Frontispiece quote: “Shunryu Suzuki Roshi once said to Sojun Mel Weitsman, ‘You have a saying . . .’” From personal interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman, August 2000.
“The self is, of course, a story . . .” Halifax, Joan. Personal interview, August 2000.
Opener: “There was a fisherman . . .” From Sokei-an, Zen Pivots: Lectures on Buddhism and Zen. Mary Farkas, ed., and Robert Lopez. New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1998.
Bodhidharma story and quotes: passed down through oral tradition. This is the author's version, derived from a number of different translations.
“A special transmission . . .” Passed down through oral tradition. This is the author's version, derived from a number of different translations.
“It seems to me . . .” Loori, John Daido. Personal interview, spring 2000.
“To be awake is to be alive . . .” Henry David Thoreau. Walden. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906.
“The land of the white barbarians is beneath the dignity of a Zen master . . .” Tworkov, Helen. Zen in America. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989, p. 3.
“An idealistic universal religion . . .” Shaku, Soyen. (Provided by Joe McNeely.)
“depend on miracles or faith . . .” Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake. Boulder: Shambhala, 1981, p. 128.
“I have studied Buddhism for more than forty years . . .” Nordstrom, Louis, ed. Namu Dai Bosa: A Transmission of Zen Buddhism to America. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1976, p. 128.
“Just face this great . . .” Shaku, Soyen. Reported by Nyogen Senzaki in “Commemoration of Soyen Shaku, 1954,” quoted in How the Swans Came to the Lake, p. 172.
“I have never made any demarcation of my learning . . .” Senzaki, Nyogen. Zen Notes, Vol. IV, No. 4 (April 1957), p. 1. First Zen Institute of America, Inc.
“(Senzaki) studied English and Western philosophy . . .” Aitken, Robert, in introduction to Senzaki, Nyogen and McCandless, Ruth Strout. Buddhism and Zen. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987, p. x.
“Americans in general are lovers . . .” Senzaki, Nyogen. From Namu Dai Bosa, pp. 89–91.
Zen Story: “The Most Beautiful Vow.” From Wind Bell, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1–2 (Fall 1969), p. 36.
Zen Story: “The True Meaning of Cleanliness.” From Zen Notes, Vol. XXI, No. 5 (May 1974), p. 1. First Zen Institute of America, Inc.
“Dharma Words from Nyogen Senzaki.” Senzaki, Nyogen. From Namu Dai Bosa.
“Very much the bohemian, with long swirling hair . . .” Watts, Alan. In My Own Way: Autobiography 1915–1965. New York: Pantheon Books, 1972, p. 144.
“I had a house and one chair . . .” Sasaki, Sokei-an. Reported by Mary Farkas in “Footsteps in the Invisible World,” Wind Bell, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1–2 (Fall 1969), p. 15.
Zen Story: “Carve Me a Buddha.” From First Zen Institute archives. First Zen Institute of America, Inc.
Zen Story: “Long Time Dead.” From First Zen Institute archives. First Zen Institute of America, Inc.
“Utterly transported out of . . .” Sasaki, Ruth Fuller. Reported by Mary Farkas in “Footsteps in the Invisible World,” Wind Bell, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1–2 (Fall 1969), p. 18.
“In Buddhism, purposelessness is fundamental . . .” Sasaki, Sokeian. Reported by Alan Watts in In My Own Way, p. 144.
“I have always taken nature's orders . . .” Sasaki, Sokei-an. How the Swans Came to the Lake, p. 192.
“The first master to carry Zen to America . . .” Reported by Mary Farkas in introduction to The Zen Eye: A collection of Zen Talks by Sokei-an. Mary Farkas, ed. New York: Weatherhill, 1994, p. ix.
Zen story: “I Am from Missouri.” From First Zen Institute archives. © First Zen Institute of America, Inc.
“When you go to Riverside Drive . . .” Sasaki, Sokei-an. From Zen Notes, Vol. XLV, No. 3, Summer 1998.
“One day, when I was traveling through Idaho . . .” Sasaki, Sokeian. From Zen Notes, First Zen Institute of America, Inc. Vol. XXVIII, No. 11, 1981.
“The Mountain of Compassion” and “eastbound tendency of the teachings,” Tworkov, Helen. Zen in America. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989, p. 11.
“Even as a kid seeing him . . .” Saijo, Albert. From Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation. Carole Tonkinson, ed. New York: Riverhead Books, 1995, pp. 244–245.
“Parting.” Poem by Senzaki, Nyogen. From Like a Dream, Like a Fantasy: The Zen Writings and Translations of Nyogen Senzaki. Edited and with an introduction by Eido Shimano Roshi. Japan Publications, Inc, 1978, p. 45. Used by permission.
“Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own head . . .” Senzaki, Nyogen. Reported by Eido Tai Shimano in Wind Bell, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1–2 (Fall 1969), p. 37.
“Do not erect a tombstone . . .” Senzaki, Nyogen. From Namu Dai Bosa.
“The Fifth Patriarch told a new monk . . .” poem by Shaku, Soyen. From Namu Dai Bosa.
“Bringing Zen to America,” Sokei-an. Reported by Mary Farkas in introduction to The Zen Eye, p. ix.
