Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Editors' Introduction xvii
I What Is Zen?
1 Stop and Look Under Your Own Feet 3
2 Dependent Co-origination and Attachment 7
3 Zen Is the Religion of Mu 11
4 Zen and Prejudice 17
5 Zen and Compassion 21
6 Zen Is a Matter of Awareness 25
7 Living and Dying Fully 29
8 Everyday Mind Is the Way 33
9 Zazen Instructions 37
II My Zen Training
10 My First Training Master 47
11 Rinzai Zen Monastic Training 51
12 A Thief Comes to Tofukuji 57
13 Experiencing Enlightenment 63
14 Master Shibayama's Teaching on Beyond Words 67
15 Severe Training 73
16 Koan Practice 79
17 Rough and Ready Zen 83
18 Meeting D. T. Suzuki 87
19 Satori Is Not Like LSD 91
III Zen Master Joshu
20 Joshu, You Dirty Old S.O.B 99
21 Joshu Meets Nansen 103
22 Zen Teacher, Zen Student: Joshu and Gonyo 107
23 Jiyu: Zen Freedom 111
24 Joshu's "Wash Your Bowls" 115
25 Joshu's "One Tooth" 119
26 Joshu's Playful Zen 123
IV Classical Teaching Stories
27 Bodhidharma's Zen 131
28 The Sixth Ancestor: Buddhism Becomes Zen 137
29 The Sixth Ancestor Becomes a Teacher 141
30 Baso and the Self 145
31 Hyakujo's Fox and Transcending Duality 149
32 Master Bokuju Trains Ummon 153
33 Fukei's Coffin, Ummon's Shit Stick, Tozan's Flax 157
34 Kyogen's Tree 161
35 Tozan's Hot and Cold 167
Acknowledgments 173
Notes 175
About the Author 177
About the Editors 179
