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The Shobogenzo is a collection of writings by the First Japanese Soto Zen Buddhist Ancestor, Great Master Eihei Dogen, based primarily on formal Dharma talks which he gave to his disciples at various times between 1233 and his death twenty years later at age fifty-three. Most of the texts... read more

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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Translator’s General Introduction
1. Bendowa: A Discourse on Doing One’s Utmost in Practicing the Way of the Buddha
2. Makahannya-haramitsu: On the Great Wisdom That Is Beyond Discriminatory Thought
3. Genjo Koan: On the Spiritual Question as It Manifests Before Your Very Eyes
4. Ikka Myoju: On ‘The One Bright Pearl’
5. Juundo-shiki: On Conduct Appropriate for the Auxiliary Cloud Hall
6. Soku Shin Ze Butsu: On ‘Your Very Mind Is Buddha’
7. Senjo: On Washing Yourself Clean
8. Keisei Sanshoku: On ‘The Rippling of a Valley Stream, the Contour of a Mountain’
9. Shoaku Makusa: On ‘Refrain from All Evil Whatsoever’
10. Raihai Tokuzui: On ‘Respectful Bowing Will Secure for You the Very Marrow of the Way’
11. Uji: On ‘Just for the Time Being, Just for a While, For the Whole of Time is the Whole of Existence’
12. Den’e: On the Transmission of the Kesa
13. Sansui Kyo: On the Spiritual Discourses of the Mountains and the Water
14. Busso: On the Buddhas and the Ancestors
15. Shisho: On the Record of Transmission
16. Hokke Ten Hokke: On ‘The Flowering of the Dharma Sets the Dharma’s Flowering in Motion’
17. Shin Fukatoku: On ‘The Mind Cannot Be Held Onto’ (Oral version) Translator’s Addendum to Chapter 17
18. Shin Fukatoku: On ‘The Mind Cannot Be Grasped’ (Written version)
19. Kokyo: On the Ancient Mirror
20. Kankin: On Reading Scriptures
21. Bussho: On Buddha Nature
22. Gyobutsu Iigi: On the Everyday Behavior of a Buddha Doing His Practice
23. Bukkyo: On What the Buddha Taught
24. Jinzu: On the Marvelous Spiritual Abilities
25. Daigo: On the Great Realization
26. Zazen Shin: On Wanshi’s ‘Kindly Advice for Doing Seated Meditation’
27. Butsu Kojo Ji: On Experiencing That Which Is Above and Beyond Buddhahood
28. Immo: On That Which Comes Like This
29. Gyoji: On Ceaseless Practice
30. Kaiin Zammai: On ‘The Meditative State That Bears the Seal of the Ocean’
31. Juki: On Predicting Buddhahood
32. Kannon: On Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
33. Arakan: On Arhats
34. Hakujushi: On the Cypress Tree
35. Komyo: On the Brightness of the Light
36. Shinjin Gakudo: On Learning the Way Through Body and Mind
37. Muchu Setsumu: On a Vision Within a Vision and a Dream Within a Dream
38. Dotoku: On Expressing What One Has Realized
39. Gabyo: On ‘A Picture of a Rice Cake’
40. Zenki: On Functioning Fully
41. Sesshin Sessho: On Expressing One’s True Nature by Expressing One’s Intent
42. Darani: On Invocations: What We Offer to the Buddhas and Ancestors
43. Tsuki: On the Moon as One’s Excellent Nature
44. Kuge: On the Flowering of the Unbounded
45. Kobusshin: On What the Mind of an Old Buddha Is
46. Bodaisatta Shishobo: On the Four Exemplary Acts of a Bodhisattva
47. Katto: On The Vines That Entangle: the Vines That Embrace
48. Sangai Yuishin: On ‘The Threefold World Is Simply Your Mind’
49. Shoho Jisso: On the Real Form of All Thoughts and Things
50. Bukkyo: On Buddhist Scriptures
51. Butsudo: On the Buddha’s Way
52. Mitsugo: On the Heart-to-Heart Language of Intimacy
53. Hossho: On the True Nature of All Things
54. Mujo Seppo: On the Dharma That Nonsentient Beings Express
55. Semmen: On Washing Your Face
56. Zazengi: On the Model for Doing Meditation
57. Baika: On the Plum Blossom
58. Jippo: On the Whole Universe in All Ten Directions
59. Kembutsu: On Encountering Buddha
60. Henzan: On Seeking One’s Master Far and Wide
61. Ganzei: On the Eye of a Buddha
62. Kajo: On Everyday Life
63. Ryugin: On the Roar of a Dragon
64. Shunju: On Spring and Autumn: Warming Up and Cooling Down
65. Soshi Seirai I: On Why Our Ancestral Master Came from the West
66. Udonge: On the Udumbara Blossom
67. Hotsu Mujo Shin: On Giving Rise to the Unsurpassed Mind
68. Nyorai Zenshin: On the Universal Body of the Tathagata
69. Zammai-o Zammai: On the Meditative State That Is the Lord of Meditative States
70. Sanjushichihon Bodai Bumpo: On the Thirty-Seven Methods of Training for Realizing Enlightenment
71. Temborin: On Turning the Wheel of the Dharma
72. Jisho Zammai: On the Meditative State of One’s True Nature
73. Daishugyo: On the Great Practice
74. Menju: On Conferring the Face-to-Face Transmission
75. Koku: On the Unbounded
76. Hatsu’u: On a Monk’s Bowl
77. Ango: On the Summer Retreat
78. Tashintsu: On Reading the Minds and Hearts of Others
79. O Saku Sendaba: On ‘The King Requests Something from Sindh’
80. Jikuin Mon: On Instructions for Monks in the Kitchen Hall
81. Shukke: On Leaving Home Life Behind
82. Shukke Kudoku: On the Spiritual Merits of Leaving Home Life Behind
83. Jukai: On Receiving the Precepts
84. Kesa Kudoku: On the Spiritual Merits of the Kesa
85. Hotsu Bodai Shin: On Giving Rise to the Enlightened Mind
86. Kuyo Shobutsu: On Making Venerative Offerings to Buddhas
87. Kie Bupposo Ho: On Taking Refuge in the Treasures of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha
88. Jinshin Inga: On the Absolute Certainty of Cause and Effect
89. Sanji Go: On Karmic Retribution in the Three Temporal Periods
90. Shime: On ‘The Four Horses’
91. Shizen Biku: On the Monk in the Fourth Meditative State
92. Ippyakuhachi Homyomon: On the One Hundred and Eight Gates to What the Dharma Illumines
93. Shoji: On Life and Death
94. Doshin: On the Mind’s Search for Truth
95. Yui Butsu Yo Butsu: On ‘Each Buddha on His Own, Together with All Buddhas’
96. Hachi Dainingaku: On the Eight Realizations of a Great One
Glossary
Appendix of Names
About the Translator

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Eihei Dogen (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Reverand Hubert Nearman OBC (Translator)
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