“What makes a man in his middle years,” “painful tensions,” and “need to understand the appalling sufferings,” Kapleau, Philip. Zen Dawn in the West. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980, p. 259.
“That damn ‘nothing’ feeling . . .” Kapleau, Philip. The Three Pillars of Zen. Boston: Beacon Press, 1967, p. 208.
“Because we Japanese have inflicted,” and “the law of karmic retribution . . .” Kapleau, Philip. Zen Dawn in the West, p. 263.
“A mood of black depression” and “in bondage to the joyless pursuit,” Kapleau, Philip. Zen Dawn in the West, p. 262.
“My vacuous life no longer had meaning . . .” Kapleau, Philip. Zen Dawn in the West, p. 264.
“If you really want to learn Buddhism” and “transfusion of courage,” Kapleau, Philip. The Three Pillars of Zen, p. 209.
“Free as a fish swimming in an ocean . . .” Kapleau, Philip. The Three Pillars of Zen, p. 229.
“After several months of agonizing . . .” Kapleau, Philip. Zen Dawn in the West, p. 266.
Zen Story: “First Lesson.” From personal interview with Philip Kapleau, October, 2000, with additional details from The Three Pillars of Zen, pp. 210–211.
Zen Story: “You Spit, I Bow.” From personal interview with Philip Kapleau, October 2000, with additional details from The Three Pillars of Zen, pp. 211–212.
“Shivered for three days afterward . . .” Shimano, Eido T. Endless Vow: The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa. Boston and London: Shambhala, 1996, p. 10.
Zen Story: “It's Not What You Say . . .” From personal interview with Philip Kapleau, October 2000.
Zen Story: “The Point of Zen.” From Namu Dai Bosa, pp. 127–128.
“Now you are a pillar of this temple . . .” Farkas, Mary. “My Early Life.” Mary Farkas: Appreciations and Conversations. Commemorative publication by First Zen Institute of America, 1992, p. 53.
“Upholstered in bright green velour . . .” Sasaki, Ruth Fuller. Reported by David Guy in “Dragon Wisdom: The Life of Ruth Fuller Sasaki.” Tricycle. Winter 1994, p. 17.
“If I put them down on cushions and made them do zazen . . .” Sasaki, Sokei-an, from Wind Bell, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1–2 (Fall 1969), p. 18.
“. . . making traditional Zen study available . . .” Sasaki, Ruth Fuller. Zen Notes. Vol. V, No. 7 (1958).
“A Letter from Japan.” Sasaki, Ruth Fuller. Zen Notes. Vol. V, No. 7 (1958).
“The Forest of Zen” and all Walter Nowick quotes from personal interview, October 2000. (The poem is his remembered version of an ancient traditional verse.)
Zen Story: “Ready or Not . . .” From personal interview with Walter Nowick, October 2000.
“especially gentle and quiet man . . .” Snyder, Gary. The Real Work. New Directions, 1980, pp. 97–98.
Zen Story: “What Is Serious?” Snyder, Gary. Jimmy and Lucy's House of ‘K’, No. 9 (January 1989), p. 23.
“Zen of eccentrics, loners . . .” Chandler, Ian. “Without Titles or Ranks.” Mary Farkas: Appreciations and Conversations, p. 18.
“Many visitors would arrive expecting to be greeted . . .” Robison, Fay E. “Early Days.” Mary Farkas: Appreciations and Conversations, p. 27.
“Don't you think we've made . . .” Farkas, Mary. Zen Notes, Vol. X, No. 10 (October 1963). First Zen Institute of America, Inc.
Zen Story: “What Is ‘Spiritual’?” From First Zen Institute archives. © First Zen Institute of America, Inc.
Zen Story: “Worthwhile to Help, Zen Notes.” From Vol. XXVIII, No. 11 (1981). ©1981 First Zen Institute of America, Inc.
“There is an initial experience . . .” Aitken, Robert. The Practice of Perfection. Counterpoint Press, 1994, pp. 20–21.
“The world seemed transparent . . .” Aitken, Robert. “Willy-Nilly Zen.” From Taking the Path of Zen. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982, p. 115.
“We climbed to the highest peak . .” Aitken, Robert. Zen in America, p. 28.
“All my work comes from the profound vow . . .” Aitken, Robert. The Practice of Perfection, p. 21.
“If we had not met I might well have spent my life . . .” Aitken, Robert. Original Dwelling Place. Counterpoint Press, 1996.
“It was as though all the beliefs I had . . .” Aitken, Robert. Zen in America, p. 35.
“. . . a sign of throwing everything away . . .” Aitken, Robert. Taking the Path of Zen, p. 30.
“It was the only thing I could do . . .” Aitken, Robert. Zen in America, p. 37.
“. . . a little bit of light. I knew he was referring to . . .” Aitken, Robert. “Willy-Nilly Zen.” From Taking the Path of Zen. pp. 123–124.
Zen Story: “Just Like Riding a Bicycle.” Aitken, Robert. Reported by Bonnie Myotai Treace in “The Broken Tray.” Mountain Record Vol. XVI, No. 4 (Summer 1998), p. 15.
