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Index
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
Introduction by John Daido Loori
Prologue: Dropping Off Body and Mind
Eihei Dōgen’s Preface
1. Qingyuan’s Whisk
2. Baizhang Remains Seated
3. Nanquan’s “Water Buffalo”
4. Mazu’s “Heart Sūtra”
5. Layman Pangyun’s Awakening
6. Master Langye’s “Original Purity”
7. Yangshan’s “It’s Not That There Is No Enlightenment”
8. Nanyue Polishes a Brick
9. Minister Peixiu Sees a Portrait
10. Qingyuan’s “Come Closer”
11. Zhaozhou’s “Losing the Mind in Confusion”
12. Dongshan’s “Going Beyond Buddha”
13. Touzi’s Moon
14. Yangshan’s “Dharma Positions”
15. Xuansha’s “One Bright Pearl”
16. Changsha’s “Returning to Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth”
17. Xiangyan’s Great Enlightenment
18. Nanquan and the Land Deity
19. “Ordinary Mind Is the Way”
20. Changsha’s “Stop Illusory Thinking”
21. Panshan’s “Cut a Fine Piece”
22. Puhua’s Bell Song
23. Yangshan’s “High and Low”
24. Dasui’s “Great Kalpa Fire”
25. The Master’s Portrait
26. The National Teacher’s “Pure Dharma Body”
27. Linji’s Enlightenment
28. “Dragon Howling in a Withered Tree”
29. Daowu Won’t Say
30. Caoshan’s “No Change”
31. Deshan’s Thirty Blows
32. Taiyuan Fans Himself
33. Caoshan’s “Falling and Rising”
34. The World-Honored One’s “Intimate Speech”
35. Touzi’s “Harmonizing the Ten Bodies”
36. Deshan’s “Assembly on Vulture Peak”
37. Yuezhou’s “Path to Nirvāṇa”
38. Xuefeng’s “Turning the Dharma Wheel”
39. Jingqing’s “Buddhadharma at the New Year”
40. Sansheng’s Blindness
41. Shitou’s “Ask the Pillar”
42. Jingqing’s Thirty Blows
43. Guizong Cuts a Snake
44. Guishan’s “I Have Already Exhausted Myself for You”
45. Xuansha’s “The Three Vehicles and the Twelve Divisions of Sūtras”
46. Zhaozhou’s Four Gates
47. Guishan’s “Do Not Betray Others”
48. Xuansha’s Blank Letter
49. Dongshan’s “Top of the Mountain”
50. Shilou’s Shortcomings
51. Niutou and the Fourth Ancestor
52. Sansheng’s “Golden Fish”
53. Shitou’s “Great and Small Canon”
54. Baizhang’s Second Visit to Mazu
55. Dongshan’s “Dharma Bodies”
56. Guishan’s Gift
57. Where Wisdom Cannot Reach
58. Shishuang’s “Nothing Is Concealed”
59. Huineng Doesn’t Understand
60. Xuansha’s “Seamless Stūpa”
61. Guishan’s “Exploring Spiritual Powers”
62. Dongshan’s “Disclosing Mind, Disclosing Nature”
63. Baofu’s “Point of Attainment”
64. Nanquan’s “Content and Container”
65. Guizong’s “One-Flavor Zen”
66. Yaoshan’s “Birth of a Calf”
67. Zhaozhou’s “Wash Your Bowls”
68. Yangshan Plants His Hoe
69. Families Use It Daily
70. Caoshan’s “Raising Livestock”
71. Cuiwei’s “Meaning”
72. Dongshan’s “Not-Buddha”
73. Mimoyan’s Pitchfork
74. Zhaozhou Rotates the Canon
75. Yantou’s “Sit Still”
76. “No-Mind Is the Way”
