Two Zen Classics: The Gateless Gate and the Blue Cliff RecordsA. V. Grimstone A new translation of The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records, two classic collections of Zen koans—or guiding ‘riddles’—used in the study of Zen Buddhism The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan (The Gateless Gate) and Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Records), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. They are still used today in a variety of practice lineages, from traditional zendos to modern Zen centers. In a completely new translation, together with original commentaries, the well-known Zen teacher Katsuki Sekida brings to these works the same fresh and pragmatic approach that made his Zen Training so successful. The insights of a lifetime of Zen practice and his familiarity with both Eastern and Western ways of thinking make him an ideal interpreter of these texts. |
Contents
Preface | 11 |
Introduction | 13 |
Memorial to the Throne | 25 |
Mumons Preface | 26 |
Jōshus Mu | 27 |
Hyakujos Fox | 31 |
Gutei Raises a Finger | 34 |
The Western Barbarian with No Beard | 37 |
The Master of Rengehōs Staff | 212 |
Hyakujo Sits on the Great Sublime Peak | 216 |
Ummons Golden Breeze | 218 |
What the Holy Ones Have Not Preached | 220 |
Daizuis It Will Be Gone with the Other | 223 |
Joshus A Big Radish | 225 |
Mayoku Comes to Shōkei | 227 |
Jo Jōza Stands Still | 231 |
Kyōgens Man up in a Tree | 38 |
The Buddha Holds Out a Flower | 41 |
Jōshas Wash Your Bowl | 44 |
Keichu the Wheelmaker | 46 |
Daitsu Chisho Buddha | 47 |
Seizei Is Utterly Destitute | 49 |
Joshu Sees the Hermits | 51 |
Zuigan Calls His Master | 53 |
Tokusan Holds His Bowls | 55 |
Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two | 58 |
Is Tōzans Sixty Blows | 61 |
When the Bell Sounds | 65 |
Cha the National Teacher Gives Three Calls | 68 |
Tōzans Masagin | 71 |
Nansens Ordinary Mind Is the Way | 73 |
The Man of Great Strength | 75 |
Ummons Kanshiketsu | 77 |
Kashyapas Knock Down the Flagpole | 79 |
Think Neither Good Nor Evil | 81 |
Fuketsus Speech and Silence | 84 |
Kyōzans Dream | 87 |
Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds | 89 |
Nansens Not Mind Not Buddha Not Things | 91 |
Ryutan Blows Out the Candle | 93 |
The Sixth Patriarchs Your Mind Moves | 96 |
Basos This Very Mind Is the Buddha | 98 |
Jōshū Investigates an Old Woman 98 | 100 |
A NonBuddhist Philosopher Questions the Buddha | 102 |
Basos No Mind No Buddha | 104 |
Nansens Reason Is Not the Way | 105 |
Seijos Soul Separated | 106 |
When You Meet a Man of the Way | 108 |
Jōshus Oak Tree | 110 |
A Buffalo Passes the Window | 112 |
A Mistake in Speaking | 113 |
Tipping Over a Water Bottle | 116 |
Bodhidharmas MindPacifying | 118 |
The Girl Comes out of Samadhi | 121 |
Shuzans Shippei | 124 |
Bashōs Staff | 125 |
Hōens Who Is He? | 127 |
Tosotsus Three Barriers | 131 |
Kempos One Road | 134 |
Mumons Postscript | 136 |
Mumons Zen Warnings | 138 |
Sōjus Verses on ōryūs Three Barriers | 139 |
Mōkyos Epilogue | 141 |
Ambans Fortyninth Case | 142 |
Emperor Wu Asks Bodhidharma | 147 |
Jōshus The Real Way Is Not Difficult | 149 |
Basos Sunfaced Buddha Moonfaced Buddha | 152 |
Tokusan Visits Isan | 154 |
s Seppos A Grain of Rice | 159 |
Ummons Every Day Is a Good Day | 161 |
Hōgens You Are Echo | 166 |
Suigans Eyebrows | 168 |
Jōshus Four Gates | 171 |
Bokushus Emptyheaded Fool | 173 |
