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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword by Bernie Glassman
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Case 1: The World-Honored One Ascends the Platform
Case 2: Bodhidharma’s Vast Emptiness
Case 3: An Invitation for the Patriarch
Case 4: The World-Honored One Points to the Earth
Case 5: Seigan’s Cost of Rice
Case 6: Baso’s White and Black
Case 7: Yakusan Takes the High Seat
Case 8: Hyakujo’s Fox
Case 9: Nansen Cuts a Cat
Case 10: Joshu Sees Through the Old Woman
Case 11: Ummon’s Two Sicknesses
Case 12: Jizo Plants the Field
Case 13: Rinzai’s Blind Donkey
Case 14: Attendant Kaku Serves Tea
Case 15: Kyozan Plants His Mattock
Case 16: Mayoku Thumps His Staff
Case 17: Hogen’s Hair’s-Breadth
Case 18: Joshu’s Dog
Case 19: Ummon’s Mount Sumeru
Case 20: Jizo’s “Not Knowing Is the Most Intimate”
Case 21: Ungan Sweeps the Ground
Case 22: Ganto’s Bow and Shout
Case 23: Roso Faces the Wall
Case 24: Seppo’s Poison Snake
Case 25: Enkan’s Rhinoceros-Horn Fan
Case 26: Kyozan Points to Snow
Case 27: Hogen Points to the Blind
Case 28: Gokoku’s Three Shames
Case 29: Fuketsu’s Iron Ox
Case 30: Daizui’s Kalpa Fire
Case 31: Ummon’s Free-Standing Pillar
Case 32: Kyozan’s State of Mind
Case 33: Sansho’s Golden Carp
Case 34: Fuketsu’s Speck of Dust
Case 35: Rakuho’s Acquiescence
Case 36: Baso’s Illness
Case 37: Isan’s Karmic Consciousness
Case 38: Rinzai’s True Man
Case 39: Joshu’s Bowl-Washing
Case 40: Ummon’s White and Black
Case 41: Rakuho’s Last Moments
Case 42: Nanyo’s Washbasin
Case 43: Razan’s Arising and Vanishing
Case 44: Koyo’s Garuda Bird
Case 45: The Sutra of Complete Awakening
Case 46: Tokusan’s Completion of Study
Case 47: Joshu’s Cypress Tree
Case 48: Vimalakirti’s Nonduality
Case 49: Tozan Offers to the Essence
Case 50: Seppo’s “What’s This?”
Case 51: Hogen’s “By Boat or Land”
Case 52: Sozan’s Dharmakaya
Case 53: Obaku’s Dregs
Case 54: Ungan’s Great Compassionate One
Case 55: Seppo the Rice Cook
Case 56: Mishi’s White Rabbit
Case 57: Genyo’s One Thing
Case 58: The Diamond Sutra’s Reviling
Case 59: Seirin’s Deadly Snake
Case 60: Ryutetsuma’s Old Cow
Case 61: Kempo’s One Stroke
Case 62: Beiko’s No Enlightenment
Case 63: Joshu Asks About Death
Case 64: Shisho’s Transmission
Case 65: Shuzan’s New Bride
Case 66: Kyuho’s Head and Tail
Case 67: The Avatamsaka Sutra’s Wisdom
Case 68: Kassan’s Slashing Sword
Case 69: Nansen’s Cats and Cows
Case 70: Shinzan Questions the Nature of Life
Case 71: Suigan’s Eyebrows
Case 72: Chuyu’s Monkey
Case 73: Sozan’s Requited Filial Piety
Case 74: Hogen’s Substance and Name
Case 75: Zuigan’s Permanent Principle
Case 76: Shuzan’s Three Phrases
Case 77: Kyozan Holds His Own
Case 78: Ummon’s Farm Rice-Cake
Case 79: Chosha Advances a Step
Case 80: Ryuge Passes the Chin Rest
Case 81: Gensha Comes to the Province
Case 82: Ummon’s Sounds and Shapes
Case 83: Dogo’s Nursing
Case 84: Gutei’s One Finger
Case 85: The National Teacher’s Seamless Tomb
Case 86: Rinzai’s Great Enlightenment
Case 87: Sozan’s With or Without
Case 88: The Shurangama’s Unseen
Case 89: Tozan’s No Grass
Case 90: Kyozan Respectfully Declares It
Case 91: Nansen’s Peony
Case 92: Ummon’s One Treasure
Case 93: Roso’s Not Understanding
Case 94: Tozan’s Illness
Case 95: Rinzai’s One Stroke
Case 96: Kyuho’s Disapproval
Case 97: Emperor Ko’s Cap
Case 98: Tozan’s Heed
Case 99: Ummon’s Bowl and Pail
Case 100: Roya’s Mountains and Rivers
Appendix: Masters Referenced in The Book of Equanimity
I. Ancient Chinese and Japanese Ancestors
II. Indian Ancestors and Bodhisattvas
III. Modern Ancestors and Teachers
Suggested Further Reading
About Wisdom
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