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List of Illustrations | |
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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Sermons | |
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Opening of the sermons | |
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Listen carefully | |
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Precepts | |
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The same old thing | |
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I don't talk about Buddhism | |
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Meeting masters: Dosha and Ingen | |
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I'm ready to be your witness! | |
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Growing up deluded | |
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Thirty days in the Unborn | |
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Ask me and I'll tell you | |
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"The Kappa" | |
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Don't beat sleeping monks | |
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Mind reading | |
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Moving ahead/sliding back | |
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Old wastepaper | |
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Self-centeredness | |
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Bankei's Kannon | |
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Getting sidetracked | |
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Self-power/other-power | |
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Dreams | |
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Everybody has the Buddha Mind | |
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Being living buddhas | |
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Servants, samurai, husbands and wives | |
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"Buddha" Magoemon | |
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Like little children of three or four | |
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Getting angry | |
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Blindness and the Unborn | |
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Now I'm going to talk to the women | |
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The old nurse from Sanuki | |
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Nothing to do with rules | |
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Devices | |
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Plain speaking | |
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Illness and the Buddha Mind | |
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Being free in birth and death | |
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The original face | |
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Entrances | |
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To practice is hard | |
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The crow and the cormorant | |
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Let it be | |
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The lawsuit | |
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Mu | |
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The crows go kaa-kaa, the sparrows, chuu-chuu | |
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Two thirds is with the Unborn | |
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Looking for enlightenment | |
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No delusion, no enlightenment | |
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Water and ice | |
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Stopping thoughts | |
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The mirror | |
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Fire is hot | |
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Be stupid! | |
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Smoking | |
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No such thing as enlightenment | |
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Abide in the Buddha Mind | |
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When thoughts arise | |
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Letting things take care of themselves | |
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HOGO (Instruction) | |
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Duality | |
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The dog and the chicken | |
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Farming with the Buddha Mind | |
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The travelers | |
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Parents | |
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Becoming an expert at delusion | |
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The living Buddha Mind | |
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The "teetotaler" | |
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Suppression is delusion too | |
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Right now | |
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Sleeping and waking | |
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Sendai | |
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The place of the Unborn | |
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Letting go | |
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Just as you are | |
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Not even a trace | |
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Kantaro's question | |
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Josen | |
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The gambler | |
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Miracles | |
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A visiting monk | |
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Being/nonbeing | |
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Why are we born? | |
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The one who sees and hears | |
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The woman afraid of thunder | |
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Bereavement | |
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Blinding your eyes | |
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Everything is smoothly managed | |
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Where do you go? | |
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The golden ball | |
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Thinking | |
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Women | |
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The merchant's dream | |
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It's fine just to feel that way | |
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Using the three inches | |
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Koans | |
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The great doubt | |
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Is this buddha? | |
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Layman Chozen | |
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The craftsman's dilemma | |
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The angry abbot | |
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When I first began to search | |
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All the difference of heaven and earth | |
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Watch where you're going | |
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The proof | |
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True acceptance | |
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My old illness | |
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Seven out of ten | |
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The monk Zeshin | |
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From the Gyogo Ryakki | |
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Suspicion | |
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Handling delinquents | |
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The missing paper | |
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Poems | |
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Chinese Poems | |
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Japanese Poems | |
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Letters | |
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Letter from Umpo and Bankei's reply | |
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Letter to Sasaki Nobutsugu | |
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Letter to Yosen | |
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Letter to Rintei | |
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Letter to Lady Naga | |
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Instruction for the Layman Gesso | |
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"Words and Deeds" (Miscellaneous Materials) | |
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Bankei's childhood | |
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The priest's Fudo | |
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At the post station | |
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Bankei faces death | |
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Among the beggars | |
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The missing coins | |
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The Confucians | |
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The rich man's wife | |
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The wolf | |
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The steward's invitation | |
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Heaven and hell | |
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From your own mouth | |
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Genshin's thousand buddhas | |
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Offerings | |
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Counting | |
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Soen's special teaching | |
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Positive and negative | |
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Layman Gesso's runny nose | |
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The thief | |
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Bankei and the stingy monk | |
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The samurai's fan | |
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Bankei's "no rules" | |
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Chokei's seven cushions | |
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The fencing master | |
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Nanryu's place | |
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The rays of light | |
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As you are is it! | |
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Settei's medicine | |
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Shopping for the best | |
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The Confucian's question | |
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Waste paper/clean paper | |
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Bankei's natural method | |
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Bankei's night sermon | |
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The old tree | |
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Bankei and the blind man | |
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Hachiroemon | |
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Notes | |
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Translator's Notes | |