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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 | |