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Tables of Contents for Zen Essence
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Translator's Introduction
xv
Notes on Sources
xviii
Zen Master Mazu
The Normal Mind
1
1
The Root
1
1
The Oceanic Reflection
1
1
Delusion and Enlightenment
2
1
Zen Master Dazhu
Artificial Zen
3
1
Your Treasure
3
1
Zen Master Linji
True Perception and Understanding
4
1
Self-conficence
4
1
Buddha Within
4
1
No Obsessions
5
1
The Mind Ground
5
1
Understanding People
5
1
Autonomy
5
1
Spiritual Dilettantes
6
1
Labels and Objective Truth
6
1
The Free Self
6
1
No Concern
7
1
Blind Baldies
7
1
Uncritical Acceptance
7
1
Tourist Traps
7
1
Supernormal Faculties
7
1
Objective Perception and Understanding
8
1
Zen Teaching
8
1
Adding Mud to Dirt
8
1
Slavery
8
1
Movement and Stillness
9
1
Zen Master Yangshan
Zen Teaching
10
1
Deep and Shallow
10
1
The Zen Essence
10
1
Supernormal Capacities
10
1
Root and Branches
10
1
The Inner Gaze
11
1
Zen Master Fayan
False Zen Teachers
12
1
The Basis of Zen
12
1
Confusion
12
1
The Deterioration of Zen
12
1
Sectarianism
13
1
Discernment
13
1
Degenerate Zen
13
1
Principle and Fact
14
1
Subjective Judgments
14
1
Understanding and Imagination
14
1
Zen Succession
14
1
Zen Master Fenyang
The Work of a Teacher
15
1
Moon and Clouds
15
1
Independent Knowing
15
1
Time and Time Out
15
1
Devil, Buddha, and Mind
15
1
Direct Pointing to Basic Mind
16
1
Sudden Awakening
16
1
Communication through the Source
16
1
Summary of Zen Practice
16
1
Realizing the Way
16
1
Zen Master Xuedou
The Living Meaning of Zen
17
1
Where Do You Get It?
17
1
An Eye-Opening Experience
17
1
Illuminating Perception
17
1
Truth and Wisdom
17
1
Zen Teaching
18
1
Spoiling the Broth
18
1
The Zen River
18
1
Zen Master Huanglong
Teacherless Knowledge
19
1
Open Your Eyes
19
1
Knowledge and Feelings
19
1
The Zen Way
19
1
Seeking
20
1
Leavings
20
1
Living Zen
20
1
Real Detachment
21
1
Golden Chains
21
1
In and Out
21
1
Zen Master Yangqi
Lost and Found
22
1
Still Worldly
22
1
The Ancient Teaching
22
1
The Supreme Vehicle of Zen
22
1
Mind and Phenomena
23
1
Silent Zen
23
1
Zen Master Wuzu
Zen Teaching
24
1
Something Indescribable
24
1
Halcyon
24
1
The Goal of Zen
25
1
Seeking without Finding
25
1
Everyone Can Arrive
25
1
Talking about Zen
25
1
Zen Master Yuanwu
The Aim of Zen
26
1
Immediate Zen
26
1
Intellectual Egotists
26
1
Motivation
26
1
Peace
27
1
Instant Zen
27
1
Firm Footing
27
1
Changing Methods
27
1
The Purpose of Zen
27
1
Opening the Mind
28
1
Buddha's Teachings
28
1
Release
28
1
Half-Baked Zen
28
1
Zen Mind
29
1
Living and Dead Words
29
1
The Sword of Death, the Sword of Life
29
1
Don't Seek Zen
30
1
Direct Experience of Zen
30
1
Zen Attainment
31
1
Zen Practice
31
1
Liberation
31
1
Resolve
31
1
The Essential Point
32
1
Don't Linger
32
1
Autonomy and Integration
32
1
Consulting Teachers
32
1
Substance and Function
33
1
Extremes
33
1
Tools
33
1
Misuse of Tools
33
1
Snowflakes on a Furnace
33
1
Nonminding
34
1
Serene Response
34
1
Zen Life and Death
34
1
Zen Teachers
35
1
Dealing with Opposition
35
1
Zen Enlightenment and Zen Work
35
1
False Zen Teachers
35
1
Zen Devices
36
1
Cliche
36
1
Perception and Response
36
1
Essential Nature and Ultimate Truth
36
1
Unconcern
36
1
Pride
37
1
Concepts and Training
37
1
Penetrating Zen
37
1
Trust and Insight
37
1
Stumbled Past
38
1
Zen Experience
38
1
Direct Zen
38
1
Nondualism
38
1
Nonabiding
39
1
Subjective Zen
39
1
Dissolving Illusions
39
1
Basic Mind
39
2
Zen Master Foyan
Saving Energy
41
1
Mind and World
41
1
Inherent Zen
41
1
Discrimination and Nondiscrimination
42
1
Independence
42
1
Who Is It?
