Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition

CHRISTOPHER IVES is Professor of Religion at the University of Puget Sound. His publications include Zen Awakening and Society, The Emptying God: A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation (co-edited with John B. Cobb Jr.), and Divine Emptiness and Historical Fullness: A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation with Masao Abe (edited volume). TOKIWA GISHIN began studying Buddhism in 1944, becoming a member of the forerunner of the F.A.S. Society. After graduation he taught English as a second language for students while studying Buddhism. He has translated into English Zen and the Fine Arts and Jueguan-lun, and into modern Japanese both a work by Hakuin and the Lankavatara sutra.

Acknowledgements Foreword; Kitahara Ryutaro Preface; Abe Masao Introduction; Yanagida Seizan I Simply Couldn't Open My Mouth Who is Pure and Direct in His Behaviour? There's Nothing Special in the Buddha-Dharma After Realizing the Great Mass of Awakening Leaving After the Summit Retreat The One True Person Without Rank Speak! Speak! The Mind-Dharma is without form and Pervades the Ten Directions You, the Follower of the Way Right Now Before my Eyes Listening to the Dharma Independent of All Things Not at all Thus I Do Not Pay Homage to the Buddha or the Patriarch True Insight The Meaning of the Patriarch's Coming From the West The Three Vehicles' Twelve Divisions of Teachings The Instant You Open Your Mouth You're Already Way Off No Dividing into Categories The Four Classifications: A General Outline The Four Classifications: First Half The Four Classifications: Second Half On the Way and at Home The Buddha-Dharma is Deep and Mysterious Endnotes Index