Table of Contents
Illustrations xi
Preface and Acknowledgments 1
Introduction 7
Notes to the Reader 23
Part 1 Daily Chants
Awakening Together 29
Four All-Embracing Vows 30
Ten-Line Life-Affirming Sutra of Avalokiteshvara 31
Sutra on the Heart of Realizing "Wisdom Beyond Wisdom 32
Meal Chant 34
Robe Verse 35
Three Refuges 36
Metta 37
Great Compassionate Heart Dharani 38
Wondrous Auspicious Dharani for Averting Calamities 39
Dedication 40
Buddha Ancestors 41
Female Buddha Ancestors 44
Atonement 47
Reminder 48
Part 2 Chants for Events
Opening the Sutra Verse 51
Verse for Hearing the Mallet 52
Setting Out the Bowls 53
Invocation 55
Offering Food for Spirits 56
Raising the Bowl 57
Offering Rinse Water 58
Verse of Pure Practice 59
Universal Precepts of the Seven Original Buddhas 60
Maintaining the Precepts 61
Admonition 62
Part 3 Enlightenment Poems
Engraving Trust in the Heart 67
Song of Realizing the Way 73
Being One and Many 85
Song of the Grass Hut 88
The jewel Mirror Awareness 90
The Point of Zazen 95
In Praise of Zazen 96
Part 4 Prose Chants for Study
Recommending Zazen to All People 101
On the Endeavor of the Way 105
Actualizing the Fundamental Point 111
Part 5 The Texts Illuminated
Daily Chants 119
Awakening Together 119
Four All-Embracing Vows 121
Ten-Line Life-Affirming Sutra of Avalokiteshvara 123
Sutra on the Heart of Realizing Wisdom Beyond Wisdom 126
Meal Chant 130
Robe Verse 132
Three Refuges 134
Metta 135
Great Compassionate Heart Dharani 136
Wondrous Auspicious Dharani for Averting Calamities 140
Dedication 142
Buddha Ancestors 143
Female Buddha Ancestors 144
Atonement 145
Reminder 147
Chants for Events 149
Opening the Sutra Verse 149
Verse for Hearing the Mallet 150
Setting Out the Bowls 152
Invocation 153
Offering Food for Spirits 155
Raising the Bowl 156
Offering Rinse Water 157
Verse of Pure Practice 159
Universal Precepts of the Seven Original Buddhas 160
Maintaining the Precepts 161
Admonition 162
Enlightenment Poems 165
Engraving Trust in the Heart 165
Song of Realizing the Way 167
Being One and Many 174
Song of the Grass Hut 176
Song of the Jewel Mirror Awareness 176
The Point of Zazen 179
In Praise of Zazen 180
Prose Chants for Study 183
Recommending Zazen to All People 183
On the Endeavor of the Way 183
Actualizing the Fundamental Point 186
Notes 187
Selected Bibliography 189
