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Index
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Editors' Preface
Essay
Introduction
365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life
1. Sok Sahn's "Seven Go Straights"
2. The Correct Way, Truth and Correct Life
3. Moving Mountain? Moving Boat?
4. Why Do You Have Two Eyes?
5. How Many Hairs Do You Have on Your Head?
6. This World Is Complete Stillness
7. Sumi Mountain
8. Shoot Two Geese
9. Past Mind, Present Mind, Future Mind Cannot Get Enlightenment
10. The Old Woman Burns the Hermitage
11. Why Do You Have Five Fingers?
12. How Do You Get Out of the Net?
13. No Hindrance
14. Where Does the Bell Sound Come From?
15. Bring This Sound Here
16. How Many Steps Did You Take to Get Here?
17. How Do You Clean Your Mind?
18. Great Teacher Bu Dae Sa Expounds the Diamond Sutra
19. How Do You Clean Dust?
20. Don't Attach to Anything
21. See True Buddha
22. This Stillness Is Bliss
23. Is Your Body Form or Emptiness?
24. What Is Insight?
25. Nirvana and Annutara Samyak Sambodhi
26. All Things Are Created by Mind Alone
27. The Stone Man Is Crying
28. Three Statements
29. Not Depending on Anything
30. What Do You Need?
31. Three Occasions of the Buddha's Transmission to Mahakashyapa
32. Pointing Directly to Mind
33. See True Nature, Become Buddha
34. Great Enlightenment
35. The Three Essential Elements of Zen
36. Energy in Zen
37. The Zen Circle
38. Five Schools
39. What Is Buddha-Nature?
40. The Human Route
41. Just Seeing Is Buddha-Nature
42. Where Are You Going?
43. Zen Master To Sol's Three Gates
44. Freedom front Life and Death
45. Quiet Night, the Geese Cry
46. Zen Master Ko Bong's Three Gates
47. Just Like This Is Buddha
48. Where Are the Buddha and the Eminent Teachers?
49. Why Are You Saying These Bad Things About Me?
50. Ko Bong's Enlightenment
51. My Cow Is Not This Small My Cow Is Bigger
52. Big Bell Ceremony
53. Straight Line in the Circle
54. Before the Donkey Has Left, the Horse Has Already Arrived
55. Sword Mountain
56. Give Me a Don't-Know Sentence
57.Zen Teachings and Sutra Teachings
58. True Nature Does Not Exist
59. Speech, Silence, Moving, Quiet
60. The True Meaning of the Cypress Tree in the Garden
61. Ten Sicknesses
62. The Burning Fire
63. All As Nothingness
64. Pure Emptiness
65. The Deepest Well
66. God Inside God
67. Empty Becoming
68. No True One Is Elated
69. Jesus Christ
70. Without a Single Law
71. The Nightingale and the Cuckoo
72. Inside, Outside
73. Christ's Birth and Death
74. The Rose Blooms
75. The Nature of All Things
76. Achievements Perish
77. No Fear of Death
78. Always in Paradise
79. The Deepest Prayer
80. At the Soul's Center
81. Redemption
82. Old Clothes
83. The Meaning of Am Du's Whispering *
84. Whose Song Do You Sing?
85. Money to Spend
86. What Is Your True Speech?
87. When One Is Picked Up, Seven Are Gotten
88. First Word
89. Last Word
90. Tathagata Zen
91. Going-Up Sentence
92. Coming-Down Sentence
93. Changing-Body Sentence
94. How Do You Catch the Sound of a Cicada?
95. Tail of a Golden Fish
96. Right in Front of You
97. Tea Cup
98. Crying in Front of the Gate
99. Throwing Rocks
100. Ko Bong's Master
101. An Old Loan
102. The Great Way Has No Gate
103. Joju's Cypress Tree in the Garden
104. The Meaning of Joju's "Mu"
105. The Meaning of Dry Shit on a Stick