Zen Story: “A True Person of Zen.” Tarrant, John. Reported in “The Fortunate and Ongoing Disaster of Lay Life.” Mountain Record, Vol. XII, No. 2 (Winter 1993), p. 21.
“Skinny hawklike man” and “like teacups,” How the Swans Came to the Lake, pp. 231–232
“. . . could often be seen trotting about Tokyo . . .” Kapleau, Philip. The Three Pillars of Zen, p. 26.
“. . . a distillation of pure energy.” Aitken, Robert. “Willy-Nilly Zen.” Taking the Path of Zen, p. 121.
“He devoted himself fully to us . . .” Aitken, Robert. Quoted in translator's introduction to Yasutani, Hakuun. Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Zen Master Dogen's Genjokoan. Boston and London: Shambhala, 1996, p. xxvi.
“When you die, does everything around you die too?” Yasutani, Hakuun. From The Three Pillars of Zen, p. 114.
“I know what I'm supposed to do . . .” Yasutani, Hakuun. From The Three Pillars of Zen, p. 116.
“Dogen experienced full enlightenment . . .” Yasutani, Hakuun. Wind Bell, Vol. VII, Nos. 3-4 (Fall 1968), pp. 11–12.
“The fundamental delusion of humanity . . .” Yasutani, Hakuun. From Schiller, David. The Little Zen Companion. Workman Publishing Company, 1994.
Zen Story: “More Things in Heaven and Earth . . .” Reported in How the Swans Came to the Lake, p. 236.
“An electric news screen . . .” Yasutani, Hakuun. Flowers Fall, p. 57.
“. . . not to lighten the load of a disciple . . .” Tricycle, Spring 1997, p. 78.
Zen story: “The Next Best Thing.” Kennett, Jiyu. Reported in The Wild White Goose. Shasta Abbey, 1978, p. 51.
Closing anecdote: “Suppleness is very important . . .” Reported in Zen Notes, Vol. I, No. 9 (Sept. 1954).
Chapter Opener: “1958 will be great year, year of Buddhism . . .” Kerouac, Jack. From 1957 letter to Philip Whalen, in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957–1969. Ann Charters, ed. New York: Viking 1999. Used by permission.
“I clearly remember when I first read . . .” Snyder, Gary. “On the Road with D.T. Suzuki.” From A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki Remembered. Maseo Abe, ed. New York/Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1986, pp. 207–209.
“When I am listening to Dr. Suzuki's lectures . . .” A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki Remembered.
“hurried off in all directions” and “delayed his departure because,” From Benz, Ernst. “In Memoriam” from The Eastern Buddhist D.T. Suzuki Memorial Issue. Vol. 2, No. 1, (August 1967).
“In meeting him . . .” Merton, Thomas. “D.T. Suzuki: The Man and His Work.” The Eastern Buddhist D.T. Suzuki Memorial Issue. Vol. 2, No. 1, (August 1967).
“. . . ever-present interest in everything . . .” Fromm, Erich. From “Memories of Dr. D.T. Suzuki. The Eastern Buddhist. Vol. II, No. 1, (August 1967).
Zen Story: “Supreme Spiritual Ideal?” Watts, Alan. From “The Mind-less Scholar.” The Eastern Buddhist. Vol. II, No 1, (August 1967).
Zen Story: “Who's in Charge Here?” Reported by DeMartino, Richard in “On My First Coming to Meet Dr. D.T. Suzuki,” from A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki Remembered, p. 199.
Zen Story: “Know Your Own Mind.” Ibid, p. 197.
“. . . did not feel any great change occurred . . .” Okamura, Mihoko. Reported by Keiji Nishitani in Memories of Suzuki Daisetz. Tokyo: Shunjusha, 1975.
“Don't worry. Thank you! Thank you!” Suzuki, D.T. Quoted by Akishesa Kondo in “The Stone Bridge of Joshu,” The Eastern Buddhist. Vol. II, No 1, (August 1967), p. 36.
Zen Story: “Change We Must.” Reported by DeMartino, Richard in “On My First Coming to Meet Dr. D.T. Suzuki,” from A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki Remembered, pp.198–99.
“Man is a thinking reed . . .” Suzuki, D.T. (Quoted in A Zen Life, D.T. Suzuki Remembered.)
“It is said, perhaps with truth . . .” Watts, Alan. In My Own Way, p. 262.
“. . . trying to find a needle in a haystack . . .” Watts, Alan. In My Own Way, p. 142.
“From the beginning I was never interested . . .” Watts, Alan. In My Own Way, p. 262.
“. . . somewhat severe . . .” Watts, Alan. In My Own Way, p. 309.
“My only regret . . .” Watts, Alan. In My Own Way, p. 267.
“Whether his books are ‘real Zen’. . .” Snyder, Gary. Wind Bell, Vol. VIII, Nos. 1–2 (Fall 1969), p. 29.
“You completely miss the point . . .” Suzuki, Shunryu. Quoted in Chadwick, David. Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teachings of Shunryu Suzuki. New York: Broadway Books, 1999.
Zen Story: “Beyond Words.” Reported by Alan Watts. In My Own Way, p. 386.