Obakus Partakers of Brewers Grain | 176 |
Tōzans Masagin | 179 |
Haryos Snow in the Silver Bowl | 182 |
Ummons Preaching Facing Oneness | 184 |
Is Ummons No Preaching on Oneness | 186 |
Kyōseis Instruction on Pecking and Tapping | 188 |
Kyōrins Sitting Long and Getting Tired | 191 |
Emperor Shukusō Asks About the Style of the Pagoda | 194 |
Guteis OneFinger Zen | 197 |
Ryüge Asks Suibi and Rinzai | 198 |
Chimons Lotus Flower and Lotus Leaves | 202 |
Seppos Turtlenosed Snake | 205 |
Hofuku Points to Myöhōchō | 207 |
Ryūtetsuma the Old Female Buffalo | 210 |
Chinsō Shōsho Comes to Visit Shifuku | 234 |
Kyōzans You Have Not Visited Rozan | 237 |
Manjusris Threes and Threes | 240 |
Chōsha Went for a Walk | 244 |
Banzans Three Worlds No Dharma | 246 |
Fuketsu and the Dharma Seal of the Patriarch | 249 |
Ummons Kayakuran | 252 |
Nansens This Flower | 255 |
Jōshū and the Great Death | 258 |
Hō Kojis Beautiful Snowflakes | 262 |
Tōzans No Cold or Heat | 265 |
Kasans Beating the Drum | 268 |
Jōshus SevenPound Hempen Shirt | 271 |
Kyōseis Voice of the Raindrops | 273 |
Ummons Beyond the Six | 277 |
Ō Taifu and the Tea Ceremony | 279 |
Sanshos The Golden Carp out of the Net | 282 |
so Ummons Particle After Particles Samadhi | 284 |
Seppos What Is This? | 287 |
Jōshus Stone Bridge | 291 |
Hyakujō and a Wild Duck | 293 |
Ummon Stretches Out His Hands | 296 |
Dōgos I Would Not Tell You | 298 |
Kinzan and One Arrow Piercing the Three Barriers | 302 |
Jōshus I Alone Am Holy Throughout Heaven and Earth | 306 |
Jōshūs No Justification | 308 |
Jōshus Why Not Quote to the End? | 309 |
Ummons Staff Becoming a Dragon | 311 |
Fuketsus One Particle of Dust | 314 |
Ummons One Treasure | 317 |
Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two | 319 |
Jōshū Puts His Sandals on His Head | 320 |
A NonBuddhist Philosopher Questions the Buddha | 321 |
Ganto Laughed Loudly | 324 |
Fu Daishi Concludes His Lecture on the Sutra | 326 |
Kyōzan Asks Sanshōs Name | 328 |
Nansen Draws a Circle | 330 |
Isans I Would Ask You to Say It | 332 |
Gohōs Shut Up | 334 |
Ungans Do You Have Them or Not? | 335 |
Baso and the Hundred Negations | 336 |
Kingya Osho and the Rice Pail | 339 |
Ukyus Unfair Blows | 342 |
Tankas Have You Had Your Dinner? | 344 |
Ummons A Sesame Bun | 349 |
Bodhisattvas in the Bath | 351 |
Tōsu and Every Voice Is the Buddhas Voice | 352 |
Jōshus A Newborn Baby | 354 |
Yakusans King of the King Deer | 356 |
Tairyus Indestructible Dharma Body | 358 |
Ummons The Old Buddha Communes with the Pillar | 361 |
Yuimas The Gate to the One and Only | 363 |
The Master of Tōhō Hermitage Roars Like a Tiger | 366 |
Ummons Everybody Has His Own Light | 368 |
Ummons Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other | 370 |
Genshas Man of Three Disabilities | 372 |
Ungans The Whole Body Is Hand and Eye | 375 |
Chimon and the Essence of Prajna | 377 |
Enkan and the Rhinoceros Fan | 379 |
The Worldhonored One Takes His Seat | 383 |
Taikos You FoxDevil | 385 |
The Surangama Sutra and Unseeing | 387 |
Chōkei and Hofuku Discuss the Buddhas Words | 388 |
Jōshus Three Turning Words | 391 |
The Diamond Sutras The Transgression Is Wiped Out | 394 |
Tempyos Two Wrongs | 395 |
Chu Kokushi and the Tenbodied Herdsman | 398 |
Haryos Sword Against Which a Hair Is Blown | 400 |
Genealogical Table | 403 |
Index | 407 |
237 | 410 |
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