Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans

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The Book of Equanimity contains the first-ever comprehensive English commentaries on one of the most beloved classic collections of Zen teaching stories (koans), making them relevant to today's spiritual seekers and Zen students.
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Overview

The Book of Equanimity contains the first-ever comprehensive English commentaries on one of the most beloved classic collections of Zen teaching stories (koans), making them relevant to today's spiritual seekers and Zen students.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780861713875
  • Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
  • Publication date: 7/10/2005
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 624,581
  • Product dimensions: 6.12 (w) x 9.08 (h) x 1.01 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
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 Seepoo'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 washbasin 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 avatamasaka 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
App Masters referenced in the book of equanimity 321

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