Two Arrows Meeting in Mid-air: The Zen KoanThrough a comprehensive introduction and twenty-one chapters centered on koans from classic collections, western literary sources, and modern encounters, this book explains the relevance of koan study to Zen training today. It illuminates the value of koans in the practice of self-realization and their aliveness within the teacher-student relationship. This collection will prove an invaluable reference on koan study for those pursuing a greater understanding of Zen Buddhism. |
Contents
Foreword by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi | ix |
Preface by Peter Muryo Matthiessen | xiii |
Acknowledgments | xv |
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absolute Ancestor answer Avalokiteshvara barrier become Blue Cliff Record Bodhidharma Bodhisattva body and mind Book of Equanimity bright pearl Buddha Buddha-nature Buddhism CAPPING VERSE caterpillar Chao-chou comes compassion create Dharma combat dharmakaya Dogen dokusan dream empty everything fall into causation flower fox body Gateless Gate hands and eyes happens hear Hsüeh-feng Huang-po Hui-neng insentient intimacy kensho kind koan study Kuei-shan let go Lin-chi lineage lives look Lu-hsüan Ma-tsu Mahakashyapa manifest Manjushri Master Dogen means monastic mountains and rivers Nan-ch'üan note says one's ordinary mind Pai-chang practice Precepts PROLOGUE question reaches everywhere reality realize responsibility Rinzai Roshi sentient separation sesshin Shakyamuni shikantaza Shobogenzo sickness side sitting spiritual stick student Sutra Ta-yü talk Tao-wu Te-shan teaching There's thirty blows thousand things tion truth Tung-shan turned understand walk What's whole body whole universe wonderful Wu-men Yang-shan Yen-t'ou Yün-men zazen Zen Mountain Monastery zendo