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Table of Contents Foreword by Bernie Glassman xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Case 1: The World-Honored One Ascends the Platform 11 Case 2: Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness 13 Case 3: An Invitation for the Patriarch 16 Case 4: The World-Honored One Points to the Earth 18 Case 5: Seigan's Cost of Rice 20 Case 6: Baso's White and Black 22 Case 7: Yakusan Takes the High Seat 25 Case 8: Hyakujo's Fox 28 Case 9: Nansen Cuts a Cat 31 Case 10: Joshu Sees Through the Old Woman 34 Case 11: Ummon's Two Sicknesses 37 Case 12: Jizo Plants the Field 40 Case 13: Rinzai's Blind Donkey 43 Case 14: Attendant Kaku Serves Tea 46 Case 15: Kyozan Plants His Mattock 49 Case 16: Mayoku Thumps His Staff 51 Case 17: Hogen's Hair's-Breadth 54 Case 18: Joshu's Dog 57 Case 19: Ummon's Mount Sumeru 60 Case 20: Jizo's "Not Knowing Is the Most Intimate" 63 Case 21: Ungan Sweeps the Ground 66 Case 22: Ganto's Bow and Shout 69 Case 23: Roso Faces the Wall 72 Case 24: Seppo's Poison Snake 75 Case 25: Enkan's Rhinoceros-Horn Fan 78 Case 26: Kyozan Points to Snow 81 Case 27: Hogen Points to the Blind 84 Case 28: Gokoku's Three Shames 87 Case 29: Fuketsu's Iron Ox 90 Case 30: Daizui's Kalpa Fire 94 Case 31: Ummon's Free-Standing Pillar 98 Case 32: Kyozan's State of Mind 100 Case 33: Sansho's Golden Carp 103 Case 34: Fuketsu's Speck of Dust 106 Case 35: Rakuho's Acquiescence 108 Case 36: Baso's Illness 112 Case 37: Isan's Karmic Consciousness 114 Case 38: Rinzai's True Man 117 Case 39: Joshu's Bowl Washing 120 Case 40: Ummon's White and Black 123 Case 41: Rakuho's Last Moments 126 Case 42: Nanyo's Wash Basin 130 Case 43: Razan's Arising and Vanishing 132 Case 44: Koyo's Garuda Bird 134 Case 45: The Sutra of Complete Awakening 138 Case 46: Tokusan's Completion of Study 141 Case 47: Joshu's Cypress Tree 144 Case 48: Vimalakirti's Nonduality 147 Case 49: Tozan Offers to the Essence 150 Case 50: Seppo's "What's This?" 154 Case 51: Hogen's "By Boat or Land" 158 Case 52: Sozan's Dharmakaya 161 Case 53: Obaku's Dregs 164 Case 54: Ungan's Great Compassionate One 168 Case 55: Seppo the Rice Cook 171 Case 56: Mishi's White Rabbit 174 Case 57: Genyo's One Thing 178 Case 58: The Diamond Sutra's Reviling 181 Case 59: Seirin's Deadly Snake 184 Case 60: Ryutetsuma's Old Cow 187 Case 61: Kempo's One Stroke 190 Case 62: Beiko's No Enlightenment 193 Case 63: Joshu Asks About Death 196 Case 64: Shisho's Transmission 199 Case 65: Shuzan's New Bride 203 Case 66: Kyuho's Head and Tail 206 Case 67: The Avatamsaka Sutra's Wisdom 210 Case 68: Kassan's Slashing Sword 214 Case 69: Nansen's Cats and Cows 217 Case 70: Shinzan Questions the Nature of Life 220 Case 71: Suigan's Eyebrows 223 Case 72: Chuyu's Monkey 226 Case 73: Sozan's Requited Filial Piety 229 Case 74: Hogen's Substance and Name 232 Case 75: Zuigan's Permanent Principle 235 Case 76: Shuzan's Three Phrases 238 Case 77: Kyozan Holds His Own 241 Case 78: Ummon's Farm Rice-Cake 245 Case 79: Chosha Advances a Step 248 Case 80: Ryuge Passes the Chin Rest 252 Case 81: Gensha Comes to the Province 256 Case 82: Ummon's Sounds and Shapes 259 Case 83: Dogo's Nursing 262 Case 84: Gutei's One Finger 265 Case 85: The National Teacher's Seamless Tomb 268 Case 86: Rinzai's Great Enlightenment 271 Case 87: Sozan's With or Without 275 Case 88: The Shurangama's Unseen 278 Case 89: Tozan's No Grass 282 Case 90: Kyozan Respectfully Declares It 286 Case 91: Nansen's Peony 289 Case 92: Ummon's One Treasure 292 Case 93: Roso's Not Understanding 295 Case 94: Tozan's Illness 299 Case 95: Rinzai's One Stroke 302 Case 96: Kyuho's Disapproval 305 Case 97: Emperor Ko's Cap 309 Case 98: Tozan's Heed 312 Case 99: Ummon's Bowl and Pail 315 Case 100: Roya's Mountains and Rivers 318 Appendix: Masters Referenced in Book of Equanimity I. Ancient Chinese and Japanese Ancestors 321 II. Indian Ancestors and Bodhisattvas 327 III. Modern Ancestors and Teachers 328 Suggested Further Reading 329
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Zhengjue, 1091-1157. Tiantong Jue he shang song gu.
Koan.