106. The Meaning of Three Pounds of Flax
107. Realm of Enlightenment
108. What Is Your Everyday Life?
109. Face of Fire in the Rocks
110. Face of Rocks in the Fire
111. Hyang Gok's "Bodhidharma's Coming to China"
112. Where All Buddhas Appear
113. What Is Meditation?
114. Great Liberation
115. The Samadhi of Great Stillness
116. Clear Original Body
117. Pomegranate Feast
118. Stone Kwan Seum Bosal
119. In the Sound of the Bell, Attain Enlightenment
120. The Great Work of Life and Death
121. Best Killer
122. Big Temple
123. Departure Poem
124. Let's Drink Tea
125. Does an Enlightened Person Have Life and Death?
126. Wei Sahn's Cow
127. Stone Buddha
128. The Buddha's Breast
129. Why Do You Cover Your Eyes?
130. Hae Cho Asks About Buddha
131. Why Bodhidharma Came to China
132. Dragon's Nostrils
133. Everything Has Already Become Buddha
134. Candlelight
135. Why Do You Bring Me Tea?
136. Your Temple Buddha Is White
137. Mahakashyapa's Flag
138. The Complete Stillness Jewel Palace
139. The Buddha Saw a Star
140. Cannot Get Out
141. Rat New Year
142. Heaven and Earth Are Separate
143. Understand Your Job
144. Space Also Becomes Old
145. Happy New Year
146. Hold Up One Finger
147. Peop Ki Bosa'ls Grass
148. Hak Myong's Five Questions
149. Three Zen Masters'"KATZ!"
150. Mind Light
151. The Tree with No Shadow
152. Zen Master Man Gong's Poem for His Teacher, Zen Master Kyong Ho*
153. Zen Master Man Gongos Enlightenment Poem
154. Zen Master Man Gong's Portrait Poem
155. Poem at Blue Ocean
156. Poem for a Student, Hae II
157. Poem for White Cloud
158. Poem for Pal Gong Sah Temple
159. Poem for Buddha's Enlightenment Day
160. Poem for Kan Wol Do Island
161. Poem for Buddha's Birthday
162. Vairocana Peak*
163. Poem for Tae Hwa Sahn Mountain
164. Another Poem for Tae Hwa Sahn Mountain
165. Kyol Che Poem
166. Poem for a Student, Bo Wol
167. Poem for Zen Master Un An*
168. Poem for a Bamboo Fan
169. Prajna Ship
170. Three Thousand KATZes
171. Bo Dok Cave
172. Four Seasons
173. Enlightenment Day Poem
174. Transmission Poem for Ko Bong*
175. Zen Master Seung Sahn's Enlightenment Poem
176. Zen Master Seung Sahn9s Poem for Children
177. Original Face
178. Hae Jae Poem, Shin Won Sah Temple, 1989
179. No Distinction
180. Enlightenment Poem
181. North Mountain, South Mountain
182. Mind Moonlight
183. The Ten Thousand Samadhis Are Not Necessary
184. Peach Flowers Turn Pink
185. Zen Master So Sahn's Enlightenment Poem
186. Moon and Wind
187. No White, No Blue
188. The Ship with No Bottom
189. Plum Flowers Fly in the Snow
190. Old Monk's Stick
191. Good Time
192. This World Is Complicated
193. Laughing Sounds
194. The Clear, Mystic Thing
195. Attaining Don't-Know Is Your True Nature
196. 25 O'clock
197. "KAN!"
198. "MYUNG! MYUNG!"
199. Zen Master Hahn Ant's KATZ and Hit
200. Cloud Appears Over South Mountain
201. You Don't Know. How Can I Teach You?
202. Hyo Bong's Enlightenment
203. A Gate
204. Bodhidharma's Family Tradition
205. Where Is the True Master?
206. Deceiving All Buddhas and Eminent Teachers
207. Live Words and Dead Words
208. Appearing and Disappearing
209. Zen Master Hyo Bong's Three Gates
210. Ten Mu Sicknesses
211. Lion's Den
212. The Sky Is High, the Ground Is Thick
213. Dharma Transmission
214. What Is One Thing?
215. Dong Sahn's Zen Stick
216. Dragon Tracks
217. "GAM" and "EEE"