“. . . discovery . . . of sweet Buddha . . . I always did suspect . . .” Kerouac, Jack. From 1954 letter to Allen Ginsberg, in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940–1956. Ann Charters, ed. New York: Viking, 1995. Used by permission.
“I'm really humbled now” and “O what a dream or vision,” Kerouac, Jack. From 1956 letter to Gary Snyder, in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940–1956. Ann Charters, ed. New York: Viking, 1995, p. 584. Used by permission.
“Word came out that DT Suzuki wanted to see me . . .” Kerouac, Jack. From early November 1958 letter to Philip Whalen, in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957–1969. Ann Charters, ed. New York: Viking, 1999. Used by permission.
“Dear Phil, A golden giant . . .” Kerouac, Jack. From November 1958 letter to Philip Whalen, in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957–1969. Ann Charters, ed. New York: Viking, 1999. Used by permission.
“It was a big guard station . . .” Whalen, Philip. From interview with Aram Saroyan in Off the Wall. Donald Allen, ed. Four Seasons Press, 1972.
“I am on a new kick 2 weeks old . . .” Ginsberg, Allen. From As Ever: The Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Barry Gifford, ed. Creative Arts, 1978, pp. 139–142. Used by permission.
“‘The Dharma Bums’ is a surprising story of two young . . .” Kerouac, Jack. From July 1958 letter to Viking Press Editor Tom Guinzburg, in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957–1969. Ann Charters, ed. New York: Viking, 1999. Used by permission.
“ . . . study with D.T. Suzuki, I've thought of music as . . .” Cage, John. Zero: Contemporary Buddhist Life and Thought. Vol. III, 1979, p. 69.
“Our poetry now . . .” Cage, John. Silence: Lectures and Writings. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1961.
“the melodies of silence” and “After a while one hears,” Watts, Alan. In My Own Way, p. 231.
“In connection with my study of Zen . . .” Cage, John. Zero: Contemporary Buddhist Life and Thought. Vol. III, 1979, p. 69.
“I attempt to let sounds be themselves . . .” Cage, John. From a letter to the New York Herald Tribune, May 22, 1956.
Zen Story: “The Sleep of Babes.” Reported in In My Own Way, p. 231.
Closing anecdote: “Mind your own business . . .” Miura, Isshu. From phone interview with Michael Hotz of the First Zen Institute of New York.
“I feel Americans, especially young Americans . . .” Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Trudy Dixon, ed. New York: Weatherhill, 1970, p. 138.
“This kind of group practice . . .” Maezumi, Taizan. Mountain Record (July 1982).
“[There are] boys that look like beatniks . . .” How the Swans Came to the Lake, p.227.
“He was just very present . . .” Kwong, Jakusho Bill. Zen in America, p.84.
“By the time I started to practice . . .” Weitsman, Sojun Mel. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
“When I began to practice . . .” Hartman, Blanche. Personal interview, August 2000.
Zen Story: “Absolute Freedom?” Reported by David Chadwick in Crooked Cucumber, pp. 187–189.
Zen Story: “Not Two.” Wilkie, Margot. Reported in interview with David Chadwick, from Shunryu Suzuki archive site, www.cuke.com
Zen Story: “Every Day Is Important.” Mitchell, Elsie. Sun Faced, Moon Faced Buddha, A Zen Quest. New York/Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1973, Ch. 13.
Zen Story: “Follow the Yes.” Thanas, Katharine. Personal Interview, Sept. 2000.
“Before you attain enlightenment, enlightenment is there . . .” Suzuki, Shunryu. Wind Bell, Vol. VII, Nos. 3–4 (Fall 1968), p. 27.
“To take this posture itself . . .” Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, p. 25.
“What's here right now? Delusion . . .” Maezumi, Taizan. Mountain Record (August 1982).
Zen Story: “Better Not to Ask.” Wick, Gerry Shishin. Personal interview, April 2000.
Zen Story: “What Is It Like?” Loori, John Daido. Personal interview, March 2001.
Zen Story: “Never Mind That.” Anonymous, personal remembrance.
Zen Story: “We're Responsible.” Wick, Gerry Shishin, Personal interview, April 2000.
Zen Story: “A Matter of Life and Death.” Loori, John Daido. Personal interview, Spring 2001.
“Our practice rests on a physical base . . .” Maezumi, Taizan, with Glassman, Bernard Tetsugen. On Zen Practice. Los Angeles: Zen Center Publications, 1976.
“To get this chance . . .” Nakagawa, Soen. The Soen Roku: The Sayings and Doings of Master Soen. Eido Tai Shimano, ed. New York: The Zen Studies Society, p. 20.
“I've taken off my mask . . .” Nakagawa, Soen. Reported by John Daido Loori, personal interview, March 2001.
“Look at Buddha,” “tradition,” and “Without getting in a spaceship,” as well as Beecher Lake invisible tea party, reported by Mick Sopko, personal interview, Sept. 2000.
Floating unsinkable on the surface of the Dead Sea. Reported in Endless Vow: The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa. Presented, with an introduction by Eido T. Shimano, compiled and translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Roko Sherry Chayat. Boston and London: Shambhala, 1996, p. 120.
“There, now you make the water . . .” Reported by Derrick, Joan Yushin, June 2000.
