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Praise Title Page PUBLISHER’S ACKNOWLEDGMENT Foreword Introduction THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EIHEI KŌROKU AND ITS TRANSLATION DŌGEN AND KŌANS “ON READING EIHEI KŌROKU” EIHEI KŌROKU - DŌGEN’S EXTENSIVE RECORD KŌSHŌJI GOROKU - RECORDED SAYINGS OF THE FOUNDER OF KŌSHŌJI ZEN TEMPLE IN ...

The Family Style in the Golden Country Dropping Off Old Sandals Not Negating the False; Not Hiding the Straight The Wondrous Essence Beyond Assessments The Range of Pilgrimage What Is the Sutra Dragon Howls and Tiger Roars A Plum’s Ripening A Phrase of Bright Clarity Expounding and Practicing atop a Hundred-Foot Pole Studying Together without Lack Remain atop a Hundred-Foot Pole with Each Step Completing a Full Moon Refined Daily in the Open Furnace Igniting Practice Healing the Separation between Blades of Grass The Simplicity of True Spiritual Power The Practice of Thusness A Phrase for Manifesting Form Inhaling and Exhaling Sutras Practice Together with a Single Person Not Attaining, Not Knowing Blue Mountains Walking; Giving Birth at Night An Expression Never Before Expounded The Growth of Oneness Complete Meeting of Host and Guest Our Own Work Enter the Grass Beyond the Marrow Beyond Two or One A Flat Path The Advantage of New Years A Place to Live Penetrating Cold Vision Beyond Buddhas and Demons Apparent in Every Color A Direct Question The Difficulty of Such a Thing The Remaining Raindrops Clarifying Aspiration Loving Mountains in All Three Times Unobstructed Good Fortune Sounds of the Ancestral Breeze Gathering Grasses The Ornaments of Perfect Wisdom The Dharma Pervades from Surface to Core The Primordial Thirty Blows Deceiving the Teacher The Ever-Present Dharma Discourse The Deafening Shout A Profusion of Weeds Study of Sounds and Colors Nothing Is Hidden Who Saves All Beings? A Child with Red Heart Taking Care of the Mustard Seed The Nightingale Tune and the Hollow Man Not Much to Sixty Blows What Is Intimacy? This Genjōkōan Maitreya Already Descended Baizhang’s Fox Is Clear The Variety of Wind The Seven Wise Women and the Shout without Echoes Clouds Attracted to Mountains There Is a Mountain Path Suchness Beyond Struggle Jumping and Stumbling in a Fragrant World Presenting an Offering Innumerable Simultaneous Dharma Hall Discourses Boundless Awareness Beyond Buddha Nature Not Yet Attained Memory of Spring Coming and Going within Life and Death A Tired Infant Speechless in Autumn A Bright Full Moon The Sky in Each Object The Active Dharma Wheel Ancestral Knowledge An Awakening Tree Plenty of Enlightenment An Ocean Deity Beyond Emptiness All-Pervading Melted Snow Maturing in the Way Everyday Serenity The Function Enacted Buddha Underfoot Mount Sumeru’s Mistakes New Year Blossoms An Everlasting Blossom Meet the Teacher Not Knowing the Person Meet the Teacher Knowing the Person Baizhang’s Fox and the Vanishing Flowers The Wide Study of Ancient Buddhas The Unmastered Sounds and Colors of the Careful Heart Radiance Responds Bathing with the Baby Buddha No Sword Can Cut It Using a Broken Key Wrapped in Bamboo The More Mud the Bigger the Buddha Difficult to Hear The Grain of Autumn Tiantong Rujing Arrives from the West A Good Laugh Holding the Universe in a Demon’s Cave Wind and Clouds Eating Sesame Cakes Iron Men with Red Heart Rolling Up One Piece of Skin The Sangha Ocean Dries Up A Transformation in the Monastery A Mouth Like a Bowl of Blood The Ingredients for Making a Whisk Now We Can Enjoy Our Sleep Buddhas Dance and Blossoms Open Genuine Study in Spring Playing with the Buddha Ancestors The Dharma Expounds the Buddha The Single Vehicle A Last Song at Midnight The Single Red Fire of a Life of Training Punching Out the Empty Sky to Sell Eyes of Compassion A Good Time for Zazen Thirty Years of No Teachers Drawing a Person at Midnight

DAIBUTSU GOROKU - RECORDED SAYINGS OF THE FOUNDER OF DAIBUTSUJI TEMPLE ON ...

