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Introductory and Closing Sections

 
Individual Discourses:
1-30
 
Individual Discourses:
31-64
 
Individual Discourses:
65-96
 

Cover Page
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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

(print version)

Translator's General Introduction

Glossary
Appendix of Names About the Translator

 

1. Bendowa
A Discourse on Doing One's Utmost in Practicing the Way of the Buddha

2. Makahannya-haramitsu
On the Great Wisdom That Is Beyond Discriminatory Thought

3. Genjo Koan
On the Spiritual Question as It Manifests Before Your Very Eyes

4. Ikka Myoju
On 'The One Bright Pearl'

5. Juundo-shiki 
On Conduct Appropriate for the Auxiliary Cloud Hall

6. Soku Shin Ze Butsu
On 'Your Very Mind Is Buddha'

7. Senjo
On Washing Yourself Clean

8. Keisei Sanshoku
On 'The Rippling of a Valley Stream, the Contour of a Mountain'

9. Shoaku Makusa
On 'Refrain from All Evil Whatsoever'

10. Raihai Tokuzui
On ' Respectful Bowing Will Secure for You the Very Marrow of the Way'

11. Uji
On 'Just for the Time Being, Just for a While, For the Whole of Time is the Whole of Existence'

12. Den'e
On the Transmission of the Kesa

13. Sansui Kyo
On the Spiritual Discourses of the Mountains and the Water

14. Busso
On the Buddhas and the Ancestors

15. Shisho
On the Record of Transmission

16. Hokke Ten Hokke
On 'The Flowering of the Dharma Sets the Dharma's Flowering in Motion'

17. Shin Fukatoku
On 'The Mind Cannot Be Held Onto'
(Oral version)

Translator's Addendum to Chapter 17

18. Shin Fukatoku
On 'The Mind Cannot Be Grasped'
(Written version)

19. Kokyo
On the Ancient Mirror

20. Kankin
On Reading Scriptures

21. Bussho
On Buddha Nature

Translator's Addendum to Chapter 21

22. Gyobutsu Iigi
On the Everyday Behavior of a Buddha Doing His Practice

23. Bukkyo
On What the Buddha Taught

24. Jinzu
On the Marvelous Spiritual Abilities

25. Daigo
On the Great Realization

26. Zazen Shin
On Wanshi's ' Kindly Advice for Doing Seated Meditation'

27. Butsu Kojo Ji
On Experiencing That Which Is Above and Beyond Buddhahood

28. Immo
On That Which Comes Like This

29. Gyoji
On Ceaseless Practice

30. Kaiin Zammai
On 'The Meditative State That Bears the Seal of the Ocean'

 

31. Juki
On Predicting Buddhahood

32. Kannon
On Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion

Translator's Addendum to Chapter 32

33. Arakan
On Arhat

34. Hakujushi
On the Cypress Tree

35. Komyo
On the Brightness of the Light

36. Shinjin Gakudo
On Learning the Way Through Body and Mind

37. Muchu Setsumu
On a Vision Within a Vision and a Dream Within a Dream

38. Dotoku
On Expressing What One Has Realized

39.Gabyo
On ' A Picture of a Rice Cake'

40. Zenki
On Functioning Fully

41. Sesshin Sessho
On Expressing One's True Nature by Expressing One's Intent

42. Darani
On Invocations: What We Offer to the Buddhas and Ancestors

43. Tsuki
On the Moon as One's Excellent Nature

44. Kuge
On the Flowering of the Unbounded

45. Kobusshin
On What the Mind of an Old Buddha Is

46. Bodaisatta Shishobo
On the Four Exemplary Acts of a Bodhisattva

47. Katto
On The Vines That Entangle: the Vines That Embrace

48. Sangai Yuishin
On 'The Threefold World Is Simply Your Mind'

49. Shoho Jisso
On the Real Form of All Thoughts and Things

50. Bukkyo
On Buddhist Scriptures

51. Butsudo
On the Buddha's Way

52. Mitsugo
On the Heart-to-Heart Language of Intimacy

53. Hossho
On the True Nature of All Things

54. Mujo Seppo
On the Dharma That Nonsentient Beings Express

55. Semmen
On Washing Your Face

56. Zazengi
On the Model for Doing Meditation

57. Baika
On the Plum Blossom

58. Jippo
On the Whole Universe in All Ten Directions

59. Kembutsu
On Encountering Buddha

60. Henzan
On Seeking One's Master Far and Wide

61. Ganzei
On the Eye of a Buddha

62. Kajo
On Everyday Life

63. Ryugin
On the Roar of a Dragon

64. Shunju
On Spring and Autumn: Warming Up and Cooling Down

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

65. Soshi Seirai I
On Why Our Ancestral Master Came from the West

66. Udonge
On the Udumbara Blossom

67. Hotsu Mujo Shin
On Giving Rise to the Unsurpassed Mind

68. Nyorai Zenshin
On the Universal Body of the Tathagata

69. Zammai-o Zammai
On the Meditative State That Is the Lord of Meditative States

70. Sanjushichihon Bodai Bumpo
On the Thirty-Seven Methods of Training for Realizing Enlightenment

71. Temborin
On Turning the Wheel of the Dharma

72. Jisho Zammai
On the Meditative State of One's True Nature

73. Daishugyo
On the Great Practice

74. Menju
On Conferring the Face-to-Face Transmission

75. Koku
On the Unbounded

76. Hatsu'u
On a Monk's Bowl

77. Ango
On the Summer Retreat

78. Tashintsu
On Reading the Minds and Hearts of Others

79. O Saku Sendaba
On 'The King Requests Something from Sindh'

80. Jikuin Mon
On Instructions for Monks in the Kitchen Hall

81. Shukke
On Leaving Home Life Behind

82. Shukke Kudoku
On the Spiritual Merits of Leaving Home Life Behind

83. Jukai
On Receiving the Precepts

84. Kesa Kudoku
On the Spiritual Merits of the Kesa

85. Hotsu Bodai Shin
On Giving Rise to the Enlightened Mind

86. Kuyo Shobutsu
On Making Venerative Offerings to Buddhas

87. Kie Bupposo Ho
On Taking Refuge in the Treasures of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha

88. Jinshin Inga
On the Absolute Certainty of Cause and Effect

89. Sanji Go
On Karmic Retribution in the Three Temporal Periods

90. Shime
On 'The Four Horses'

91. Shizen Biku
On the Monk in the Fourth Meditative State

92. Ippyakuhachi Homyomon
On the One Hundred and Eight Gates to What the Dharma Illumines

93. Shoji
On Life and Death 1086

94. Doshin
On the Mind's Search for Truth

95. Yui Butsu Yo Butsu
On 'Each Buddha on His Own, Together with All Buddhas'

96. Hachi Dainingaku
On the Eight Realizations of a Great One

   

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