Sitting with Koans: Essential Writings on ZEN Koan Introspection 9780861717644, 0861717643, 0-86171-369-9
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Table of contents :
Content: Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: The Anatomy of the Zen Koan
Editor's Note
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
1. The Definition of a Koan: Chung-feng Ming-pen
2. The Song Period: A Time of Maturation
3. Five Houses of Zen
4. The ""Short-cut"" Approach of K'an-Hua Meditation
5. Koan Practice
6. The Nature of the Rinzai (Linji) Koan Practice
7. The Steps of Koan Practice
JAPANESE KOAN STUDY
8. Dogen and Koans
9. Keizan, Koans, and Succession in the Soto School
10. Ancestor Dajian Huineng
11. Hakuin Ekaku and the Modern Koan System
12. Orategama Zokushu. 13. The Voice of the Sound of One HandMODERN KOAN COMMENTARIES
14. Ninth Koan
15. Prajnatara Recites His Sutra
16. Passover Teisho
17. Nansen (Nanquan) kills a Cat
18. Commentary on the Koan ""Mu""
19. Roso (Luzu) Faces the Wall
20. The Book of Master Rinzai (Linji)
21. Bodhidharma's Emptiness
22. Think Neither Good Nor Evil
23. A Buffalo Passes Through a Window
24. Moshan's Nature of the Summit Mountain
25. Everybody's Light
Who's Who
Permission Credits
Index.