Not Beginning, Not Going Beyond The Evening Meetings and Full Expression of Great Monasteries The Host Lays Down the Law Stretching Out in the Circle The Connecting Pivot Right Now One Cannot Avoid Losing Life A Bow upon Meeting and the Single Phrase Subhūti’s Silence Surpassing Vimalakīrti Polishing a Jewel amid Snowfall Meeting the World-Honored One Gratitude in the Assembly A Wooden Ladle Striking in the Place We Cannot Avoid The Capabilities of Iron Persons The Indestructible Nature in Deep Muddy Water Not Merely Glimpsing Fishing for a Person Horns Hidden behind the Big Dipper The Many Kinds of Great Dragons and Snakes, Horses and Cows In Stagnant Water a Dragon Hides The Upright Staff of Daibutsu The Same Root and Body The Reality of Practice Immeasurable Kalpas on the End of a Staff Abandon the Seven Ton Bow The Music of Snow and the Refreshing Flowers What Is This Laughter? Tuning the Strings on the Path without Mistakes Seeing the Birth Right Now Seeing the Face of Maitreya Greeting Monks Beyond Calculation In Disciplined Restraint a Sitting Cushion Bears Fruit The Body of Prajñā The Power of Gruel and Rice Not Saying Alive, Not Saying Dead Showing the Jewel in the Black Moon Sky Flowers Fluttering How to Speak with Lips Shut Where Flowers Rain From Shitou Disturbs the Water Buffaloes Strong Legs Cannot Avoid Deceiving the Teacher The Moon Brings Forth Two The Grass That Doesn’t Enter through the Gate A Clear-Eyed Layman A Black Staff on Full-Moon Day A Buddha Ancestor at Your Feet Thirty Incoherent Years of Fragrant Wind Dye the Clouds White and Wash the Moon The Moon in the Window Temporarily Wearing Dirty Clothes Renaming Eiheiji, Eternal Peace The Capacity of Students The Space of Returning to the Source Maitreya Expounds Just This Simply the Yellow Scroll Seeing the Buddha as a Tile Maker A Repentance Ceremony after Ninety Days in Buddha’s Hand A Memorial to Tiantong Rujing, Deceived by Dōgen

EIHEI ZENJI GOROKU - RECORDEDSAYINGS AT EIHEIJI TEMPLE AT EIHEIJI TEMPLE

6The Teacher’s Compassion and Disciple’s Determination The Moon Comes Naturally to the Pond Bodhidharma’s Single Utterance A Peaceful Lifetime of Wearing Through Straw Sandals The Moon Produces Joyful Vigor Abiding in Mountains without Personal Preferences When Tired I Sleep Small Fish Swallow Big Fish Thinking That Circles the Earth Rocks Nod and Sky Vanishes A Demonstration of the Six Spiritual Powers Extending a Simple Wish for Health and Blessings Two Monks and a Worm-Filled Puddle Renewing Confirmation Beyond Ancient Predictions A Seed Planted in the Sky and the Cold Ash Revived Valley Streams and Mountains Speak Softly, and Readily Attend to Others The Bottomless Bowl of a Monk Discriminations of the Unconditioned Dharma Fields All in White, the Empty Sky Ages Rice Eats a Person Stop Baizhang’s Wild-Fox Monster The Blessings of Hongzhi and Dōgen on the Arising of Yang The Zen School Never Has Existed The Nourishment of a Chunk of Clay Perfect Wisdom Drinks the Water and Carries Firewood The Virtue of Unwashable Bowls Not Speaking about Juzhi’s One Finger It’s Not Even in India A Plum on Last Year’s Branch Eyes Wide Open The Place of Half a Person Delighted with Zazen Yunmen’s Place of Great Intimacy How to Encounter People for Their Sake In Accord with Dignified Cushions and Ladles No Wonderful Secret to the Single Function Host and Guest Not Meeting; Then Sharing One House A Cock Crows at Dawn The Moon in the Ageless Cauldron Nostrils Half Drilled Seeing the Tathāgata’s Life Vein in the Midnight Frost Zhaozhou’s Dogs and Dōgen’s Cats Music Beyond the Three Phrases An Upright Staff Turns the Wheel of Dharma In the Realm of Broken Ladle Buddha The Pines Are Chilling and Bodhidharma Is Long Gone Turning the Four Noble Truths Spring for the Single Family Realizing the Two Emptinesses A Demonic Temptation The Stone Woman’s Charms Not Receiving Sensation and the Vital Path Refreshed Freeing the Circle and the Single Stroke Pull Your Own Nose and Lift the Ancient Kōan The Courage of Patch-Robed Monks The Assembly’s Statement Transcending Śākyamuni’s Utterance An Eighty-Thousand Foot Cliff No Two-Sided Speech and Rivers Flowing Upstream The Radiance of Each Place Expounding in Accord with Japan Monks’ Bowls Open Their Mouths Verses for the Original Mind Wishes for the Emperor’s Birthday Eyes and Nostrils Open Tiantong Rujing’s Troublemaking Meeting People of the Way A Mountain Homecoming from Kamakura The Single Voice of Younger and Older Brothers On the High Mountain, Spring Comes Late A Lion Knows a Lion’s Roar Body and Mind Connected with the Ten Thousand Forms Washing an Unstainable Body Practicing Together with the Tathāgatas