Zen Story: “Does a Dog Have Buddha Nature?” Johnson, Wendy. Personal interview Sept. 2000.
Zen Story: “Nobody Home.” Matthiessen, Peter. Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982. Boston: Shambhala, 1987, p. 50.
Zen Story: “Shaking Hands with Essence.” Nakagawa, Soen. The Soen Roku, pp. 17–18.
Zen Story: “Nobody Home.” Konigsberg, Harvey. Phone interview, Oct. 2001. First reported by Kathy Fusho Nolan, personal interview, June 2000.
“Most people think that we live . . .” Nakagawa, Soen. Endless Vow, pp. 101–102.
“There is a wonderful Buddha statue . . .” Nakagawa, Soen. The Soen Roku, pp. 1–2.
“Cooking, eating, sleeping, every deed . . .” Nakagawa, Soen. Reported by Peter Matthiessen in Nine-Headed Dragon River, p. 275.
“During the war in Vietnam . . .” Hanh, Thich Nhat. From Brown, Jerry. Dialogues. Berkeley: Berkeley Hills Books, 1998, p. 123.
Zen Story: “Not Taking Sides.” Hanh, Thich Nhat. Reported by Wendy Johnson. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
Zen Story: “Don't Just Do Something . . .” Hanh, Thich Nhat. Being Peace. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1987, pp. 109–110.
Zen Story: “Touching the Present Moment.” Reported in How the Swans Came to the Lake.
Zen Story: “The True Secret of Mindfulness.” O'Neill, Kate. Personal interview, Spring, 2001.
“In 1976 I went to the gulf of Siam . . .” Hanh, Thich Nhat. The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1996, p. 46.
“If I had supernatural powers . . .” Ibid. p. 61.
“Just the way he opens a door . . .” Merton, Thomas. Reported in Hanh, Thich Nhat and friends. A Joyful Path. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1994, p. 136.
“We may like to use the word self . . .” Hanh, Thich Nhat. Dialogues, p. 121.
“When you are guided by compassion . . .” Hanh, Thich Nhat. Dialogues, pp. 129–130.
“Wendy Johnson reports on a Peace March with Thich Nhat Hanh.” From Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World, Bantam Books, 2008.
“Moment to moment, how do you help others?” Sahn, Seung. The Best of Primary Point. Rhode Island: Kwan Um School of Zen, 1992, 1994, p. 50.
“. . . his young hippie students . . .” Mitchell, Stephen. From foreword to Sahn, Seung. The Whole World Is a Single Flower: 365 Kongans for Everyday Life. Jane McLaughlin and Paul Muenzen, eds. Boston/Tokyo: The Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1992, p. viii.
“I just loved Soen-sa-nim's humor . . .” Halifax, Joan. From personal interview, August 2000.
“Soen-sa bowed to him . . .” Mitchell, Stephen. From “The Story of Seung Sanh Soen-sa,” in The Whole World Is a Single Flower, pp. 230–231.
Zen Story: “Already a Corpse.” Goodman, Trudy. Personal interview, February, 2000.
Zen Stories: “No More Reading, An Old, Old, Thing,” and “But Why?” Dobisc, Jane. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
Zen Story: “Very Good Demonstration.” Multiple sources—oral tradition.
“Human beings understand too much . . .” Sahn, Seung. Tricycle (Winter 1996), p. 26.
“What we call ‘world’ is only an opinion . . .” Ibid. p. 28.
“Katagiri Roshi once said . . .” Goldberg, Natalie. Personal interview, Nov. 2000.
Zen Story: “Changing the World.” Schelling, Andrew. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
Zen Story: “No Thought Required.” Goodman, Trudy. Personal interview, Feb. 2000.
Zen Story: “New Tricks?” Boissevain, Angie. Personal interview, Spring, 2000.
Zen Story: “Form Is Emptiness.” Boissevain, Angie. Personal interview, Spring, 2000.
“I'm not sitting only . . .” Reported by Natalie Goldberg. Personal interview, Summer 2001.
“Have kind consideration . . .” Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones. Boston: Shambhala, 1986.
“The night before I'd been in the zendo . . .” Johnson, Wendy. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
“Some of the leaders . . .” Rand, Yvonne. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
“It's like war coming up . . .” and “infinite potential . . .” Anonymous. Personal interview, Nov. 2000.
“Katagiri wanted the challenge . . .” Reported by Clusin, Jodo Cliff. E-mail correspondence, Sept. 2001.
“If you showed up for dawn zazen . . .” Goldberg, Natalie. Personal interview, Nov. 2000.
“I was the Ino . . .” Anonymous. Personal interview, Nov. 2000.
“You could see it . . .” Courtney, Paul. Personal interview, Nov. 2000.
“I was working for an insurance company . . .” Clusin, Jodo Cliff. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
“In Zen you rest your frontal lobe . . .” Courtney, Paul. Personal interview, Nov. 2000.
“Katagiri Roshi gave me a vision . . .” Goldberg, Natalie. Personal interview, Nov. 2000.
Zen Story: “No Matter Where You Go, There You Are.” Reported by Jodo Cliff Clusin. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
Zen Story: “Yeah, So What Good Is It?” Anonymous. Personal interview, Nov. 2000.
