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The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred The True Dharma Eye Zen Master Dōgen’s THREE HUNDRED KŌANS WITH COMMENTARY AND VERSE BY John Daido Loori TRANSLATED BY Kazuaki Tanahashi and John Daido Loori Shambhala BOSTON & LONDON 2011 Shambhala Publications, Inc. Horticultural Hall 300 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 www.shambhala.com © 2005 by John Daido Loori Cover art: Side View Daruma by Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1769). Used with permission of the Gitter-Yelen Collection. Cover design: © Diana Coe/ko Design Studio All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Library of Congress catalogues the previous edition of this book as follows: Dōgen, 1200–1253. [Shōbō genzō sanbyakusoku. English] The true dharma eye: Zen Master Dogen’s three hundred koans / with commentary and verse by John Daido Loori; translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi and John Daido Loori. p. cm. eISBN 978-0-8348-2311-2 ISBN 978-1-59030-465-5 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-59030-465-5 (paperback) 1. Koan—Early works to 1800. I. Loori, John Daido. II. Tanahashi, Kazuaki, 1933– III. Title. BQ9449.D654.S5331715 2005 294.3′85—dc22 2005007961 Dedicated with deep gratitude to our dharma ancestors, and with deep confidence to the new Western generations Contents Acknowledgments Translator’s Note Introduction by John Daido Loori Prologue: Dropping Off Body and Mind Eihei Dōgen’s Preface 1. Qingyuan’s Whisk 2. Baizhang Remains Seated 3. Nanquan’s “Water Buffalo” 4. Mazu’s “Heart Sūtra” 5. Layman Pangyun’s Awakening 6. Master Langye’s “Original Purity” 7. Yangshan’s “It’s Not That There Is No Enlightenment” 8. Nanyue Polishes a Brick 9. Minister Peixiu Sees a Portrait 10. Qingyuan’s “Come Closer” 11. Zhaozhou’s “Losing the Mind in Confusion” 12. Dongshan’s “Going Beyond Buddha” 13. Touzi’s Moon 14. Yangshan’s “Dharma Positions” 15. Xuansha’s “One Bright Pearl” 16. Changsha’s “Returning to Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth” 17. Xiangyan’s Great Enlightenment 18. Nanquan and the Land Deity 19. “Ordinary Mind Is the Way” 20. Changsha’s “Stop Illusory Thinking” 21. Panshan’s “Cut a Fine Piece” 22. Puhua’s Bell Song 23. Yangshan’s “High and Low” 24. Dasui’s “Great Kalpa Fire” 25. The Master’s Portrait 26. The National Teacher’s “Pure Dharma Body” 27. Linji’s Enlightenment 28. “Dragon Howling in a Withered Tree” 29. Daowu Won’t Say 30. Caoshan’s “No Change” 31. Deshan’s Thirty Blows 32. Taiyuan Fans Himself 33. Caoshan’s “Falling and Rising” 34. The World-Honored One’s “Intimate Speech” 35. Touzi’s “Harmonizing the Ten Bodies” 36. Deshan’s “Assembly on Vulture Peak” 37. Yuezhou’s “Path to Nirvāṇa” 38. Xuefeng’s “Turning the Dharma Wheel” 39. Jingqing’s “Buddhadharma at the New Year” 40. Sansheng’s Blindness 41. Shitou’s “Ask the Pillar” 42. Jingqing’s Thirty Blows 43. Guizong Cuts a Snake 44. Guishan’s “I Have Already Exhausted Myself for You” 45. Xuansha’s “The Three Vehicles and the Twelve Divisions