Table of Contents
Foreword
by Taizan Maezumi Roshi xi
Preface
xv
Introduction
xvii
Guide to Chinese Pronunciation
xxxi
Original
Preface to the Blue Cliff Record
xxxiii
THE
BLUE CLIFF RECORD
1.
The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths 1
2.
The Ultimate Path is Without Difficulty 10
3.
Master Ma Is Unwell 18
4.
Te Shan Carrying His Bundle 22
5.
Hsueh Feng's Grain of Rice 31
6.
Yun Men's Every Day is a Good Day 37
7.
Hui Ch'ao Asks about Buddha 46
8.
Ts'ui Yen's Eyebrows 53
9.
Chao Chou's Four Gates 59
10.
Mu Chou's Theiving Phoney 66
11.
Huang Po's Gobblers of Dregs 72
12.
Tung Shan's Three Pounds of Hemp 81
13.
Pa Ling's Snow in a Silver Bowl 88
14.
Yun Men's Appropriate Statement 94
15.
Yun Men's Upside-Down Statement 98
16.
Ching Ch'ings's Man in the Weeds 104
17.
Hsiang Lin's Meaning of the Coming from the West 110
18.
National Teacher Chung's Seamless Monument 115
19.
Chu Ti's One-Finger Ch'an 123
20.
Lung Ya's Meaning of the Coming from the West 129
21.
Chih Men's Lotus Flower, Lotus Leaves 139
22.
Hseuh Feng's Turtle-Nosed Snake 144
23.
Pao Fu's Summit of the Mystic Peak 154
24.
Kuei Shan and Iron Grindstone Liu 159
25.
The Hermit of Lotus Flower Peak Holds up His Staff 164
26.
Pai Chang's Sitting Alone on Ta Hsiung Mountain 172
27.
Yun Men's The Body Exposed, The Golden Wind 176
28.
Nan Ch'uan's Truth That's Never Been Spoken 181
29.
Ta Sui's It Goes Along with It 187
30.
Chao Chou's Big Turnips 191
31.
Ma Ku Carrying his Ring-Staff 194
32.
Elder Ting Stands Motionless 202
33.
Ministry President Ch'en Sees Tzu Fu 206
34.
Yang Shan Asks "Where Have You Come From?" 211
35.
The Dialogue of Manjusri and Wu Cho 216
36.
Ch'ang Sha Wandering in the Mountains 221
37.
P'an Shan's There Is Nothing in the World 226
38.
Feng Hsueh's Workings of the Iron Ox 231
39.
Yun Men's Flowering Hedge 240
40.
Nan Ch'uan's It's like a Dream 244
41.
Chao Chou's Man Who Has Died the Great Death 249
42.
Layman P'ang's Good Snowflakes 253
43.
Tung Shan's No Cold or Heat 258
44.
Ho Shan's Knowing How to Beat the Drum 264
45.
Chao Chou's Seven-Pound Cloth Shirt 270
46.
Ching Ch'ing's Sound of Raindrops 275
47.
Yun Men's Six Do Not Take It In 279
48.
Turning Over the Tea Kettle at Chao Ch'ing 284
49.
San Sheng's Golden Fish Who Has Passed through the Net 290
50.
Yun Men's Every Atom Samadhi 294
51.
Hsueh Feng's What Is It? 297
52.
Chao Chou Lets Asses Cross, Lets Horses Cross 305
53.
Pai Chang's Wild Ducks 309
54.
Yun Men Extends Both Hands 34
55.
Tao Wu's Condolence Call 317
56.
Ch'in Shan's One Arrowpoint Smashes Three Barriers 324
57.
Chao Chou's Stupid Oaf 330
58.
Chao Chou Can't Expain 334
59.
Chao Chou's Why Not Quote It Fully? 337
60.
Yun Men's Staff Changes into a Dragon 341
61.
Feng Hsueh's One Atom of Dust
62.
Yun Men's Within There Is a Jewel 352
63.
Nan Ch'uan Kills a Cat 358
64.
Nan Ch'uan Questions Chao Chou 361
65.
An Outsider Questions the Buddha 364
66.
Yen T'ou's Getting Huang Ch'ao's Sword 371
67.
Mahasattva Fu Expounds the Scripture 376
68.
Yang Shan's What's Your Name? 381
69.
Nan Ch'uan's Circle 386
70.
Kuei Shan Attends on Pai Chang 391
71.
Wu Feng's Shut Up, Teacher 395
72.
Pai Chang Questions Yun Yen 398
73.
Ma Tsu's Permutations of Assertion and Denial 401
74.
Chin Niu's Rice Pail 408
75.
Wu Chiu's Unjust Beating 412
76.
Tan Hsia's Have You Eaten Yet? 418
77.
Yun Men's Cake 424
78.
Sixteen Bodhisattvas Go In to Bathe 428
79.
T'ou Tzu's All Sounds 432
80.
Chao Chou's Newborn Baby 437
81.
Yao Shan's Shooting the Elk of Elks 443
82.
Ta Lung's Hard and Fast Body of Reality 449
83.
Yun Men's Ancient Buddhas and the Pillar 454
84.
Vimalakirti's Gate of Nonduality 459
85.
The Hermit of T'ung Feng Makes a Tiger's Roar 466
86.
Yun Men's Kitchen Pantry and Main Gate 472
87.
Medicine and Disease Subdue Each Other 477
88.
Hsuan Sha's Guiding and Aiding Living Beings 482
89.
The Hands and Eyes of the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion 489
90.
Chih Men's Body of Wisdom 496
91.
Yen Kuan's Rhinoceros 501
92.
The World Honored One Ascends the Seat 506
93.
Ta Kuang Does a Dance 510
94.
The Surangama Scripture's Not Seeing 514
95.
Ch'ang Ch'ing's Three Poisons 519
96.
Chao Chou's Three Turning Words 525
97.
The Diamond Cutter Scripture's Scornful Revilement 532
98.
T'ien P'ing's Travels on Foot 539
99.
Su Tsung's Ten-Body Controller 546
100.
Pa Ling's Blown Hair Sword 554
Biographical
Supplement
559
Traditional
Teaching Devices
634
Select
Glossary of Names and Terms
642
Bibliography
647