218. The Stone Lion's Roar
219. Moon Guest
220. If You Want to Meet the Buddha
221. Dharma Without Eyes, Ears or Mouth
222. Oriole and Stork
223. No Nostrils
224. Hanging On a Vine
225. Half a Mu
226. Originally Nothing
227. First Word
228. Hair Grows on Wide Teeth
229. Thorny Jungle Everywhere
230. True Emptiness
231. Ma Jo's Circle
232. Ko Bong's No Hindrance Person
233. Mistake
234. Where Is Your Hometown?
235. One Pure and Clear Thing
236. What Is Bodhi?
237. No Mind, No Dharma
238. Name and Tao
239. Done and Undone
240. Doing Anything
241. Lose Everything
242. The Tao Is Like a Well
243. Before Tao and Master
244. The Great Mother
245. Present for All Beings
246. The Tao Is Like Water
247. Path to Serenity
248. The Supreme Virtue
249. Open as the Sky
250. Love and World
251. The Essence of Wisdom
252. Where Is Serenity?
253. His Work Is Done
254. Forget the Tao
255. Throw It Away
256. This Is True
257. Truly Yourself
258. Open Yourself
259. Your Job
260. The Four Great Powers
261. Great Secret
262. The Center of the Circle
263. Centered in the Tao
264. Make Everything
265. Free of Desire
266. When the Tao Is Lost
267. In Harmony with the Tao
268. The Being of Non-Being
269. Foolish Man
270. Where Was the Tao Born?
271. The Tao Speaks for Itself
272. No Mind of Her Own
273. Where Does He Go?
274. True Knowledge
275. Good Man and Bad Man
276. True Nature
277. Avoid Being Clever or Rich
278. Always at Ease
279. True Words
280. Joju's Dog
281. Pai Chang's Fox
282. Guji Raises a Finger
283. Bodhidharma Has No Beard
284. Hyang Eom's "Up a Tree"
285. Shakyamuni Buddha Holds Up a Flower
286. Joju's Washing the Bowls
287. Gye Chung Made a Cart
288. Dae Tongji Sung
289. Cheong Sae Is Poor
290. Joju's Hermits
291. Song Am Eon Calls Master
292. Dok Sahn Carrying His Bowls
293. Nam Cheon Kills a Cat
294. Dong Sahn's Sixty Blows
295. Bell Sound and Seven-fold Robe
296. The National Teacher Calls Three Times
297. Dong Sahnas Three Pounds of Flax
298. Everyday Mind Is the True Way
299. A Man of Great Strength
300. Un Mun's Shit-Stick
301. Mahakashyapa's Flagpole
302. Don't Think Good and Bad
303. Discard Speech and Words
304. Dharma Speech of the Third Seat
305. Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds
306. Is Not Mind, Is Not Buddha
307. Well-Known Yong Dam
308. Not Wind, Not Flag
309. Mind Is Buddha
310. No Mind, No Buddha
311. Joju Sees Through the Old Woman
312. An Outer Path Question to the Buddha
313. Cognition Is Not the Path
314. Chong Nyo's Soul Leaves
315. Meeting a Master on the Road
316. The Cypress Tree in the Front Garden
317. A Water Buffalo Passes Through a Window
318. Un Mun's Trip on a Word
319. Kicking Over the Urine Bottle
320. Bodhidharma's Rest Mind
321. A Woman Comes Out of Samadhi
322. Su Sahn's Chukpi
323. Pa Cho's Zen Stick
324. Who Is This?
325. Bodhidharma's "No Holiness Is Clear Like Space"
326. Master Ma Jo Is Unwell
327. Un Mun's "Every Day Is a Good Day"
328. Ministry President Ch 'en Sees Tzu Fu
329. Chi Am's Eyebrows
330. Joju's Four Gates
331. Muk Ju's Imposter
332. Pa Nung's Snow in a Silver Bowl
333. Gyeong Cheong's Man in the Weeds
334. Baek Jang's "Sitting Alone on Ta Hsiung Peak"
335. Un Mun's "Body Exposed in the Golden Wind"
336. Joju's Big Radishes
337. Lin Chi's "Buddhism's Great Meaning"
338. Manjushri's "Before Three, Three"
339. Un Mun's Golden-Haired Lion
340. Nam Cheon's Flowering Tree
341. Joju's "Man of Great Death"
342. Dong Sahn's "No Cold or Hot"
343. Ko Sahn's "Knowing How to Hit the Drum "
344. Joju's "Stone Bridge, Log Bridge"
345. Un Mutt's Staff
346. Nam Cheon's Circle
347; Geum U's "Ha Ha Ha Ha!" Great Laughing
348. Un Mun's Cake
349. Tu Ju's "All Buddha Sounds"
350. Joju's "Newborn Baby"
351. Dae Ryong's "Indestructible Dharma-Body"
352. The Hermit of Tung Feng Roars Like a Tiger
353. Un Mun's "Kitchen Pantry and Triple Gate"
354. Ji Mun's "Body of Prajna" *
355. Joju's "Three Turning Words"
356. Seung Sahn's Four Kinds of "Like This"
357. SeungSahn's "Subject Just-Like-This, Object Just-Like-This"
358. The Sixth Patriarch's Poem
359. The Sixth Patriarch's Head
360. Seung Sahn's "True Buddha"
361. Where Is Bodhidharma?
362. Seung Sahn's "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha"
363. Ko Bong's "Mouse Eats Cat Food"
364. Seung Sahn's "Three Men Walking"
365. Seung Sahn's "The 10,000 Dharmas Return to the One"
Footnotes
The Story of Seung Sahn Soen-sa
Zen Teaching, Kong-an Practice
Index
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