Zen Story: “An Unpaid Debt.” Clusin, Jodo Cliff. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
Zen Story: “Gathering No Moss.” Leyshon, Jean. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
“Buddhism, the real Buddhism . . .” Tsung Tsai. Reported by George Crane in Bones of the Master: A Buddhist Monk's Search for the Lost Heart of China. New York: Bantam, 2000.
“The most fascinating thing . . .” Crane, George. Personal interview, May 2000.
Zen Stories: “Who's the Boss?” and “A Little Advice.” Crane, George. Personal interview, May 2000.
“Sparse Plum” by Zhou Lu Jing, “Hermit Crazy About Plum” translated by Tsung Tsai and George Crane. Used by permission.
“I became legal . . .” From interview with Tsung Tsai and George Crane by Mary Talbot. Tricycle (Spring 2000), p. 98.
Zen Story: “Hitting Bottom.” Strand, Clark. Personal interview, 2000.
Zen Stories: “Making Firewood” and “What Next?” Reported by Michael Sierchio.
Zen Story: “Every Little Bit Counts.” Reported by Steve Sanfield in “The Inner Passage,” from Zen and Hasidism. Ed: Harold Heifetz. Wheaton, IL/Madras/London: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1978, p. 226.
Zen Story: “Close, but No Cigar.” Anonymous. Personal remembrance, June 2000.
Zen Story: “Berry Pie.” Reported by Hung Ju in Three Steps, One Bow. San Francisco: Ten Thousand Buddhas Press/The Buddhist Text Translation Society, 1977, pp. 24–25.
Zen Story: “Throwing Away the Key.” Reported by Stan White. Personal interview, April 2000.
Zen Story: “The True Reason.” Personal remembrance, August 2000.
“Jane Dobisc, who later became . . .” Dobisc, Jane. Personal interview, October 2000.
“You yourself are time . . .” Kapleau, Philip. Zen Dawn in the West, p. 160.
Zen Story: “A Case of Unmistakable Identity.” Reported in American Zen: Twenty Years (commemorative booklet). Rochester: The Zen Center, 1986, p. 24.
Zen Story: “Neither Hard Nor Easy.” From Zen Dawn in the West, p.84.
Zen Story: “What Does Zen Say?” From Zen Dawn in the West.
Zen Story: “This Side Up.” Glassman, Bernie. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
Zen Story: “Now We Can Eat Together.” Rand, Yvonne. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
Zen Story: “Now the Work Begins.” Kjolhede, Sunya. Telephone interview, Winter 2001.
Zen Story: “Mountain Seat.” Description by Denis Lahey in Wind Bell, Vol. VI (1972), pp. 11–13.
Zen Story: “Flown the Coop?” Strand, Clark. Personal interview, 2000.
Zen Story: “Only Breath, Breathing.” Rand, Yvonne. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
“Dainin Katagiri visited Suzuki Roshi . . .” Goldberg, Natalie. Personal interview, Nov. 2001.
“Shortly before his death . . .” White, Stan. Personal interview, April 2000.
Zen Story: “Tea for Four.” Loori, John Daido. Personal interview, Spring 2001.
“The Dharma of Thusness . . .” poem by Taizan Maezumi. Mountain Record (Summer 1995).
“Zen teacher Danan Henry . . .” Henry, Danan. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
“Walter Nowick used to tell the story . . .” Leff, Stephen. Personal interview, June 2000.
Zen Story: “Eyes That See in the Dark.” Leff, Stephen. Personal interview, June 2000.
Zen Story: “Don't Hurt the Bird.” Leff, Stephen. Personal interview, June 2000.
Zen Story: “Light and Shadow.” Leff, Stephen. Personal interview, June 2000.
“When Zen teacher Mitra Bishop . . .” Bishop, Mitra. Personal interview, Winter 2001.
“The mercy of the West has been . . .” Snyder, Gary. “Buddhism and the Coming Revolution.” From Earth House Hold: Technical Notes and Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries. New York: New Directions, 1969.
“The whole notion of engaged Buddhism . . .” Jurs, Cynthia. Personal interview, Sept. 2001.
“[Social action] arises from the sense that . . .” Aitken, Robert. Phone interview, Sept. 2001.
“All people, whether perpetrators . . .” Senauke, Hozan Alan. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
“If there's a gash . . .” Glassman, Bernie. Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace. New York: Bell Tower, 1998, p. 50.
Zen Story: “True Intimacy.” Kapleau, Philip. Zen Dawn in the West, p. 200.
Zen Story: “Taking Care of Each Other.” Allen, Steve. Phone interview, Sept. 2001.
“Right action then, means sweeping . . .” Snyder, Gary. Snyder, Gary. The Real Work, p. 119.
“What happens in practice . . .” Halifax, Joan. Personal interview, August 2000.
Prison interview material. From personal interview with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, June 2000.
“Your life is your practice . . . .” Stuart, Maurine. Reported in Zen in America, p. 165.
Zen Story: “Identity, or Responsibility?” Allen, Steve. Phone interview, Sept. 2001.
“A student visiting with . . . .” Hahn, Thich Nhat. The Miracle of Mindfulness. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975, p. 7.
“I learned something very interesting . . .” Kaye, Les. Zen at Work. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1996, p. 14.
