Treasury of the True Dharma Eye

Preface and Acknowledgments

Notes to the Reader

Editor’s Introduction

Texts in Relation to Dogen’s Life and Translation Credits

WANDERING PERIOD, 1227–1233

1. On the Endeavor of the Way

KOSHO MONASTERY PERIOD, 1233–1243

2. Manifestation of Great Prajna

3. Actualizing the Fundamental Point

4. One Bright Pearl

5. Regulations for the Auxiliary Cloud Hall at the Kannondori Kosho Gokoku Monastery

6. The Mind Itself Is Buddha

8. Washing the Face

9. Receiving the Marrow by Bowing

10. Valley Sounds, Mountain Colors

11. Refrain from Unwholesome Action

12. The Time Being

13. Power of the Robe

14. Transmitting the Robe

15. Mountains and Waters Sutra

16. Buddha Ancestors

17. Document of Heritage

18. Dharma Blossoms Turn Dharma Blossoms

19. Ungraspable Mind

20. Ungraspable Mind, Later Version

22. Reading a Sutra

23. Buddha Nature

24. Awesome Presence of Active Buddhas

25. The Buddhas’ Teaching

27. Great Enlightenment

28. The Point of Zazen

29. Going Beyond Buddha

31a. Continuous Practice, Part One

31b. Continuous Practice, Part Two

32. Ocean Mudra Samadhi

33. Confirmation

34. Avalokiteshvara

36. Cypress Tree

37. Radiant Light

38. Body-and-Mind Study of the Way

39. Within a Dream Expressing the Dream

40. Expressions

41. Painting of a Rice Cake

42. Undivided Activity

44. Flowers in the Sky

45. Old Buddha Mind

46. The Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance

47. Twining Vines

MONASTERY CONSTRUCTION PERIOD, 1243–1245

48. Three Realms Are Inseparable from Mind

49. Speaking of Mind, Speaking of Essence

50. The Buddha Way

51. The Reality of All Things

52. Intimate Language

53. Buddha Sutras

54. Insentient Beings Speak Dharma

55. Dharma Nature

57. Face-to-Face Transmission

58. Rules for Zazen

59. Plum Blossoms

60. Ten Directions

61. Seeing the Buddha

62. All-Inclusive Study

64. Everyday Activity

65. Dragon Song

66. Spring and Autumn

67. The Meaning of Bodhidharma’s Coming from India

68. Udumbara Blossom

69. Arousing the Aspiration for the Unsurpassable

70. Arousing the Aspiration for Enlightenment

71. Tathagata’s Entire Body

72. King of Samadhis

73. Thirty-seven Wings of Enlightenment

74. Turning the Dharma Wheel

75. Self-Realization Samadhi

76. Great Practice

DAIBUTSU MONASTERY PERIOD, 1245–1246

78. Eating Bowl

79. Practice Period

80. Seeing Others’ Minds

81. King Wants the Saindhava

EIHEI MONASTERY PERIOD, 1246–1253

82. Instructions on Kitchen Work

83. Leaving the Household

84. Eight Awakenings of Great Beings

FASCICLES NOT DATED BY DOGEN

85. Karma in the Three Periods

86. Four Horses

87. Virtue of Home Leaving

88. Making Offerings to Buddhas

89. Taking Refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha

90. Identifying with Cause and Effect

91. Monk of the Fourth-Stage Meditation

92. Only a Buddha and a Buddha

93. Birth and Death

94. Heart of the Way

95. Receiving the Precepts

96. One Hundred Eight Gates of Realizing Dharma

Afterword · Michael Wenger

1. Recommending Zazen to All People · Dogen

2. Dogen’s Life and Teaching · Keizan Jokin

3. Dogen’s Editions of the Book

4. Lineage of Chinese Zen Ancestors

5. Maps Related to the Text

6. Eihei-ji Presumed Original Layout

7. Monks’ Hall

8. Time System

Selected Bibliography

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