EIHEI ZENJI GOROKU - RECORDEDSAYINGS AT EIHEIJI TEMPLE AT EIHEIJI TEMPLE

Playing the Iron Flute A Day of Just Sitting and Just Sleeping The Fifth Ancestor’s Three Hits The Spread of Healing Wisdom Scooping Up the Dharmakāya Meeting It without Recognition The Function of Emptiness and the Protection of the Mind Seal Just Come and Go Demonstrations of Practice Clarified in the Dawn Wind Nanquan Not Involved with the Demon Spirits Sparrows and Crows in the Vast Universe The Land Is the Entire Body of Buddha Speak of Not Speaking Freely Using a Black Staff What Should Be Cherished What Kind of Place Is This? Tiantong Rujing’s Last Pilgrimage The Fruit of Past Lives Tiantong Rujing’s Last Somersault Polishing the Second Moon Not Knowing Samādhi Just Sitting in the Timeless Spring The Staff and Fist of Grandmother Mind The Daily Activity of Clouds and Water The Jewel Illuminating All Things The Sounds of Emptiness The Eyeballs of Mindfulness Spring and Autumn on the Ancient Road The Genuine Body and Mind Mind-Nature in Young and Old The Warmth of Practice Down in Śākyamuni’s Cave The Colors of Eiheiji The Way Is Not Easy Repaying for Your Food in the Solitary Reality Danger in Practice Not Denigrating Buddha Practicing with No Mind In Lengthening Daylight, a Horse Gallops Blossoming in the Snow Thunderbolts That Help Lotuses Open A Fire Boy’s Dedicated Play The Livelihood in the Innermost Hall The Ultimate Function within Stages The One Self at Year’s End The Smiling Face at New Year’s Bodhidharma’s Not Knowing Nurturing Spring under Two Moons A Breakfast for Dropping Off Body and Mind The Sameness and Difference of the Four Elements Amid Changing Scenery, Mountains Are Mountains Resting and Going Ahead within Unceasing Samādhi Dōgen’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness Freedom in Life and Death Clarifying the Harmony of Light and Dark Practice That Continues Beyond Magical Offerings Roaring Lions Do Not Fear Disappointment The Ordinary Tea and Rice of Turning the Great Dharma Wheel Eminent and Vigorous in Tattered Robes The Certainty before the Peaches Blossomed Truly Dropping Off Body and Mind Mind Is Walls; Buddha Is Mud The Ladle Is in Your Hands Asking about the Unknowable Offering Rice to Demons This Very Mind Cutting Notches in the Boat Clarifying Morning and Evening Harvesting Practice amid the Rainy Season Feeding Sixteen-Foot Grasses to the Water Buffalo The Ancient Crane Flying throughout the World Don’t Have Deluded Thoughts Neither Right nor Wrong Slander! The Indestructible Tiles and Pebbles The Fallen Flower Still Blooms Here The Fist Like a Thunderbolt The Unceasing Smile without Any Separation A Pitiful Condition Transcribing Dharma The Reality of Just Sitting Not Designing Buddha Not Escaping Buddha; Not Escaping Delusion The Richness of Cultivation Further Effort Beyond Counting Remembering Tiantong Rujing Zazen Beyond Categories Sitting on the Autumn Moon Not Misled by Duality, a Clay Ox Melts into the Ocean

