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Summary
Summary
When Zen Flesh, Zen Bones was published in 1957 it became an instant sensation with an entire generation of readers who were just beginning to experiment with Zen. Over the years it has inspired leading American Zen teachers, students, and practitioners. Its popularity is as high today as ever.
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones is a book that offers a collection of accessible, primary Zen sources so that readers can struggle over the meaning of Zen for themselves. It includes 101 Zen Stories, a collection of tales that recount actual experiences of Chinese and Japanese Zen teachers over a period of more than five centuries; The Gateless Gate , the famous thirteenth-century collection of Zen koans; Ten Bulls , a twelfth century commentary on the stages of awareness leading to enlightenment; and Centering , a 4,000 year-old teaching from India that some consider to be the roots of Zen.
Author Notes
Paul Reps , the compiler, was an American who lived in many countries, including India, Norway, and Japan and studied many of man's efforts to find and realize his true spiritual stature. He was the author of several books of poems and prose. He once said that he felt "the equal of each grass blade and pebble and believe that it is possible to be happy though human and grown up."
Nyogen Senzaki , a Buddhist scholar of an international character to whom Reps acknowledged a deep debt of gratitude, was born in Japan. Early in life, he became a "homeless monk," wandering the land and studying from Buddhist monastery to monastery. His wanderings eventually took him to America, where for over 50 years he lived in California, with no connection with any sect, denomination, or cathedral, radiating the free and creative spirit of Zen upon all who cared to share his study, meditation, wisdom, and loving kindness.
Table of Contents
Foreword | p. 11 |
101 Zen Stories | p. 15 |
1. A cup of Tea | p. 19 |
2. Finding a Diamond on a Muddy Road | p. 19 |
3. Is That so? | p. 22 |
4. Obedience | p. 23 |
5. If You Love, Love Openly | p. 24 |
6. No Loving-Kindness | p. 24 |
7. Announcement | p. 25 |
8. Great Waves | p. 25 |
9. The Moon Cannot be Stolen | p. 27 |
10. The Last Poem of Hoshin | p. 27 |
11. The Story of Shunkai | p. 29 |
12. Happy Chinaman | p. 31 |
13. A Buddha | p. 32 |
14. Muddy Road | p. 33 |
15. Shoun and His Mother | p. 34 |
16. Not Far From Buddhahood | p. 36 |
17. Stingy in Teaching | p. 36 |
18. A Parable | p. 38 |
19. The First Principle | p. 39 |
20. A Mother's Advice | p. 40 |
21. The Sound of one Hand | p. 41 |
22. My Heart Burns Like Fire | p. 43 |
23. Eshun's Departure | p. 44 |
24. Reciting Sutras | p. 44 |
25. Three Days More | p. 45 |
26. Trading Dialogue for Lodging | p. 46 |
27. The Voice of Happiness | p. 47 |
28. Open Your Own Treasure House | p. 48 |
29. No Water, No Moon | p. 48 |
30. Calling Card | p. 49 |
31. Everything is Best | p. 50 |
32. Inch Time Foot Gem | p. 50 |
33. Mokusen's Hand | p. 51 |
34. A Smile in His Lifetime | p. 51 |
35. Every-Minute Zen | p. 52 |
36. Flower Shower | p. 53 |
37. Publishing the Sutras | p. 53 |
38. Gisho's Work | p. 54 |
39. Sleeping in the Daytime | p. 55 |
40. In Dreamland | p. 56 |
41. Joshu's Zen | p. 57 |
42. The Dead Man's Answer | p. 57 |
43. Zen in a Beggar's Life | p. 58 |
44. The Thief Who Became a Disciple | p. 59 |
45. Right and Wrong | p. 60 |
46. How Grass and Trees Become Enlightened | p. 61 |
47. The Stingy Artist | p. 62 |
48. Accurate Proportion | p. 63 |
49. Black-Nosed Buddha | p. 64 |
50. Ryonen's Clear Realization | p. 65 |
51. Sour Miso | p. 66 |
52. Your Light May Go Out | p. 67 |
53. The Giver Should be Thankful | p. 67 |
54. The Last Will and Testament | p. 68 |
55. The Tea-Master and the Assassin | p. 69 |
56. The True Path | p. 71 |
