Two Zen Classics: Mumonkan and HekiganrokuA. V. Grimstone The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan (Gateless Gate) and Hekiganroku (Blue Cliff Record), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. In a completely new translation, together with original commentaries, 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 Western as well as Eastern ways of thinking make him an ideal interpreter of these texts |
Contents
MUMONKAN | 11 |
Memorial to the Throne | 25 |
Mumons Preface | 26 |
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absolute samadhi action activity of consciousness answer appears attained Baso Baso's blows Bodhidharma Bodhisattva Buddha Buddha Nature Buddhahood Buddhism called China Chōkei conceptual Dharma battle Dharmakaya disciple Dōgo dragon emptiness Engo ENGO'S INTRODUCTION enlightenment Enō everything flower Fuketsu Gantō gate Gensha Gutei hearing heaven Hekiganroku Hofuku Hōgen holding fast Hyakujō Isan Jōshū Kashyapa koan Kokushi Kyōgen Kyōzan letting go Mahakashyapa MAIN SUBJECT Manjusri meaning mind monastery monk asked monk's mountain Muchaku MUMON'S VERSE Mumonkan Myō Nansen NOTES Ōbaku one's ordinary Oshō Patriarch positive samadhi preaching pure cognition question realization Rinzai Ryūtan Sanshō Seizei Sekisō Seppō Setchō says SETCHO'S VERSE Shakyamuni Shakyamuni Buddha silent Sōtō SUBJECT A monk Sutra sword Taiyu talking teaching tell temple Tempyō things thinking third nen thousand tiger Tokusan Tōsu Tōzan transcends true truth Ukyū Ummon understanding wisdom words wrong zazen Zen masters Zen practice Zen students Zen Training