EIHEI ZENJI GOROKU - RECORDED SAYINGS AT EIHEIJI TEMPLE

Encouragement for the Autumn Rocks The Fist with No Hands Like a Lotus in Flames The Conditions of Awakening Deepen Intimacy with Self and Others The Lineage of Study of No-Mind Just Raising the Whisk Everyday Practice of the Ancient Mirror Monkey Mind Is Not Buddha Seeing the Smoke and the Primary Destination The Understanding of Temple Pillars Overseeing Fragrance Did the Saga Empress Hear a Partridge Sing? Reality Blossoms on Top of a Staff The Wondrous Fragrance of Wisdom and Virtue Amid Snow The Benefits of Performance of the Tripitaka The Ten Thousand Peaks Shine with the Golden Tripitaka In Gratitude to my Father Spring Arises Beyond All Control The Fruits of No-Mind and This Mind The Tripitaka Is Embroidered on the Eiheiji Brocade Filled with Sadness Despite Trusting His Words Exposing Wild Foxes Responding to the Fifth Ancestor as One Not Mind, Not Things, Not Buddha Garuḍas Choose to Eat Dragons Undisturbed by Thunderclaps The Vitality of Beyond-Thinking Protection of Nondefilement The Importance of Zazen What Is Behind the Back of Just This The Offering Beyond Seeking Rare and Wonderful A Timeless Appeal to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for Clear Skies Just Practice Buddha’s Way Wisdom Is Not the Way Demon Zen Keep the Faculties Sharp and Clear Tiantong Rujing’s Single Gaze The Echoes of Emptiness Genuine Faith and the Teaching of Causality The Cause for Buddhas’ Appearance Practice without Scattering Flowers The Senses as Tuned by Zazen How to Breathe in Zazen Life and Death without Abode A Warm Tear in the Freezing Mountain Caring for the Family Style The Final Power The Natureless Nature The Warmth of Bodhidharma’s Spirit Sitting on the Ground of Prajñā The True Dragon Sharing the Seat Before and After Come Together Expressing the Seamless Transmission The Merit of the Tenzo’s Activity An Unbeneficial Philosophy about Self and Spirit A Donkey with a Vital Eye The Bright Grasses Meet Spring Anew A Cold Lotus Uphold the Plum Blossom Ceremony Endless Practice Amid Flames The Right View of Deep Snow Remembering My Mother Arousing the Mind amid Shifting Sands The Undeceiving Mirror Eighty-Four Thousand Teachings in One Fist The Perfect Moon of Practice

EIHEI ZENJI GOROKU - RECORDED SAYINGS AT EIHEIJI TEMPLE

The One Vehicle in Daily Activity Not Understanding Mind Only The Samādhi of Fresh Rice Plum Blossoms Do Not Know Spring Impermanence within the Timeless The Clumsiness of Body and Mind Dropped Off The Three Barriers within a Single Mudrā Realization in between Clouds and Waters The Great Profit Beyond the Marketplace The Flower Transmitted Awakening in a Cold Nest Work in the Triple World Patch-Robed Monks Arrive in Daylight A Blossoming Monk’s Staff Zhaozhou’s Tea at Vulture Peak A Hairy Turtle on Zhaozhou’s Single Staff The Nonduality of Buddha Nature Southern Buddha Nature Removing Poison Arrows in Vigorous Sitting The Meaning of the Cypress Tree The Moon Shining on All Beings and Oneself The Purity of the Present Dream Washing a Painting of Breakfast The Results of Wrong Views The Importance of Practicing with Good Friends Buddha Nature beyond Conditions Awakening Shines through All Things The Day Spring Arrived Completion of a Dharma Year The Excellence of Rice Baskets and Water Buckets The Excellent Continuity of Inhale and Exhale Returning from the Cage of Dharma The Difference between Buddhas and Ancestors Beyond Knowing and Not Knowing A Pure Autumn Moon The Endless Shoots of Zazen Making Fire with Ice Zazen Beyond Birth and Death The Dharma Expounded by Nonsentient Beings Polishing a Mirror Meeting with Teachers, Meeting with Self Accepting the Emptiness of Attainment Faith in Fresh Blossoms Fallen Flowers throughout the Seasons The Whole Reality in the Perfume of Practice The Continuous Practice of Cranes and Ducks The Brush Mightier than Rocks Serene Illumination beyond Distinctions Proper Respect for Fire The Innocence of Dropping Off Body and Mind Hear the One Vehicle The Vital Eye of Kirins and Lions Practice Beyond Letting Go and Holding Tight The Thundering Canon The Stark Peace of Mountains A Traceless Life The Way Beyond Grasping and Discarding