“I remember . . . I was working at Greens . . .” Wenger, Dairyu Michael. Personal interview, Aug. 2000.
Zen Story: “Sacred Vessels.” Brother David. Wind Bell, Vol. VII, Nos. 3–4 (Fall 1968), p. 17.
“During a retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh . . .” Vineyard, Mary. From “Psychotherapy and Meditation,” in Radical Grace, publication of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque. Vol. 2, No. 4.
“I'd been studying Zen maybe eight years . . .” Green, Ron Hogen. Personal interview, May 2000.
Zen Story: “Transformation.” Ho, Mobi. “Animal Dharma.” Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology. Allan Hunt Badiner, ed. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1990, p. 130.
Zen Story: “Performing Magic.” Loori, John Daido. Personal interview, May 2000.
Zen Story: “A Turning of the Heart.” Fischer, Zoketsu Norman. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
“A long time Zen practitioner . . .” Leff, Stephen. Personal interview, June 2000.
“A life-long Catholic . . .” Ancheta, Jitsudo. Personal interview, June 2000.
“. . . presumptuous statements” etc. Kapleau, Philip. Zen: Dawn in the West.
Zen Story: “How Original Can You Get?” Personal experience.
Zen Story: “Making Contact.” Brown, Jerry. Personal interview, August 2000.
“We all carry this very deep territory . . .” Martin, Rafe. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
“Whatever made people think Mind isn't . . .” Snyder, Gary. Jimmy and Lucy's House of ‘K’, No. 9 (January 1989), p. 12.
“Zazen, certainly, is the most important . . .” Aitken, Robert. Phone interview, Sept. 2001.
“What does zazen do . . .” Leff, Stephen. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
“. . . to fathom all the intricate layers of who we think we are . . .” Kwong, Jakusho Bill. Zen in America, p. 73.
Zen Story: “Press “C”.” Rhodes, Barbara. From talk at Zen Mountain Monastery.
“In Zen practice we use incense a great deal . . .” Kaye, Les. Zen at Work, p. 130.
“Kapleau-san, when you make prostrations . . .” reported by Philip Kapleau in Zen Dawn in the West, p. 191.
Zen Story: “Gesture Reciprocated.” Fischer, Zoketsu Norman. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
When his students asked Shunryu Suzuki . . .” Zen in America, p. 225.
“Enlightenment? You won't hear that word . . .” Aitken, Robert. Phone interview, Sept. 2001.
“I think big experiences . . .” Wenger, Dairyu Michael. Personal interview, Aug. 2000.
“The enlightened man neither opposes nor evades . . .” Kapleau, Philip. Zen Dawn in the West, p. 160.
“The definition of an enlightened person . . .” Baker, Richard. Tricycle, Fall 1996, p. 109.
“How do you establish a foundation . . .” Master Sheng-yen. Getting the Buddha Mind. New York: Dharma Drum Publications, 1982, p. 93.
“If a candle is brought into an absolutely dark room . . .” Suzuki, D.T., Fromm, Erich, and DeMartino, Richard. Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1963, p. 138.
“The moment of awakening may be marked . . . .” Hanh, Thich Nhat. Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1974, p. 44.
“Enlightenment is not anything a person with an inquiring mind . . .” Farkas, Mary. “My Early Life.” Mary Farkas: Appreciations and Conversations, p. 72.
“As for realization . . .” Senzaki, Nyogen. Zen Notes. Vol. VI, No. 4, (1957).
Zen Story: “Expressing Enlightenment.” Kaye, Les, Zen at Work, pp. 37–38.
Zen Story: “Hitting the 900-Year-Old Bell.” Leyshon, Jean. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
“I must confess that I don't have the faintest idea . . .” Snyder, Gary. Jimmy and Lucy's House of ‘K’, No. 9 (January 1989), p. 22.
“The practice is so simple, really . . .” Glassman, Bernie. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
Zen Story: “Sometimes It's Better Not to Know.” Marchaj, Konrad Ryushin. Personal interview, June 2000.
Zen Story: “Nothing but the Truth.” Ancheta, Jitsudo. Personal interview, June 2000.
“Zen Mind is one of those enigmatic phrases . . .” Baker, Richard.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, p.13.
“When we see into the emptiness or illusory nature . . .” Arnold, Geoffrey Shugen. Mountain Record, Summer 1998, p. 24.
“Given the Truth that nothing exists . . .” Master Sheng-yen. Getting the Buddha Mind, pp. 187–188.
Zen Story: “Full of Everything.” Whalen, Philip. Jimmy and Lucy's House of ‘K’, No. 9 (January 1989), p. 21.
Zen Story: “Absolutely Not.” Warner, Jisho. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
“Some people think that . . .” Hanh, Thich Nhat. “Remarks on Buddhism and Psychotherapy.” From Reseedings: Dharma and Drama: Reseedings from the National Conference on Buddhism and Psychotherapy. Ed: Rowan Conrad. Buddhist Peace Fellowship/Order of Interbeing, 1990, p. 7.
“Forgetting the self is a peak experience . . .” Aitken, Robert. Phone interview, Sept. 2001.
