Table of Contents

Introduction xiii

The Mind Monarch 1
Five Types of Meditation Method 4
Let Your Mind Be Free 5
No Performance 6
The Normal Mind Is the Way 7
The Body of Reality 12
Get the Root 13
Verbal Teachings 14
Inward and Outward Views 15
Seeking 16
Liberation in All Places 17
A Method of Awakening 18
This Abundant Light 20
Mystic Understanding 21
Absolute Truth 22
Practice 23
Formless Mind 24
Spirituality 25
Liberation 26
The Business of Zen 27
Evaluating Teachers 28
The Essential Nature 29
A Priceless Jewel 30
Free-Flowing 31
Independence 32
Degeneration of Zen 33
The Normal Mind 34
No Fooling 35
Natural 36
The Ocean of Knowledge 37
Your Own Experience 38
No Thing 39
The Reality of Mind 40
Wide Open 41
The Great Task 42
The Object of Investigation 43
Names and Actualities 44
What Is Disturbing You? 45
The Eye of the Heart 46
The Normal Mind 47
Excess 48
The Pivotal Point 49
What Thing? 50
Truth and Words 51
The Cause of Misery 52
Eyes for Study 53
No Sectarian Style 54
Look into Yourself 55
Whoring for Appearances 57
Cease and Desist 58
Facing Suchness 59
The Primordial 60
Where Will You Seek? 61
Straight and True 62
Waking Up 63
Heart of Hearts 64
Eyes and Feet 65
Testing Seekers 66
Human Sentiment 67
Individual Realization 68
Preparedness 69
The Pure Luminous Body 70
Removing Bonds 71
Only Mind 72
Truth and the Way 73
Stop 74
Warped Understanding 75
Absolute and Relative 76
Concepts and Emotions 77
Original Zen 78
The Path 79
A Shortcut 80
Avoiding Residual Trouble 81
Six Roads 82
Self-Defeat 83
The Living Eye 84
Looking for and Looking at 85
The Black Pearl 86
Fabrications 87
The Blind Leading the Blind 88
This Mind 89
An Inexhaustible Treasury 90
The Experience of the True Human Being 91
Moon and Clouds 92
One True Source 93
Direct Experience 94
Adepts and Showoffs 95
Noncompetitiveness 96
Understanding 97
Going Beyond 98
Zen and Gender 99
Charlatans 100
Deterioration 101
The Impassable Barrier 102
No Actual Doctrine 103
True Speech 104
Pay Attention 105
Quintessential Zen 107
Self-Obstruction 108
Stand on Your Own 109
The Realm of Buddhahood 111
The Failure of Zen 112
The Normal Course 113
The Mind 114
Inside and Outside 115
Action and Stillness 116
Discovery of Mind 117
Daily Activities 118
The Path and the End 119
The Pivot of the Zen Gate 120
Worldly Affairs 121
Awaken on Your Own 122
The Great Way 123
Buddhism and Human Sentiment 124
Thorough Cooking 125
Nominal Zen Study 126
Life and Death 127
Daily Activities 128
Clarifying Mind 129
Three Types of Learning 130
The Eyes for the Journey 132
Where Is the Problem? 133
The Fire of Zen 134
Turning Doctrine into Sickness 135
Don't Cling to the Cushion 136
The Inexhaustible Treasury 137
The Limit of Effort 138
Three Barriers 139
Study the Living Word 140
The Scenery of the Original Ground 141
Fulfillment 142
Delusion and Enlightenment 143
Expedients 145
Directed Effort 146
Liberation and Blockage 147
Nameless and Traceless 149
Collecting Conversation Pieces 150
Total Zen 151
A Method of Stopping 152
Turning Attention around to Look Within 154
Looking into a Saying 155
No Arrangement 156
Reality and Imitations 157
Sharp but Inconspicuous 159
Functions of Zen 160
No Dogma 161
Beyond Measure 162
Curing Madness 163
The Fundamental 164
Mistaking a Thief for Your Son 165
A Place to Start 166
The Subtle Path 167
Awareness Itself 168
Stopping and Seeing 169
The Great Way 172
The Original Face 174
Real Truth 175
Genuine Seekers 177
Clarity and Calmness 178
Discovering the Light of Mind 179
Two Tests 180
Pure Eyes 182
Natural Real Buddha Nature 183
The Spiritual Light 185
Effort in Study 187
Participation 188
True Mind 189
Empty and Quiet 191
Avoiding Foxes and Dogs 193

List of Zen Masters 195
Further Reading 199