57. The Gates of Paradise | p. 71 |
58. Arresting the Stone Buddha | p. 72 |
59. Soldiers of Humanity | p. 73 |
60. The Tunnel | p. 74 |
61. Gudo and the Emperor | p. 75 |
62. In the Hands of Destiny | p. 76 |
63. Killing | p. 77 |
64. Kasan Sweat | p. 77 |
65. The Subjugation of a Ghost | p. 78 |
66. Children of His Majesty | p. 79 |
67. What are You Doing! What are You Saying! | p. 80 |
68. One Note of Zen | p. 81 |
69. Eating the Blame | p. 82 |
70. The Most Valuable Thing in the World | p. 83 |
71. Learning to be Silent | p. 83 |
72. The Blockhead Lord | p. 84 |
73. Ten Successors | p. 84 |
74. True Reformation | p. 85 |
75. Temper | p. 86 |
76. The Stone Mind | p. 87 |
77. No Attachment to Dust | p. 87 |
78. Real Prosperity | p. 89 |
79. Incense Burner | p. 89 |
80. The Real Miracle | p. 90 |
81. Just Go to Sleep | p. 91 |
82. Nothing Exists | p. 92 |
83. No Work, No Food | p. 92 |
84. True Friends | p. 93 |
85. Time to Die | p. 94 |
86. The Living Buddha and the Tubmaker | p. 94 |
87. Three Kinds of Success | p. 95 |
88. How to Write a Chinese Poem | p. 96 |
89. Zen Dialogue | p. 96 |
90. The Last Rap | p. 97 |
91. The Taste of Banzo's Sword | p. 98 |
92. Fire-Poker Zen | p. 100 |
93. Storyteller's Zen | p. 100 |
94. Midnight Excursion | p. 101 |
95. A Letter to a Dying Man | p. 102 |
96. A Drop of Water | p. 103 |
97. Teaching the Ultimate | p. 103 |
98. Non-Attachment | p. 104 |
99. Tosui's Vinegar | p. 105 |
100. The Silent Temple | p. 106 |
101. Buddha's Zen | p. 106 |
The Gateless Gate | p. 109 |
1. Joshu's Dog | p. 115 |
2. Hyakujo's Fox | p. 117 |
3. Gutei's Finger | p. 119 |
4. A Beardless Foreigner | p. 120 |
5. Kyogen Mounts the Tree | p. 121 |
6. Buddha Twirls a Flower | p. 121 |
7. Joshu Washes the Bowl | p. 123 |
8. Keichu's Wheel | p. 123 |
9. A Buddha Before History | p. 124 |
10. Seizei Alone and Poor | p. 125 |
11. Joshu Ekamines A Monk in Meditation | p. 126 |
12. Zuigan Calls His Own Master | p. 127 |
13. Tokusan Holds His Bowl | p. 127 |
14. Nansen Outs the Cat in Two | p. 128 |
15. Tozan's Three Blows | p. 129 |
16. Bells and Robes | p. 131 |
17. Three Calls of the Emperor's Teacher | p. 132 |
18. Tozan's Three Pounds | p. 133 |
19. Everyday Life is the Path | p. 133 |
20. The Enlightened Man | p. 134 |
21. Dried Dung | p. 135 |
22. Kashapa's Preaching Sign | p. 136 |
23. Do not Think Good, Do not Think Not-Good | p. 137 |
24. Without Words, Without Silence | p. 138 |
25. Apreaching from the Third Seat | p. 139 |
26. Two Monks Roll up the Screen | p. 140 |
27. It is not Mind, it is not Buddha, it is not Things | p. 141 |
28. Blow out the Candle | p. 141 |
29. Not the Wind, not the Flag | p. 143 |
30. This Mind is Buddha | p. 144 |
30. Joshu Investigates | p. 145 |
32. A Philosopher Asks Buddha | p. 146 |
33. This Mind is not Buddha | p. 147 |
34. Learning is not the Path | p. 147 |
35. Two Souls | p. 148 |
36. Meeting a Zen Master on the Road | p. 149 |
37. A Buffalo Passes Through the Enclosure | p. 149 |
38. An Oak Tree in the Garden | p. 150 |
39. Ummon's Sidetrack | p. 151 |
40. Tipping Over a Water Vase | p. 151 |
41. Bodhidharma Pacifies the Mind | p. 152 |
42. The Girl Comes out from Meditation | p. 153 |
43. Shuzan's Short Staff | p. 155 |
44. Basho's Staff | p. 156 |
45. Who is He? | p. 156 |
46. Proceed from the Top of the Pole | p. 157 |
47. Three Gates of Tosotsu | p. 158 |
48. One Road of Kembo | p. 159 |
49. Amban's Addition | p. 160 |
10 Bulls | p. 163 |
1. The Search for the Bull | p. 168 |
2. Discovering the Footprints | p. 170 |
3. Perceiving the Bull | p. 172 |
4. Catching the Bull | p. 174 |
5. Taming the Bull | p. 176 |
6. Riding the Bull Home | p. 178 |
7. The Bull Transcended | p. 180 |
8. Both Bull and Self Transcended | p. 182 |
9. Reaching the Source | p. 184 |
10. In the World | p. 186 |
Centering | p. 189 |
What is Zen? | p. 211 |