One Bird, One Stone by Murphy, Sean -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Praise for One Bird, One Stone Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART ONE: ORIGINAL FACE: EARLY ENCOUNTERS

BEGINNINGS: THE IRON BULL CHAPTER ONE: THE LAND OF THE WHITE BARBARIANS

The Most Beautiful Vow (1) The True Meaning of Cleanliness (2) Carve Me a Buddha (3) Long Time Dead (4) I Am from Missouri (5)

CHAPTER TWO: THE MYSTERY OF THE BAMBOO: EARLY STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

First Lesson (6) You Spit, I Bow (7) It's Not What You Say . . . (8) The Point of Zen (9) Ready or Not . . . (10) What Is Serious? (11) What Is “Spiritual”? (12) Worthwhile to Help (13) Just Like Riding a Bicycle (14) A True Person of Zen (15) More Things in Heaven and Earth . . . (16) The Next Best Thing (17)

CHAPTER THREE: NEW MIND AND EYEBALL KICKS: THE ZEN BOOM OF THE FIFTIES

Supreme Spiritual Ideal? (18) Who's in Charge Here? (19) Know Your Own Mind (20) Change We Must (21) Beyond Words (22) The Sleep of Babes (23)

PART TWO: THE NEW BODHIDHARMAS

JUST IN TIME CHAPTER FOUR: THE GREAT MIGRATION

Absolute Freedom? (24) Not Two (25) Every Day Is Important (26) Follow the Yes (27) Better Not to Ask (28) What Is It Like? (29) Never Mind That (30) We're Responsible (31) A Matter of Life and Death (32) Does a Dog Have Buddha Nature? (33) Nobody Home (34) Shaking Hands with Essence (35) Wonderful Costumes (36) Not Taking Sides (37) Don't Just Do Something . . . (38) The True Secret of Mindfulness (39) Touching the Present Moment (40) Already a Corpse (41) No More Reading (42) An Old, Old, Thing (43) But Why? (44) Very Good Demonstration (45)

CHAPTER FIVE: ANYWAY, DO ZAZEN: THE WIDENING CIRCLE

Changing the World (46) No Thought Required (47) New Tricks? (48) Form Is Emptiness (49) No Matter Where You Go, There You Are (50) Yeah, So What Good Is It? (51) An Unpaid Debt (52) Gathering No Moss (53) Who's the Boss? (54) A Little Advice (55) Hitting Bottom (56) Making Firewood (57) What Next? (58) Every Little Bit Counts (59) Close, but No Cigar (60) Berry Pie (61) Throwing Away the Key (62) The True Reason (63)

CHAPTER SIX: THE TURNING WHEEL

A Case of Unmistakable Identity (64) Neither Hard nor Easy (65) What Does Zen Say? (66) This Side Up? (67) Now We Can Eat Together (68) Now the Real Work Begins (69) Mountain Seat (70) Flown the Coop? (71) Only Breath, Breathing (72) Tea for Four (73)

PART THREE: TRANSMISSION COMPLETE

HOW LONG IS A KALPA?

Eyes That See in the Dark (74) Don't Hurt the Bird (75) Light and Shadow (76)

CHAPTER SEVEN: TAKING ROOT

True Intimacy (77) Taking Care of Each Other (78) Identity, or Responsibility? (79) Sacred Vessels (80) Transformation (81) Performing Magic (82) A Turning of the Heart (83) How Original Can You Get? (84) Making Contact (85)

CHAPTER EIGHT: SETTLING IN: POINTS OF PRACTICE

Press “C” (86) Gesture Reciprocated (87) Expressing Enlightenment (88) Hitting the 900-Year-Old Bell (89) Sometimes It's Better Not to Know (90) Nothing but the Truth (91) Full of Everything (92) Absolutely Not (93) Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls . . . (94) Just as It Is (95) The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel (96) I'm OK—How About You? (97) Problem or Challenge? (98) Nowhere to Go (99) Trading Places (100) Universal Sound (101) How You Play the Game . . . (102) Die Now (103)

CHAPTER NINE: THE FARTHER SHORE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN AMERICAN ZEN

Living in the Now (104) Zen and the Art of Art: Natalie Goldberg's Wild Mind School of Writing Practice The Way to Mental Health (105) Teacher or Friend? (106) The Same Chord, in Harmony (107) Nothing to Give (108)

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