EIHEI ZENJI GOROKU - RECORDED SAYINGS AT EIHEIJI TEMPLE

The Snow at Midnight The Pickiness of Garuḍas Frost Added on Snow The Buddha Nature of Milk and Cheese Joining the Fulfillment of Completion Grateful Practice Buddha and the Many Forms Karmic Consciousness Opened in Radiance The Root of Ignorance A Teacher of Not Understanding The Spring within a Cold Flower The Single Black Staff of Zazen True Home-Leavers Relieve the Needy The Unfathomable Jewel of Awakening The Three Kinds of Karma When Will We Meet the Compassionate Buddha? Spring Crimson Penetrating All Minds A Song for the Cypress Tree The Fire of Life’s Passing A Green Hut in the Sunlight There Is No Zen School The Good Karma of Thundering Silence A Grandmother’s Sixty Blows Portraying Just This A Joyful Culmination of Practice Responding to the Mystery Diligent Efforts of an Intimate Tradition Practicing and Expounding in the Deep Mountains Prepare Tea and Hit the Cart The Universal Expounding Right Now Moonlight over the Pregnant Temple Pillars The Sound of the Mountains Healing with Words That Needle Clarifying Cause and Effect in the Formless Sitting through Midsummer The Black Glow of Enlightenment A Fragrant Period of Zazen The Cause and Fruits within the Complete Circle Does a Wriggling Earthworm Have Buddha Nature? Causes for a Black Staff’s Transformation Zazen within Desire and Stumbling Lovebirds for Eisai An Attractive Demon and Sickness Sudden Autumn Colors Grieving for my Late Teacher Sitting with Eyes Open in the Flames of the World The Three Periods of Karma The Dharma Body in Everyday Activity The Upright Lotus The Flowing of This Moment in the Wind Radiance of the Enduring Moon The Offering of Zazen New Impressions on Old Cushions The Reward Land of Beyond-Thinking The Single Practice Beyond Perception Green Leaves Turn Red Waters Rise and Fall Just Sitting in the Ancient Mirror A Teacher Sells His Body A Cold Crane Looks to Spring Nothing Lacking in the Triple World

ESHU EIHEI ZENJI DŌGEN OSHŌ SHŌSAN - MASTER DŌGEN’S INFORMAL TALKS AT EIHEIJI ...

The Suchness of Grasping and Letting Go Dwelling Thoroughly in the Mountains The Dynamic Relationship of Ancient and Present Nine Times Nine in the Deep Snow A Great Dōjō Our Temple Is Great Awakening A Complete Dharma Year Ninety Days of Great Peace The Meaning of the Green Pine Family Instructions for the End of the Year For the Love of Buddha’s Lively Eyes The Nectar within Forms and Rituals Returning to the Source The Solid Rock at the Gate Transmitting the Jewels of Yaoshan’s Words Renewing Laughter Clouds and Waters Meet Equally with Clouds and Waters Kind Hearts in Deep Snow Sitting Upright like Bamboo The Village Songs of Mahākāśyapa and Mañjuśrī Hōgo - Awakening in the Marketplace Traveling through the Great Way The Function of Half-Turning The Inexpressible Dharma The Active Verification of Play in Samādhi The Devoted Effort of a Work Leader Enlightenment Refreshed in Work A Golden Fish Freed from the Hook The Vital Stream of “Mind Itself Is Buddha” Healing the Whole Body Verification, Practice, and Expounding Are One and the Same Taking the Flavor of the Ancient Buddhas The Young Mind of an Ancient Buddha Good Teachers for Lay Practitioners Fukanzazengi - Universally Recommended Instructions for Zazen

