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Index
PART ONE The End and the Beginning
Resolve
Jizo Cloister
Dragon Gate
Main Gate
Temporary Quarters
Lavatory
Facing the Wall
Buddha Bowl
Evening Service
Evening Meal
Night Sitting
PART TWO Etiquette Is Zen
Morning Service
Morning Meal
Cleaning the Corridors
Dignified Dress
Washing the Face
Verses
Noon
Stick
PART THREE Alone in the Freezing Dark
Entering the Hall
Monks’ Hall
Common Quarters
Wake-up Bell
Bell Tower
Self-reflection
Food Server
Monks’ Food
Shaving the Head
Daikan
Hunger
PART FOUR The Passage of Time
Escape
Registration Ceremony
First Bath
Beginning Intensive Training
Manual Labor
Penance
Main Lecture
Transfer
PART FIVE The Source of the Warmth of Life
New Job
Sales
Distribution of Goods
Guest Pavilion
Inspection
Washrags
Ending Intensive Training
PART SIX The Colors of the Peak, the Echo in the Valley
Attendant to the Director
Conference Room
In Attendance
Morning Session
Incense Bearer
Preparations for Winter
Intensive Sitting
Year-end Cleaning
New Year’s Day
New Arrivals
Just Sit
Departure Survey
Leaving
Afterword to the Japanese First Edition
Afterword to the Japanese Paperback Edition
Notes
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