of Sūtras” 46. Zhaozhou’s Four Gates 47. Guishan’s “Do Not Betray Others” 48. Xuansha’s Blank Letter 49. Dongshan’s “Top of the Mountain” 50. Shilou’s Shortcomings 51. Niutou and the Fourth Ancestor 52. Sansheng’s “Golden Fish” 53. Shitou’s “Great and Small Canon” 54. Baizhang’s Second Visit to Mazu 55. Dongshan’s “Dharma Bodies” 56. Guishan’s Gift 57. Where Wisdom Cannot Reach 58. Shishuang’s “Nothing Is Concealed” 59. Huineng Doesn’t Understand 60. Xuansha’s “Seamless Stūpa” 61. Guishan’s “Exploring Spiritual Powers” 62. Dongshan’s “Disclosing Mind, Disclosing Nature” 63. Baofu’s “Point of Attainment” 64. Nanquan’s “Content and Container” 65. Guizong’s “One-Flavor Zen” 66. Yaoshan’s “Birth of a Calf” 67. Zhaozhou’s “Wash Your Bowls” 68. Yangshan Plants His Hoe 69. Families Use It Daily 70. Caoshan’s “Raising Livestock” 71. Cuiwei’s “Meaning” 72. Dongshan’s “Not-Buddha” 73. Mimoyan’s Pitchfork 74. Zhaozhou Rotates the Canon 75. Yantou’s “Sit Still” 76. “No-Mind Is the Way” 77. Disclosing Is Not as Good as Practice 78. Dongshan’s “Where Is the Fault?” 79. Yaoshan’s Discourse 80. Zhaozhou’s Buddha 81. Yunmen’s “Everyone’s Light” 82. Dongshan’s “No Grass” 83. Yunyan Sweeps the Ground 84. Yunyan’s “Not a Single Word” 85. Shishuang’s “A Single Hair Pierces Innumerable Holes” 86. Yaoshan’s “This Buddha, That Buddha” 87. Nanquan’s “Nothing Special” 88. Lingzhao’s “Bright and Clear” 89. Shishuang’s “This Side and That Side” 90. Jiashan Sees the Ferryman 91. Huangbo’s Single Staff 92. Teaching and Not Teaching 93. Dongshan’s “Each Stitch” 94. Yunju’s “Place That Cannot Be Contained” 95. Buddha’s “Teachings of a Lifetime” 96. Puhua Knocks Over a Table 97. Shushan and the Stone Workers 98. Dongshan’s Illness 99. Layman Pangyun’s Stringless Lute 100. Yunmen’s “Dharma Body” 101. Nanyue’s “It’s Not Like Something” 102. Baizhang and the Fox 103. Yangshan’s Succession 104. Deshan’s Enlightenment 105. The Hands and Eyes of Great Compassion 106. Tianhuang’s “Essential Dharma Gate” 107. Yunmen’s “Two Types of Sickness” 108. Mazu’s “Meaning of the Ancestor’s Coming from India” 109. Xuefeng’s “Size of the World” 110. Guishan Tests His Students 111. Fayan’s “Eye of the Way” 112. The Three Worlds Are Mind 113. Baofu’s Blocking of the Eyes, Ears, and Mind 114. Zhaozhou’s Dog 115. Dagui’s “No Buddha Nature” 116. Nanyue’s “Mirror Cast as a Buddha Image” 117. Jinhua’s Ancient Mirror 118. Yangshan Can’t Say It 119. Zhaozhou’s Cypress Tree 120. Priest Jin Asks about the Nature of Life 121. Mayu Locks the Gate 122. Fayan’s Fire God 123. Mayu’s “Nature of the Wind” 124. Monastic Shen’s Fish and Net 125. Caoshan’s Dharmakāya 126. Dadian Remains Silent 127. Mañjuśrī’s “Three Three” 128. Baizhang’s “Gate of Essential Nature” 129. Yaoshan’s “Nonthinking” 130. Yangshan’s Karmic Consciousness 131. Anguo’s “The Master’s Flesh Is Still Warm” 132. Boshui’s “Sound Itself Is No Sound” 133. The Woman of Daishan 134. Guishan’s “Is It the Weather or the Person That Is Cold?” 135. Zhaozhou’s Brick and Jewel 136. Zhaozhou Asks about the Great Death 137. Xuefeng’s “Not a Snowflake Remains” 