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Index
Preface
Introduction
MUMONKAN
Memorial to the Throne
Mumon’s Preface
1 Jōshū’s “Mu”
2 Hyakujō’s Fox
3 Gutei Raises a Finger
4 The Western Barbarian with No Beard
5 Kyōgen’s “Man up in a Tree”
6 The Buddha Holds Out a Flower
7 Jōshū’s “Wash Your Bowl”
8 Keichū the Wheelmaker
9 Daitsū Chishō Buddha
10 Seizei Is Utterly Destitute
11 Jōshū Sees the Hermits
12 Zuigan Calls His Master
13 Tokusan Holds His Bowls
14 Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two
15 Tōzan’s Sixty Blows
16 When the Bell Sounds
17 Chū the National Teacher Gives Three Calls
18 Tōzan’s “Masagin”
19 Nansen’s “Ordinary Mind Is the Way”
20 The Man of Great Strength
21 Ummon’s “Kanshiketsu”
22 Kashyapa’s “Knock Down the Flagpole”
23 Think Neither Good Nor Evil
24 Fuketsu’s Speech and Silence
25 Kyōzan’s Dream
26 Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds
27 Nansen’s “Not Mind, Not Buddha, Not Things”
28 Ryūtan Blows Out the Candle
29 The Sixth Patriarch’s “Your Mind Moves”
30 Baso’s “This Very Mind Is the Buddha”
31 Jōshū Investigates an Old Woman
32 A Non-Buddhist Philosopher Questions the Buddha
33 Baso’s “No Mind, No Buddha”
34 Nansen’s “Reason Is Not the Way”
35 Seijo’s Soul Separated
36 When You Meet a Man of the Way
37 Jōshū’s Oak Tree
38 A Buffalo Passes the Window
39 A Mistake in Speaking
40 Tipping Over a Water Bottle
41 Bodhidharma’s Mind-Pacifying
42 The Girl Comes out of Samadhi
43 Shuzan’s Shippei
44 Bashō’s Staff
45 Hōen’s “Who Is He?”
46 Proceed On from the Top of the Pole
47 Tosotsu’s Three Barriers
48 Kempō’s One Road
Mumon’s Postscript
Mumon’s Zen Warnings
Sōju’s Verses on Ōryū’s Three Barriers
Mōkyō’s Epilogue
Amban’s Forty-ninth Case
HEKIGANROKU
1 Emperor Wu Asks Bodhidharma
2 Jōshū’s “The Real Way Is Not Difficult”
3 Baso’s “Sun-faced Buddha, Moon-faced Buddha”
4 Tokusan Visits Isan
5 Seppō’s “A Grain of Rice”
6 Ummon’s “Every Day Is a Good Day”
7 Hōgen’s “You Are Echō”
8 Suigan’s Eyebrows
9 Jōshū’s Four Gates
10 Bokushū’s “Empty-headed Fool”
11 Ōbaku’s “Partakers of Brewer’s Grain”
12 Tōzan’s “Masagin”
13 Haryō’s “Snow in the Silver Bowl”
14 Ummon’s “Preaching Facing Oneness”
15 Ummon’s “No Preaching on Oneness”
16 Kyōsei’s Instruction on Pecking and Tapping
17 Kyōrin’s “Sitting Long and Getting Tired”
18 Emperor Shukusō Asks About the Style of the Pagoda
19 Gutei’s One-Finger Zen
20 Ryūge Asks Suibi and Rinzai
21 Chimon’s Lotus Flower and Lotus Leaves
22 Seppō’s Turtle-nosed Snake
23 Hofuku Points to Myōhōchō
24 Ryūtetsuma the Old Female Buffalo
25 The Master of Rengehō’s Staff
26 Hyakujō Sits on the Great Sublime Peak
27 Ummon’s “Golden Breeze”
28 What the Holy Ones Have Not Preached
29 Daizui’s “It Will Be Gone with the Other”
30 Jōshū’s “A Big Radish”
31 Mayoku Comes to Shōkei
32 Jō Jōza Stands Still
33 Chinsō Shōsho Comes to Visit Shifuku
34 Kyōzan’s “You Have Not Visited Rozan”
35 Manjusri’s “Threes and Threes”
36 Chōsha Went for a Walk
37 Banzan’s “Three Worlds, No Dharma”
38 Fuketsu and the Dharma Seal of the Patriarch
39 Ummon’s “Kayakuran”
40 Nansen’s “This Flower”
41 Jōshū and the Great Death
42 Hō Koji’s “Beautiful Snowflakes”
43 Tōzan’s “No Cold or Heat”
44 Kasan’s “Beating the Drum”
45 Jōshū’s Seven-Pound Hempen Shirt
46 Kyōsei’s “Voice of the Raindrops”
47 Ummon’s “Beyond the Six”
48 Ō Taifu and the Tea Ceremony
49 Sanshō’s “The Golden Carp out of the Net”
50 Ummon’s “Particle After Particle’s Samadhi”
51 Seppō’s “What Is This?”
52 Jōshū’s Stone Bridge
53 Hyakujō and a Wild Duck
54 Ummon Stretches Out His Hands
55 Dogō’s “I Would Not Tell You”
56 Kinzan and One Arrow Piercing the Three Barriers
57 Jōshū’s “I Alone Am Holy Throughout Heaven and Earth”
58 Jōshū’s “No Justification”
59 Jōshū’s “Why Not Quote to the End?”
6o Ummon’s Staff Becoming a Dragon
61 Fuketsu’s “One Particle of Dust”
62 Ummon’s “One Treasure”
63 Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two
64 Jōshū Puts His Sandals on His Head
65 A Non-Buddhist Philosopher Questions the Buddha
66 Gantō Laughed Loudly
67 Fu Daishi Concludes His Lecture on the Sutra
68 Kyōzan Asks Sanshō’s Name
69 Nansen Draws a Circle
70 Isan’s “I Would Ask You to Say It”
71 Gohō’s “Shut Up”
72 Ungan’s “Do You Have Them or Not?”
73 Baso and the Hundred Negations
74 Kingyū Oshō and the Rice Pail
75 Ukyū’s Unfair Blows
76 Tanka’s “Have You Had Your Dinner?”
77 Ummon’s “A Sesame Bun”
78 Bodhisattvas in the Bath
79 Tōsu and “Every Voice Is the Buddha’s Voice”
80 Jōshū’s “A Newborn Baby”
81 Yakusan’s King of the King Deer
82 Tairyū’s “Indestructible Dharma Body”
83 Ummon’s “The Old Buddha Communes with the Pillar”
84 Yuima’s “The Gate to the One and Only”
85 The Master of Tōhō Hermitage Roars Like a Tiger
86 Ummon’s “Everybody Has His Own Light”
87 Ummon’s “Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other”
88 Gensha’s Man of Three Disabilities
89 Ungan’s “The Whole Body Is Hand and Eye”
90 Chimon and the Essence of Prajna
91 Enkan and the Rhinoceros Fan
92 The World-honored One Takes His Seat
93 Taikō’s “You Fox-Devil”
94 The Surangama Sutra and “Unseeing”
95 Chōkei and Hofuku Discuss the Buddha’s Words
96 Jōshū’s Three Turning Words
97 The Diamond Sutra’s “The Transgression Is Wiped Out”
98 Tempyō’s Two Wrongs
99 Chū Kokushi and the Ten-bodied Herdsman
100 Haryō’s Sword Against Which a Hair Is Blown
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