Dharma Talks on the Mumonkan
Mumonkan, Case 35, Chien and her Soul are Separated, Part 2
Ten thousand things, ten thousand blessings! Is this one? Is this two? ...
Mumonkan, Case 35, Chien and her Soul are Separated, Part 1
Chien and her soul were separated; which is the real Chien? Based on an old Chinese folk tale ...
The Sixth Chinese Ancestor, Daikan Enô, from the Thirty-third Case of the Denkôroku, Compiled by Keizan Zenji
The sound of the mortar is high outside the empty emerald-blue (sky). The white moon is tossed in the winnow of the clouds – deep and pure is the night. ...
Case 29, Enô’s “Not the Wind; Not the Flag”
“Gentlemen! It is not the wind that moves; it is not the flag that moves; it is your mind that moves.” ...
Mumonkan, Case #1, Joshu’s Mu
The Mumonkan, in contrast with the poetically lofty Hekiganroku and Shoyoroku, was written in a style more direct and down to earth, and featured the fearsomely direct "Mu" as its first koan, ...
Mumonkan, Case #2, Hyakujô and the Fox
CASE Once when Hyakujô gave a series of talks, a certain old man was always there listening together with the monks. When they left, he would leave too. One day, however, he ...
Mumonkan, Case #6, The World-Honoured One Twirls a Flower
CASE Once, in ancient times, when the World-Honored One was at Mount Grdhrakūta to give a talk, he twirled a flower before his assembled disciples. All were silent. Only Mahakashyapa broke into ...
Mumonkan, Case #7, Joshu’s “Wash Your Bowl”
THE CASE A monk said to Jôshu, “I have just entered this monastery. Please give me instruction.” Jôshu said, “Have you eaten your rice gruel?” The monk said, “Yes, I have.” Jôshu ...
Case #26, Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds
Hôgen points you to a realization of the unity of essential sameness and difference, of the relative and the absolute, form and emptiness. ...