundamental Truth

DIALOGUES WITH TSE-CH’UAN (SOKUSEN)

38. Old and Young

39. The Intangible Dharma Body

40. Host and Guest

DIALOGUE WITH LO-P’U (RAKUHO)

41. Hot and Cold

DIALOGUES WITH SHIH-LIN (SEKIRIN)

42. Tan-hsia’s Activities

43. Say It Succinctly

44. It’s Indescribable

DIALOGUE WITH YANG-SHAN (KYOZAN)

45. Respected Mountain

DIALOGUE WITH KU-YIN (KOKUIN)

46. Wild Fox Zen

DIALOGUE WITH A MONK WHILE READING THE SUTRAS

47. Reading the Sutras

DIALOGUE WITH A MONK DOING RITUAL BEGGING

48. Accepting Charity

DIALOGUE WITH AN OXHERD

49. Where the Path Leads

DIALOGUE WITH A MEDITATION TEACHER

50. The Message of the Diamond Sutra

THREE VIEWS OF HARD AND EASY

51. Three Views of Hard and Easy

THREE-STANZA POEM

52. Three-Stanza Poem

DIALOGUES WITH LING-CHAO (REISHO)

53. Each Blade of Grass Is Clear-Cut

54. Helping Someone Up

THE LAYMAN’S DEATH

55. The Layman’s Death

DIALOGUES FROM OTHER SOURCES

56. Tan-hsia’s Rosary

57. Pen-hsi and the Skull

58. Mrs. P’ang Goes Back

Appendix: Brief Ancestor Chart