77. Disclosing Is Not as Good as Practice
78. Dongshan’s “Where Is the Fault?”
79. Yaoshan’s Discourse
80. Zhaozhou’s Buddha
81. Yunmen’s “Everyone’s Light”
82. Dongshan’s “No Grass”
83. Yunyan Sweeps the Ground
84. Yunyan’s “Not a Single Word”
85. Shishuang’s “A Single Hair Pierces Innumerable Holes”
86. Yaoshan’s “This Buddha, That Buddha”
87. Nanquan’s “Nothing Special”
88. Lingzhao’s “Bright and Clear”
89. Shishuang’s “This Side and That Side”
90. Jiashan Sees the Ferryman
91. Huangbo’s Single Staff
92. Teaching and Not Teaching
93. Dongshan’s “Each Stitch”
94. Yunju’s “Place That Cannot Be Contained”
95. Buddha’s “Teachings of a Lifetime”
96. Puhua Knocks Over a Table
97. Shushan and the Stone Workers
98. Dongshan’s Illness
99. Layman Pangyun’s Stringless Lute
100. Yunmen’s “Dharma Body”
101. Nanyue’s “It’s Not Like Something”
102. Baizhang and the Fox
103. Yangshan’s Succession
104. Deshan’s Enlightenment
105. The Hands and Eyes of Great Compassion
106. Tianhuang’s “Essential Dharma Gate”
107. Yunmen’s “Two Types of Sickness”
108. Mazu’s “Meaning of the Ancestor’s Coming from India”
109. Xuefeng’s “Size of the World”
110. Guishan Tests His Students
111. Fayan’s “Eye of the Way”
112. The Three Worlds Are Mind
113. Baofu’s Blocking of the Eyes, Ears, and Mind
114. Zhaozhou’s Dog
115. Dagui’s “No Buddha Nature”
116. Nanyue’s “Mirror Cast as a Buddha Image”
117. Jinhua’s Ancient Mirror
118. Yangshan Can’t Say It
119. Zhaozhou’s Cypress Tree
120. Priest Jin Asks about the Nature of Life
121. Mayu Locks the Gate
122. Fayan’s Fire God
123. Mayu’s “Nature of the Wind”
124. Monastic Shen’s Fish and Net
125. Caoshan’s Dharmakāya
126. Dadian Remains Silent
127. Mañjuśrī’s “Three Three”
128. Baizhang’s “Gate of Essential Nature”
129. Yaoshan’s “Nonthinking”
130. Yangshan’s Karmic Consciousness
131. Anguo’s “The Master’s Flesh Is Still Warm”
132. Boshui’s “Sound Itself Is No Sound”
133. The Woman of Daishan
134. Guishan’s “Is It the Weather or the Person That Is Cold?”
135. Zhaozhou’s Brick and Jewel
136. Zhaozhou Asks about the Great Death
137. Xuefeng’s “Not a Snowflake Remains”
138. Zhaozhou’s “Brightness and Darkness”
139. Yangshan’s “Entering Nirvāṇa”
140. Dayi’s “No Mind”
141. The World-Honored One Ascends the Teaching Seat
142. Yangshan’s Discourse
143. Touzi’s Clarification of the Ancestors’ Intention
144. Xuansha’s “Twenty Blows of the Stick”
145. Deshan’s “Neither Asking nor Not Asking”
146. The Sixth Ancestor’s “Your Mind Is Moving”
147. Linji’s “True Person of No Rank”
148. Dongshan’s “Teachings of the Insentient”
149. Xuefeng’s Rice Field
150. Mazu’s “Raising the Eyebrows and Blinking the Eyes”
151. Yaoshan’s “Precious Treasure of the Way”
152. The National Teacher’s Stone Lion
153. Layman Pangyun’s “Power-Attaining Phrase”
154. Nanquan’s Sickle
155. Lingyun’s Peach Blossoms
156. Changqing’s Clarification of Understanding
157. Guishan Laughs Twice
158. Yunmen’s “Each and Every Particle Samādhi”
159. Nanyang’s Ten Bodies
160. Prince Nalakuvara’s Original Body
161. The Mill Worker’s Staff
162. Yunmen’s “One Hundred Grasses”
163. Xuansha Builds a Seamless Monument
164. Linji’s “Host and Guest”
165. The World-Honored One Did Not Speak a Word
166. Yunmen’s “Where Are They?”
167. Linji’s “Blind Ass”
168. Yangshan’s “Inconceivable, Clear, Bright Mind”
169. Mahākāśyapa and the Flagpole
170. An Outsider Questions the Buddha
171. Fayan’s “Not Knowing”
172. Dongshan’s “Three Pounds of Flax”
173. The Emperor and the Buddha’s Relics
174. Buddha’s Begging Bowl
175. Jianyuan’s “Matter before the Seven Buddhas”
176. Xuefeng’s “Thirst and Starvation”
177. Fayan’s “Single Body Revealed”
178. Linji Sees Huangbo Reading a Sūtra
179. Shishuang’s “When All the Doors Are Closed”
180. Yantou’s “Original Permanence”
181. Nanquan Kills a Cat
182. Baizhang’s Wild Geese
183. Xuefeng Checks Out the Hermit
184. Yunyan’s Lion
185. Nanquan’s “Storehouse of the Mani Jewel”
186. Heshan Beats the Drum
187. Jinfeng’s Rice Cake
188. Guizong Holds Up a Fist
189. Qingxi’s “When a Thief Breaks In”
190. Mazu’s “Meaning of the Ancestor’s Coming”