138. Zhaozhou’s “Brightness and Darkness” 139. Yangshan’s “Entering Nirvāṇa” 140. Dayi’s “No Mind” 141. The World-Honored One Ascends the Teaching Seat 142. Yangshan’s Discourse 143. Touzi’s Clarification of the Ancestors’ Intention 144. Xuansha’s “Twenty Blows of the Stick” 145. Deshan’s “Neither Asking nor Not Asking” 146. The Sixth Ancestor’s “Your Mind Is Moving” 147. Linji’s “True Person of No Rank” 148. Dongshan’s “Teachings of the Insentient” 149. Xuefeng’s Rice Field 150. Mazu’s “Raising the Eyebrows and Blinking the Eyes” 151. Yaoshan’s “Precious Treasure of the Way” 152. The National Teacher’s Stone Lion 153. Layman Pangyun’s “Power-Attaining Phrase” 154. Nanquan’s Sickle 155. Lingyun’s Peach Blossoms 156. Changqing’s Clarification of Understanding 157. Guishan Laughs Twice 158. Yunmen’s “Each and Every Particle Samādhi” 159. Nanyang’s Ten Bodies 160. Prince Nalakuvara’s Original Body 161. The Mill Worker’s Staff 162. Yunmen’s “One Hundred Grasses” 163. Xuansha Builds a Seamless Monument 164. Linji’s “Host and Guest” 165. The World-Honored One Did Not Speak a Word 166. Yunmen’s “Where Are They?” 167. Linji’s “Blind Ass” 168. Yangshan’s “Inconceivable, Clear, Bright Mind” 169. Mahākāśyapa and the Flagpole 170. An Outsider Questions the Buddha 171. Fayan’s “Not Knowing” 172. Dongshan’s “Three Pounds of Flax” 173. The Emperor and the Buddha’s Relics 174. Buddha’s Begging Bowl 175. Jianyuan’s “Matter before the Seven Buddhas” 176. Xuefeng’s “Thirst and Starvation” 177. Fayan’s “Single Body Revealed” 178. Linji Sees Huangbo Reading a Sūtra 179. Shishuang’s “When All the Doors Are Closed” 180. Yantou’s “Original Permanence” 181. Nanquan Kills a Cat 182. Baizhang’s Wild Geese 183. Xuefeng Checks Out the Hermit 184. Yunyan’s Lion 185. Nanquan’s “Storehouse of the Mani Jewel” 186. Heshan Beats the Drum 187. Jinfeng’s Rice Cake 188. Guizong Holds Up a Fist 189. Qingxi’s “When a Thief Breaks In” 190. Mazu’s “Meaning of the Ancestor’s Coming” 191. Shitou’s “Not Attaining, Not Knowing” 192. Changqing’s “Seeing Form, Seeing Mind” 193. Shishuang’s “Transcendent Wisdom That Meets the Eye” 194. Caoshan’s “Myriad Things” 195. Zhaozhou’s “Dao” 196. Longya’s “Thief in an Empty Room” 197. Master Deng’s “Voice like Thunder” 198. Dongshan and Shenshan Cross the River 199. Dongshan’s Essential Path 200. Ruiyan’s “What Kind of Moment Is Now?” 201. Bodhidharma’s “Skin, Flesh, Bones, and Marrow” 202. “No Zen Masters” 203. Xuansha’s “Person of Three Disabilities” 204. Qinglin’s “Dead Snake on the Path” 205. Longya Passes the Meditation Brace 206. The Essential Matter 207. Linji’s “Not Studying Sūtras, Not Studying Zen” 208. Yunmen’s “End of the Ninety-Day Training Period” 209. Guishan’s Water Buffalo 210. The National Teacher’s “Original Body of Vairocana” 211. Caoshan’s “Love between Parent and Child” 212. Dizang Plants the Fields 213. The Bodhisattva of No Miraculous Power 214. Fengxue’s “Particle of Dust” 215. Tiantong’s Precise Instruction 216. Linji’s “Have You Sold It All?” 217. Linji’s “One Blow” 218.
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