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1 Contents Title Page Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments Translator s General Introduction i ii iii iv xiv 1. Bendōwa A Discourse on Doing One s Utmost in Practicing the Way of the Buddha 1 2. Makahannya-haramitsu On the Great Wisdom That Is Beyond Discriminatory Thought Genjō Kōan On the Spiritual Question as It Manifests Before Your Very Eyes Ikka Myōju On The One Bright Pearl Jūundō-shiki On Conduct Appropriate for the Auxiliary Cloud Hall Soku Shin Ze Butsu On Your Very Mind Is Buddha Senjō On Washing Yourself Clean Keisei Sanshoku On The Rippling of a Valley Stream, the Contour of a Mountain Shoaku Makusa On Refrain from All Evil Whatsoever Raihai Tokuzui On Respectful Bowing Will Secure for You the Very Marrow of the Way 89

2 11. Uji On Just for the Time Being, Just for a While, For the Whole of Time is the Whole of Existence Den e On the Transmission of the Kesa Sansui Kyō On the Spiritual Discourses of the Mountains and the Water Busso On the Buddhas and the Ancestors Shisho On the Record of Transmission Hokke Ten Hokke On The Flowering of the Dharma Sets the Dharma s Flowering in Motion Shin Fukatoku On The Mind Cannot Be Held Onto (Oral version) 188 Translator s Addendum to Chapter Shin Fukatoku On The Mind Cannot Be Grasped (Written version) Kokyō On the Ancient Mirror Kankin On Reading Scriptures Busshō On Buddha Nature 244 Translator s Addendum to Chapter Gyōbutsu Iigi On the Everyday Behavior of a Buddha Doing His Practice 280

3 23. Bukkyō On What the Buddha Taught Jinzū On the Marvelous Spiritual Abilities Daigo On the Great Realization Zazen Shin On Wanshi s Kindly Advice for Doing Seated Meditation Butsu Kōjō Ji On Experiencing That Which Is Above and Beyond Buddhahood Immo On That Which Comes Like This Gyōji On Ceaseless Practice Kaiin Zammai On The Meditative State That Bears the Seal of the Ocean Juki On Predicting Buddhahood Kannon On Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion 458 Translator s Addendum to Chapter Arakan On Arhats Hakujushi On the Cypress Tree Kōmyō On the Brightness of the Light Shinjin Gakudō

4 On Learning the Way Through Body and Mind Muchū Setsumu On a Vision Within a Vision and a Dream Within a Dream Dōtoku On Expressing What One Has Realized Gabyō On A Picture of a Rice Cake Zenki On Functioning Fully Sesshin Sesshō On Expressing One s True Nature by Expressing One s Intent Darani On Invocations: What We Offer to the Buddhas and Ancestors Tsuki On the Moon as One s Excellent Nature Kūge On the Flowering of the Unbounded Kobusshin On What the Mind of an Old Buddha Is Bodaisatta Shishōbō On the Four Exemplary Acts of a Bodhisattva Kattō On The Vines That Entangle: the Vines That Embrace Sangai Yuishin On The Threefold World Is Simply Your Mind Shohō Jissō On the Real Form of All Thoughts and Things Bukkyō

5 On Buddhist Scriptures Butsudō On the Buddha s Way Mitsugo On the Heart-to-Heart Language of Intimacy Hosshō On the True Nature of All Things Mujō Seppō On the Dharma That Nonsentient Beings Express Semmen On Washing Your Face Zazengi On the Model for Doing Meditation Baika On the Plum Blossom Jippō On the Whole Universe in All Ten Directions Kembutsu On Encountering Buddha Henzan On Seeking One s Master Far and Wide Ganzei On the Eye of a Buddha Kajō On Everyday Life Ryūgin On the Roar of a Dragon Shunjū

6 On Spring and Autumn: Warming Up and Cooling Down Soshi Seirai I On Why Our Ancestral Master Came from the West Udonge On the Udumbara Blossom Hotsu Mujō Shin On Giving Rise to the Unsurpassed Mind Nyorai Zenshin On the Universal Body of the Tathagata Zammai-ō Zammai On the Meditative State That Is the Lord of Meditative States Sanjūshichihon Bodai Bumpō On the Thirty-Seven Methods of Training for Realizing Enlightenment Tembōrin On Turning the Wheel of the Dharma Jishō Zammai On the Meditative State of One s True Nature Daishugyō On the Great Practice Menju On Conferring the Face-to-Face Transmission Kokū On the Unbounded Hatsu u On a Monk s Bowl Ango

7 On the Summer Retreat Tashintsū On Reading the Minds and Hearts of Others Ō Saku Sendaba On The King Requests Something from Sindh Jikuin Mon On Instructions for Monks in the Kitchen Hall Shukke On Leaving Home Life Behind Shukke Kudoku On the Spiritual Merits of Leaving Home Life Behind Jukai On Receiving the Precepts Kesa Kudoku On the Spiritual Merits of the Kesa Hotsu Bodai Shin On Giving Rise to the Enlightened Mind Kuyō Shobutsu On Making Venerative Offerings to Buddhas Kie Buppōsō Hō On Taking Refuge in the Treasures of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha Jinshin Inga On the Absolute Certainty of Cause and Effect Sanji Gō On Karmic Retribution in the Three Temporal Periods Shime

8 On The Four Horses Shizen Biku On the Monk in the Fourth Meditative State Ippyakuhachi Hōmyōmon On the One Hundred and Eight Gates to What the Dharma Illumines Shōji On Life and Death Dōshin On the Mind s Search for Truth Yui Butsu Yo Butsu On Each Buddha on His Own, Together with All Buddhas Hachi Dainingaku On the Eight Realizations of a Great One 1100 Glossary 1106 Appendix of Names 1110 About the Translator 1118

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