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

5 5. 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 Uni versal 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 'T he 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

Glossary

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