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About this book
The classic guide for Zen students pursuing the true way.
"Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha-statue, blows smoke in its face and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?" This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn was fond of posing to his American students who attended his Zen centers.
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a delightful, irreverent, and often hilariously funny living record of the dialogue between Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and his American students. Consisting of dialogues, stories, formal Zen interviews, Dharma speeches, and letters using the Zen Master's actual words in spontaneous, living interaction, this book is a fresh presentation of the Zen teaching method of "instant dialogue" between Master and student which, through the use of astonishment and paradox, leads to an understanding of ultimate reality.
"Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha-statue, blows smoke in its face and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?" This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn was fond of posing to his American students who attended his Zen centers.
Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a delightful, irreverent, and often hilariously funny living record of the dialogue between Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and his American students. Consisting of dialogues, stories, formal Zen interviews, Dharma speeches, and letters using the Zen Master's actual words in spontaneous, living interaction, this book is a fresh presentation of the Zen teaching method of "instant dialogue" between Master and student which, through the use of astonishment and paradox, leads to an understanding of ultimate reality.
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Table of contents
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Book Opening
- 1. Zen Is Understanding Yourself
- 2. The Zen Circle
- 3. My Dharma Is Too Expensive
- 4. Advice to a Beginner
- 5. Inside, Outside
- 6. A Child Asks About Death
- 7. Who Needs a Zen Master
- 8. You Are Attached!
- 9. About the Heart Sutra
- 10. Not Difficult, Not Easy
- 11. A Dharma Speech
- 12. What Is One Plus Two?
- 13. What to Do About Noise
- 14. You Must Become Completely Crazy
- 15. The Story of Ko Bong
- 16. How Can the Buddha Be Smiling?
- 17. Apples and Oranges
- 18. Kong-an Blues
- 19. The 84,000 Levels of Enlightenment
- 20. What Is Freedom?
- 21. The Great Treasure
- 22. The Moon of Clear Mind
- 23. What Have You Brought Here?
- 24. Enlightened and Unenlightened Are Empty Names
- 25. Why We Chant
- 26. A Dharma Speech
- 27. The Story of Won Hyo
- 28. Porcupines in Rat-Holes
- 29. Practicing Zen
- 30. It Is Your Mind That Is Moving
- 31. Bodhisattva Attachment
- 32. Five Kinds of Zen
- 33. The Color of Snow
- 34. Don't-Know Mind, Continued
- 35. Zen and Tantra
- 36. The 10,000 Questions Are One Question
- 37. Buddha Is Grass Shoes
- 38. Three Interviews
- 39. When the Lights Go Off, What?
- 40. Testing the Mind
- 41. What Is Death?
- 42. Wanting Enlightenment
- 43. The True Way for Women
- 44. Can You See Your Eyes?
- 45. Special Medicine and Big Business
- 46. Miracles
- 47. A Dharma Speech
- 48. A Little Thinking, A Little Sparring
- 49. No-Attainment Is Attainment
- 50. True Sitting Zen
- 51. Samadhi vs. Satori
- 52. Lin-Chi's KATZ
- 53. Nirvana and Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi
- 54. Zen and the Arts
- 55. Plastic Flowers, Plastic Mind
- 56. True Emptiness
- 57. You Must Wake Up!
- 58. More Ashes on the Buddha
- 59. The Story of Su Tung-p'o
- 60. What Nature Is Saying to You
- 61. It
- 62. Small Love and Big Love
- 63. Does the Cat Have Buddha-Nature?
- 64. Out of the Depths
- 65. Funny
- 66. The Story of Kyong Ho
- 67. Bodhisattva Sin
- 68. A Dharma Speech
- 69. The True Way
- 70. Sex Mind=Zen Mind?
- 71. Keen-Eyed Lions and Blind Dogs
- 72. Original Sound, Original Body
- 73. The Story of Mang Gong
- 74. Mang Gong Explains His KATZ
- 75. The Transmission of No-Mind
- 76. Inside the Cow's Belly
- 77. Today Is Buddha's Birthday. The Sun Is Shining.
- 78. Dok Sahn and His Stick
- 79. All Things Are Your Teachers
- 80. Who Makes One?
- 81. What Is Your Star?
- 82. The Story of Sul
- 83. Dialogue with Swami X
- 84. Big Mistake
- 85. Language-Route and Dharma-Route
- 86. The Tathagata
- 87. Bodhidharma and I
- 88. Correspondence with an Ordained American Lawyer
- 89. Saving All People
- 90. Dialogue at Tal Mah Sah
- 91. The Boat Monk
- 92. When the Bell Is Rung, Stand Up
- 93. The Story of Mun Ik
- 94. What Did You Say?
- 95. Much Ado About Nothing
- 96. An Ambush in the Fields of Dharma
- 97. Un-Mun's Short-Answer Zen
- 98. Ko Bong Explains a Poem
- 99. The Story of Seung Sahn Soen-sa
- 100. What Is Love?