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The eccentric Bankei has long been an underground hero in the world of Zen. At a time when Zen was becoming overly formalized in Japan, he stressed its relevance to everyday life, insisting on the importance of naturalness and spontaneity.
Bankei Zen : Translations from the Record of Bankei
by Edited by Yoshito HakedaEdition: Reprint
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1994-01-23
Publisher(s): Grove Press
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Summary
Author Biography
Haskel received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. x |
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Sermons | |
| p. 3 | |
| Opening of the sermons | |
| Listen carefully | |
| Precepts | |
| The same old thing | |
| I don't talk about Buddhism | |
| Meeting masters: Dosha and Ingen | |
| I'm ready to be your witness! | |
| Growing up deluded | |
| Thirty days in the Unborn | |
| Ask me and I'll tell you | |
| "The Kappa" | |
| Don't beat sleeping monks | |
| Mind reading | |
| Moving ahead/sliding back | |
| Old wastepaper | |
| Self-centeredness | |
| Bankei's Kannon | |
| Getting sidetracked | |
| Self-power/other-power | |
| Dreams | |
| Everybody has the Buddha Mind | |
| Being living buddhas | |
| Servants, samurai, husbands and wives | |
| "Buddha" Magoemon | |
| Like little children of three or four | |
| Getting angry | |
| Blindness and the Unborn | |
| p. 55 | |
| Now I'm going to talk to the women | |
| The old nurse from Sanuki | |
| Nothing to do with rules | |
| Devices | |
| Plain speaking | |
| Illness and the Buddha Mind | |
| Being free in birth and death | |
| The original face | |
| Entrances | |
| To practice is hard | |
| The crow and the cormorant | |
| Let it be | |
| The lawsuit | |
| Mu | |
| The crows go kaa-kaa, the sparrows, chuu-chuu | |
| Two thirds is with the Unborn | |
| Looking for enlightenment | |
| No delusion, no enlightenment | |
| Water and ice | |
| Stopping thoughts | |
| The mirror | |
| Fire is hot | |
| Be stupid! | |
| Smoking | |
| No such thing as enlightenment | |
| Abide in the Buddha Mind | |
| When thoughts arise | |
| Letting things take care of themselves | |
| HOGO (Instruction) | p. 88 |
| Duality | |
| The dog and the chicken | |
| Farming with the Buddha Mind | |
| The travelers | |
| Parents | |
| Becoming an expert at delusion | |
| The living Buddha Mind | |
| The "teetotaler" | |
| Suppression is delusion too | |
| Right now | |
| Sleeping and waking | |
| Sendai | |
| The place of the Unborn | |
| Letting go | |
| Just as you are | |
| Not even a trace | |
| Kantaro's question | |
| Josen | |
| The gambler | |
| Miracles | |
| A visiting monk | |
| Being/nonbeing | |
| Why are we born? | |
| The one who sees and hears | |
| The woman afraid of thunder | |
| Bereavement | |
| Blinding your eyes | |
| Everything is smoothly managed | |
| Where do you go? | |
| The golden ball | |
| Thinking | |
| Women | |
| The merchant's dream | |
| It's fine just to feel that way | |
| Using the three inches | |
| Koans | |
| The great doubt | |
| Is this buddha? | |
| Layman Chozen | |
| The craftsman's dilemma | |
| The angry abbot | |
| When I first began to search | |
| All the difference of heaven and earth | |
| Watch where you're going | |
| The proof | |
| True acceptance | |
| My old illness | |
| Seven out of ten | |
| The monk Zeshin | |
| From the Gyogo Ryakki | p. 119 |
| Suspicion | |
| Handling delinquents | |
| The missing paper | p. 119 |
| Poems | |
| Chinese Poems | p. 122 |
| Japanese Poems | p. 124 |
| Letters | p. 133 |
| Letter from Umpo and Bankei's reply | |
| Letter to Sasaki Nobutsugu | |
| Letter to Yosen | |
| Letter to Rintei | |
| Letter to Lady Naga | |
| Instruction for the Layman Gesso | |
| "Words and Deeds" (Miscellaneous Materials) | p. 140 |
| Bankei's childhood | |
| The priest's Fudo | |
| At the post station | |
| Bankei faces death | |
| Among the beggars | |
| The missing coins | |
| The Confucians | |
| The rich man's wife | |
| The wolf | |
| The steward's invitation | |
| Heaven and hell | |
| From your own mouth | |
| Genshin's thousand buddhas | |
| Offerings | |
| Counting | |
| Soen's special teaching | |
| Positive and negative | |
| Layman Gesso's runny nose | |
| The thief | |
| Bankei and the stingy monk | |
| The samurai's fan | |
| Bankei's "no rules" | |
| Chokei's seven cushions | |
| The fencing master | |
| Nanryu's place | |
| The rays of light | |
| As you are is it! | |
| Settei's medicine | |
| Shopping for the best | |
| The Confucian's question | |
| Waste paper/clean paper | |
| Bankei's natural method | |
| Bankei's night sermon | |
| The old tree | |
| Bankei and the blind man | |
| Hachiroemon | |
| Notes | p. 165 |
| Translator's Notes | p. 188 |
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