191. Shitou’s “Not Attaining, Not Knowing”
192. Changqing’s “Seeing Form, Seeing Mind”
193. Shishuang’s “Transcendent Wisdom That Meets the Eye”
194. Caoshan’s “Myriad Things”
195. Zhaozhou’s “Dao”
196. Longya’s “Thief in an Empty Room”
197. Master Deng’s “Voice like Thunder”
198. Dongshan and Shenshan Cross the River
199. Dongshan’s Essential Path
200. Ruiyan’s “What Kind of Moment Is Now?”
201. Bodhidharma’s “Skin, Flesh, Bones, and Marrow”
202. “No Zen Masters”
203. Xuansha’s “Person of Three Disabilities”
204. Qinglin’s “Dead Snake on the Path”
205. Longya Passes the Meditation Brace
206. The Essential Matter
207. Linji’s “Not Studying Sūtras, Not Studying Zen”
208. Yunmen’s “End of the Ninety-Day Training Period”
209. Guishan’s Water Buffalo
210. The National Teacher’s “Original Body of Vairocana”
211. Caoshan’s “Love between Parent and Child”
212. Dizang Plants the Fields
213. The Bodhisattva of No Miraculous Power
214. Fengxue’s “Particle of Dust”
215. Tiantong’s Precise Instruction
216. Linji’s “Have You Sold It All?”
217. Linji’s “One Blow”
218. “Turtle Mountain Attains the Way”
219. Guishan Brings a Mirror
220. Dongshan’s Great Matter
221. Jiufeng’s “One Who Transmits Words”
222. Longshan’s Clay Oxen
223. Nanyue Examines Mazu
224. The National Teacher’s Dharma Realms
225. Dongshan’s “Cold and Heat”
226. Zaoshu’s Dharma Path
227. Priest Xixian’s “I Am Watching”
228. Yunyan’s “This Is It”
229. Dizang’s Broom
230. Hearing the Sound of the Wooden Fish
231. Yunmen’s Entryway
232. The Truth of Words and Actions
233. Zhaozhou’s Cup of Tea
234. Changsha Remains Silent
235. Thirteenth Daughter’s Dharma
236. Shaozhou’s Reality
237. Qingyuan’s Sacred Truths
238. Zhimen’s Strength
239. Zhaozhou’s Raft
240. Jinfeng’s “The Way of Going Beyond”
241. Xuansha Hears the Sound of a Swallow
242. Daoist Wu’s Painting
243. Xiangyan’s Person up a Tree
244. Mayu’s True Eye
245. Juzhi Holds Up One Finger
246. Yangshan Chanting the Sūtras
247. Ruiyan Calls “Master!”
248. Shigong’s Emptiness
249. Nanquan’s “Dharma That Has Never Been Spoken”
250. Caoshan’s Eyebrows and Eyes
251. Daowu’s Place of No Birth and No Death
252. Fayan’s “You Are Huichao”
253. Śākyamuni’s Flower
254. Fayan’s “Nonabiding Origin”
255. Linji Holds Up His Fly Whisk
256. Changsha’s “Original Person”
257. Yunmen’s “Hearing Sounds and Realizing Enlightenment”
258. Nanquan Banishes the Bodhisattvas
259. Bajiao’s Question and Answer
260. Suffering Cannot Reach It
261. Yunmen Composes a Verse
262. Caoshan’s Bell Sound
263. Layman Wang Holds Up His Brush
264. Baoying’s Barrier
265. Shuilao’s Enlightenment
266. Guishan’s “Why Have You Come Here?”
267. Baizhang’s “No Means of Livelihood”
268. Baizhang’s “Fundamental Principles of the Great Matter”
269. Shoushan’s Stick
270. Changsha’s Liturgy
271. Huangbo’s Sacred Labor
272. Jinfeng’s “Frost on Top of Snow”
273. Yantou’s Two Disapprovals
274. Jinfeng Holds Up a Pillow
275. Guishan’s “You Have to Find Out for Yourself”
276. Dongshan’s “Deep or Shallow”
277. Zhaozhou’s “Carry It with You”
278. Mazu’s “Mind Is Buddha”
279. Guishan’s “Great Capacity, Great Function”
280. Yunmen’s Sixty Blows
281. Zhaozhou Sees Through Two Hermits
282. Xuansha Draws a Circle
283. Xuefeng’s “Ancient Valley Stream”
284. Tianping’s Three Wrongs
285. Shushan’s “Nature of the Dharma Body”
286. Jingqing’s “Sound of Rain”
287. The Fire Dharma of Xuefeng and Xuansha
288. Zhaozhou’s “Indestructible Nature”
289. Daowu’s “Alive or Dead”
290. Xuefeng’s Meeting
291. Zhaozhou’s “Eye That Grasps the Universe”
292. Jiashan’s “There Is Nothing in Front of You”
293. Nanquan’s “Badgers and White Oxen”
294. Xuefeng’s “Mirror-Backed Monkeys”
295. Yunmen’s Treasure
296. Fayan’s “Sound and Form”
297. Longya’s Stone Tortoise
298. Baofu’s “The Tathāgata’s Expression”
299. Wuxie Turns His Head
300. Linji’s “Ordinary or Sacred”
Appendix A: Cross-References to Kana Shōbōgenzō and Other Dōgen Texts
Appendix B: Lineage Charts
Biographical Notes
Glossary of Buddhist Terms
Index of Kōan Titles
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