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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Foreword by Shinzan Miyamae
Introduction
What you need and what you don’t
PART I: The First Forty-Nine Days
1. The Physicality of Zen Practice
Aligning your body for Zen practice
2. Working with the Breath
Breathing meditation
3. Uncovering Your Fundamental Adequacy
The Unborn
Unborn meditation
4. Your Burning Question
Meditating with a Koan
Meditation with the koan ‘Who am I?’
5. From Sickness to Health
Soft Ointment Meditation
Soft ointment meditation
6. Cultivating Guts
Energising Your Hara
Building your hara
7. Standing Strong
Including Your Legs
Energising the legs
8. Activity’s Wheel Runs Free
Turning the wheel of the law
Part II: The Rest of Your Life
9. Bringing it all Together
Combined practice
10. Roadmaps for Your Journey
1. The search for the ox
2. Discovering the footprints
3. Perceiving the ox
4. Catching the ox
5. Taming the ox
6. Riding the ox home
7. The ox transcended
8. Both ox and self transcended
9. Reaching the source
10. Returning to the world
11. Putting it into Practice
Case Studies
Ed Evans: ‘It’s here! You’ve already got it’
Kim Bennett: ‘It was so simple. Everything I’d been looking for was here’
Chris Owen: ‘An enormous sense of being unburdened’
Ruth Pople: ‘I know who I am’
Sean Collins: ‘I got it! I understood myself’
Boris Motik: ‘So much fear dropped away and I felt euphoric’
Diana Treleaven: ‘Swimming in an ocean of bliss’
12. Joining the Lineage
Part III: Background Material
13. Source Texts and Essential Teachings
‘The Buddha’s Teaching on Breathing’ from The Mahasatipatthana Sutta (The Great Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness)
Bankei’s Essential Teachings
Bankei’s retreat teaching given at Rohatsu (on the anniversary of the Buddha’s enlightenment)
Shinzan Rōshi on the koan
Night Boat Conversation by Hakuin Zenji
Yasenkana (Night Boat Conversation) by Hakuin Zenji
From Hakuin’s Rohatsu retreat instructions
14. Shinzan and Daizan, Two Lives
Shinzan Rōshi
Daizan
Taking Things Further
Glossary
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Acknowledgements
Copyright
Of Related Interest
Endorsements
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