DŌGEN OSHŌ JUKO - MASTER DŌGEN’S VERSES PRAISING ANCIENT KŌANS

Mahākāśyapa Smiling at Śākyamuni’s Flower The Flowering of Mind Only Bodhitāra Playfully Turning the Jewel A Welcome Snake in the Grass The Third Ancestor’s Cure A Freely Turning Dragon The Rice-Pounder’s Response The Body, Wind, and Flag Moving with the Sixth Ancestor’s Mind Caring for the Myriad Grass-Tips The Boatman’s Traceless Activity The Ox Returns Home in Evening Brightness Yunyan Sweeps the Moon Zhaozhou’s Jewels amid Poverty A Worm in the Rice The Demon on Tortoise Mountain Deep Intimacy Beyond Knowing The Moon Always Full Qingyuan Holds Up a Whisk Qingyuan’s Wind Breaking Apart Stages Yunyan Shakes a Poison Hand The Gates to Zhaozhou The Boatman’s Profound Music Xuansha’s Bloody Toe A True Dragon Appears in the Dark Loving Mountains Beyond Senses and Objects Nanquan Taming His Water Buffalo Wild Fox Powers The Boatman’s Crescent Hook Rolling Up the Curtain after Thirty Years Just Sitting As Mount Lu Walks One Saying from Birth to Old Age Overcoming Resistance and Accepting Nourishment Shooting Stars Beyond Speaking or Not Speaking Guiding the Person with Three Disabilities Partridges Singing Beyond Earshot The Meaning Seen in Long and Short Entrusting the True Human Body Polishing a Mirror No Buddha Nature Yangshan’s All at Once One Bright Pearl The Self Returns to Mountains and Rivers A White Cloud Flies Straight Ahead How to Transmit the Warmth The Stump of Zhaozhou’s Cypress Tree Fundamental Purity in Time and Season Mistake after Mistake Beyond Duality Portrait of a Quiet Plum Blossom Coming and Going in Suchness Hearing When Not Speaking Huangbo’s Grandmotherly Mind Hearing Spring with Dharma Eyes Fully Grasping Space The Distance between Ancients and Now Dragons in Everyday Life Cool Moonlight in the Hells The Music of Everyday Tea and Rice The Windbell’s Ding-Dong-a-Ling Refined Gold Thus Come Pointing the Way Upstream Yaoshan’s Backache A Song of an Empty Mind Extraordinary Nanquan Seen by the Earth Spirits A Deaf Person Speaks Two Pieces of Buddha Nature One Seedling, High and Low Which Is Not a Good Piece? Buddha with Nothing Remaining Guishan Evades a Name Reentry after Leaping Free A Ladle’s Long Handle and a Stringless Lute Peach Blossom Beyond Doubt The Whole Body of a Dog Peace within Hot and Cold The Cool Wind of Buddha The Cat Cut through Silence A Fox Awakened to Causality Too Tired to Understand Facing the Wall Is My Teacher The Play of Sun and Moon Nanquan’s Sickle Still Works Well Mazu’s Shout Poisoned with Kindness All Going Together Springtime for a Buddha Just Sitting Takes Wing Playing with Dropped Off Body and Mind An Urgent Question on Top of a Cliff The Punishment for Losing Money in the River Nothing to Pacify A Horse within a Begging Bowl

DŌGEN OSHŌ SHINSAN, JISAN, AND GEJU - MASTER DŌGEN’S VERSES OF PRAISE ON ...

Verses of Praise on Portraits [Dōgen’s] Verses of Praise on Portraits of Himself Assorted Verses

CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF DHARMA HALL DISCOURSES WITH DATES INDEX AND GLOSSARY OF NAMES PINYIN NAMES WITH JAPANESE TRANSLITERATIONS AND KANJI INDEX OF TRANSLATORS’ NAMES OF DHARMA HALL DISCOURSES GENERAL INDEX SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS ABOUT WISDOM Copyright Page

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