42
1
Mind's Eye
42
1
Rationalizations
42
1
Going in Circles
43
1
Recognition
43
1
Zen Perception
43
1
Stepping Back
43
1
Doubt and Understanding
43
1
Just You
44
1
Personalistic Zen
44
1
Misunderstanding
44
1
Fixation
44
1
Know Yourself
45
1
Misapplication
45
1
Subjective Objects
45
1
Nonsubjectivity
45
1
The Veil of Light
46
1
Distorted by a Teacher
46
1
Turning Things Around
46
1
What Deludes You?
47
1
Where You Cannot Fool Yourself
47
1
A Method of Sudden Enlightenment
47
1
Seek without Seeking
47
1
Misperception
48
1
Rationalizations
48
1
Ordinary Perceptions and Enlightenment
48
1
Zen and Enlightenment
49
1
What's Wrong?
49
1
What's Right?
49
1
A Doze of Zen
49
1
Sleeping and Eating Zen
50
1
True, Imitation, and Remnant Zen
50
1
Boundaries and Traps
50
1
Transcending Subject and Object
50
1
Natural Revelation
51
1
A Sacred Cow
51
1
Check Yourself
51
1
Oversimplified Zen
51
1
The Power of the Way
52
1
Zen Master Dahui
The Realm of the Enlightened
53
1
See Buddha Everywhere
53
1
Discontinuing Thoughts
54
1
Mind Your Own Business
54
1
No Mind
54
1
The Purpose of Stillness
54
1
The Source of Mind
55
1
The Natural State
55
1
Adaptation
55
1
Real Zen
55
1
Your Own Business
56
1
Foul Weather Zen
56
1
Peace and Quiet
56
1
Living Zen
56
1
Degenerate Zennism
56
1
Quiet Meditation
57
1
Saving Energy
57
1
Zen Hobbyists
58
1
Looking for the Shortcut
58
1
Attunement
58
1
Liberation
59
1
Zen Sects
59
1
Past, Present, and Future
59
1
Zen Master Hongzhi
The Subtlety of Zen
60
1
Finding Out for Oneself
60
1
Zen Mind
60
1
Everyone's Zen
61
1
Zen Experience
61
1
Zen Life, Zen Action
61
1
Autumn and Spring
61
1
The Light of Mind
62
1
Spontaneous Knowledge
62
1
Zen Mastery
62
1
Aloof of the Tumult
62
1
Normalcy
63
1
Enlightened Awareness
63
1
Shedding Your Skin
63
1
Zen Master Ying-An
Zen Mind
64
1
Freedom
64
1
Destroying Zen
64
1
The First Step
65
1
The Subtlety of Zen
65
1
Nothing to Grab
65
1
Original Zen
66
1
Zen Understanding
66
1
Zen Practice
66
1
False Zen, True Zen
67
1
Chills and Fever
67
1
Lone Lamp Zen
68
1
Imitation Zen
68
1
Zen Living
68
1
Personalistic Zen
68
1
The Zen of Essence
69
1
Greatness
69
1
Looking for Approval
69
1
Ancient Zen Practice
69
1
Graduate Zen
70
1
Empowering Will
71
1
The Subtle Mind of Zen
71
1
Zen Master Mi-An
The Living Road
72
1
Totally Alive
72
1
Deluded Zen
72
1
Zen Malfunctions
72
1
The Zen Shortcut
73
1
Zen Master Xiatang
The Perception of Sages
74
1
Breaking Habits
75
1
Zen Master Yuansou
The Crowning Meditation
76
1
Expedients and Reality
76
1
It
77
1
Distortion by Teachers
77
1
Liberation
78
1
Bad Habits
78
1
Spontaneous Zen
78
1
Expedients
79
1
Zen Mind
79
1
Translator's Afterword: Reflections on the Science of Freedom
80