“Life and death are nothing but movement . . .” Loori, John Daido. Mountain Record, Summer 1998 pp. 7–8.
“The self is not to be despised . . .” Master Sheng-yen. Getting the Buddha Mind.
“All we have is what we notice.” Baker, Richard. Reported by Joan Halifax in Tricycle, Spring 1996, p. 28.
“Wherever you are, you are in the zendo . . .” Glassman, Bernie. Zen in America, p. 116.
“One day when I was walking . . .” Halifax, Joan. Tricycle, Spring 1996, p. 28.
Zen Story: “Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls . . .” Jurs, Cynthia. Personal interview, Sept. 2001.
“No matter how far out on the sea . . .” Treace, Bonnie Myotai. Mountain Record, Summer 1998, p. 18.
“What the Buddha actually came for . . .” Reps, Paul. Wind Bell, Fall 1990, p. 6.
“If you could change one thing in your life . . .” Ford, Maureen Jisho. Mountain Record, Winter 1993, p. 34.
Zen Story: “Just as It Is.” O'Hara, Pat Enkyo. Tricycle, Fall 1998, p. 76.
Zen Story: “The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel.” Allen, Steve. Phone interview, Sept. 2001.
“Cancer—it stops you in your tracks . . .” Thanas, Katharine. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
“It had rained during the night . . .” Rand, Yvonne. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
Zen Story: “I'm O.K.—How About You?” Strassman, Rick. Personal interview, May 2001.
Zen Story: “Problem or Challenge?” Goodman, Trudy. Personal interview, February, 2000.
Zen Story: “Nowhere to Go.” Allen, Steve. From Issan Dorsey memorial service, Sept. 2000.
Zen Story: “Trading Places.” Allen, Steve. From Issan Dorsey memorial service, Sept. 2000.
Zen Story: “Universal Sound.” Dobisc, Jane. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
Zen Story: “How You Play the Game . . .” Personal remembrance.
Zen Story: “Die Now.” Personal interview, Nov. 2000.
“People want so much . . .” Kwong, Jakusho Bill. Zen in America, p. 86.
“Zen is not about nonmovement . . .” Glassman, Bernie. Zen in America, p. 113.
“Bearing witness is an experience . . .” Gordon, Rose. Personal interview, May 2001.
Description of Glassman street retreats. Schelling, Andrew, and Waldman, Anne. Personal interviews, October 2000.
“Spring Sesshin in the Bowery (II) April 1992.” Poem by Andrew Schelling. Used by permission.
Zen Story: “Living in the Now.” Glassman, Bernie. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
Natalie Goldberg material from personal interviews and experience, Nov. 2000 and July 2001.
“One night there was a psychiatrist . . .” O'Neill, Kate. Personal interview, Spring 2001.
“I'd done a fair amount of therapy . . .” Senauke, Hozan Alan. Personal interview, Aug. 2000.
“One way to look at the difference between Zen practice . . .” Sachter, Lawson. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
“If we can't take the teachings to heart . . .” Jurs, Cynthia. Personal interview, Sept. 2001.
Zen Story: “The Way to Mental Health.” Fromm, Erich. A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki Remembered.
“With unfailing kindness . . .” Beck, Charlotte Joko. Tricycle, Summer 1998, p. 39.
“There's a confusion between our kind of work and psychotherapy . . .” Rizzetto, Diane. Personal interview, Sept. 2000.
“Suppose someone has hurt my feelings . . .” Beck, Charlotte Joko. Tricycle, Summer 1998, p. 39.
“One of the things Joko helped me with greatly . . .” Goodkind, Joel. Personal interview, Spring 2000.
“After Danan Henry's transmission ceremony . . .” Henry, Danan. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
“A roshi is a person . . .” Dixon, Trudy. From introduction to Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, p. 18.
“Without pointing a finger at anyone . . .” Aitken, Robert. Phone interview, Sept. 2001.
“In the original Buddhist order . . .” Glassman, Bernie. Personal experience, June 2000.
“I realized that this person was not my father . . .” Senauke, Hozan Alan. Personal interview, Aug. 2000.
“You may say, ‘Well, I need a teacher’ . . .” Beck, Charlotte Joko. Everyday Zen: Love and Work. San Francisco: Harper.
“Here I was, a dharma teacher . . .” Fischer, Zoketsu Norman. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
“My responsibility is to encourage . . .” Henry, Danan. Personal interview, Oct. 2000.
“I can't give anything to anyone . . .” Stuart, Maurine. From Zen in America, p. 164.
“To Shi-fu . . . There is nothing special . . .” Master Sheng-yen. Getting the Buddha Mind, p. 85.
“I'm heartened by the fact that I have a few . . .” Aitken, Robert. Phone interview, Sept. 2001.
“I set off after Roshi did . . .” Ancheta, Jitsudo. Personal interview, June 2000.
Zen Story: “Teacher or Friend?” White, Stan. Personal interview, April 2000.
Zen Story: “The Same Chord, in Harmony.” Master Sheng-yen. Getting the Buddha Mind, p. 171.
Zen Story: “Nothing to Give.” Loori, John Daido. Personal interview, May 2000.
“A student from another Zen center . . .” Goodman, Trudy. Personal interview, Feb. 2000.