Eloquent Silence: Nyogen Senzaki's Gateless Gate and Other Previously Unpublished Teachings and Letters
The most comprehensive collection available of Nyogen Senzaki's brilliant teachings, Eloquent Silence brings new depth and breadth to our knowledge and appreciation of this historic figure. It makes available for the first time his complete commentaries on the Gateless Gate, one of the most important and beloved of all Zen texts, as well as on koans from the Blue Rock Annals and the Book of Equanimity. Amazingly, some of these commentaries were written while Senzaki was detained at an...
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The most comprehensive collection available of Nyogen Senzaki’s brilliant teachings, Eloquent Silence brings new depth and breadth to our knowledge and appreciation of this historic figure. It makes available for the first time his complete commentaries on the Gateless Gate, one of the most important and beloved of all Zen texts, as well as on koans from the Blue Rock Annals and the Book of Equanimity. Amazingly, some of these commentaries were written while Senzaki was detained at an internment camp during WWII. Also included are rare photographs, poems reproduced in Senzaki’s beautiful calligraphy and accompanied by his own translations, and transcriptions of his talks on Zen, esoteric Buddhism, the Lotus Sutra, what it means to be a Buddhist monk, and other subjects. Roko Sherry Chayat has edited Nyogen Senzaki’s words with sensitivity and grace, retaining his wry, probing style yet bringing clarity and accessibility to these remarkably contemporary teachings.
Foreword Eido Shimano Shimano, EidoIntroduction Roko Sherry Chayat Chayat, Roko Sherry 1Acknowledgments 23Photographs 27Pt. I Commentaries on the Cateless Cate 35Introductory Comments 37Mumon's Introduction 40Case 1 Joshu's Dog 43Case 2 Hyakujo's Fox 47Case 3 Gutei's Finger 51Case 4 A Beardless Foreigner 54Case 5 Kyogen's Man in a Tree 57Case 6 Buddha Twirls a Flower 60Case 7 Joshu's "Wash Your Bowl" 63Case 8 Keichus Wheel 67Case 9 A Buddha before History 70Case 10 Seizei Alone and Poor 74Case 11 Joshu Examines a Hermit Monk in Meditation 77Case 12 Zuigan Calls His Own Master 80Case 13 Tokusan Holds His Bowls 83Case 14 Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two 87Case 15 Tozan's Three Blows 91Case 16 The Bell and the Ceremonial Robe 94Case 17 The Three Calls of the Emperor's Teacher 97Case 18 Tozan's Three Pounds 100Case 19 Everyday Life Is the Path 104Case 20 The Man of Great Strength 107Case 21 Dried Dung 110Case 22 Kashyapa's Preaching Sign 113Case 23 Think Neither Good, Nor Not-Good 116Case 24 Without Speech, Without Silence 121Case 25 Preaching from the Third Seat 124Case 26 Two Monks Roll Up the Screen 127Case 27 It Is Not Mind, It Is Not Buddha, It Is Not Things 130Case 28 Ryutan Blows Out the Candle 133Case 29 Not the Wind, Not the Flag 137Case 30: This Mind Is Buddha 141Case 31 Joshu Investigates 144Case 32 A Philosopher Asks Buddha 147Case 33 This Mind Is Not Buddha 151Case 34 Wisdom Is Not the Path 154Case 35 Two Souls 158Case 36 Meeting a Master on the Road 163Case 37 The Cypress Tree in the Garden 166Case 38 A Buffalo Passes through an Enclosure 169Case39 Ummon's Off the Track 172Case 40 Tipping Over a Water Vessel 175Case 41 Bodhidharma Pacifies the Mind 178Case 42 The Woman Comes Out from Meditation 181Case 43 Shuzan's Short Staff 185Case 44 Basho's Staff 188Case 45 Who Is It? 191Case 46 Proceed from the Top of the Pole 194Case 47 The Three Barriers of Tosotsu 197Case 48 One Path of Kernpo 200Amban's Addition 203Pt. II Commentaries on the Blue Rock Collection 207Case 1 I Know Not 209Case 2 The Ultimate Path 211Case 8 Suigan's Eyebrows 213Case 12 Tozan's Three Pounds of Flax 216Case 22 Seppo's Cobra 218Pt. III Commentaries on the Book of Equanimity 221Introduction 223Ch. 1 Buddha Takes His Preaching Seat 226Ch. 2 Bodhidharma Walks Out from Samskrita 229Pt. IV Dharma Talks and Essays 235An Ideal Buddhist 237A Meeting With Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan 242Seven Treasures, Part One 244Seven Treasures, Part Two 249Seven Treasures, Part Three 253The Ten Stages of Consciousness 257Emancipation 260How to Study Buddhism 265Zen Buddhism in the Light of Modern Thought 268Buddhism and Women 272Obaku's Transmission of Mind, Part One 276Obaku's Transmission of Mind, Part Two 279Obaku's Transmission of Mind, Part Three 282Obaku's Transmission of Mind, Part Four 286Esoteric Buddhism in Japan 289Shingon Teachings 296What Is Zen? An Evening Chat 299What Does a Buddhist Monk Want? 305On Zen Meditation 309On The Lotus of the Wonderful Law: Introducing Soen Nakagawa 315Bankei's Zen 322Pt. V Calligraphies and Selected Poems 325"Basho" 327"0pening words of Wyoming Zendo" 328"Evacuees make poinsettia" 329"Autumn came naturally" 330"In this part of plateau" 331"This desert on the plateau" 332"My uta (Japanese ode)" 333"Those who live without unreasonable desires" 334"The mother was named an enemy-alien" 335"Naked mountains afar!" 336"No spring in this plateau" 337"Closing the meditation hall" 338"Bodhidharrna" 339"This world is the palace of enlightenment" 340"Until now the radiant moon" 341odhidharma Commemoration 343Celebration of Buddha's Birth 343Translations of Three Poems by Jakushitsu 344Commemoration of Soyen Shaku 346Thirty-third Commemoration of Soyen Shaku 346Pt. VI The Autobiography of Soyen Shaku: Translated and with Comments Nyogen Senzaki Senzaki, Nyogen 347Pt. VII Correspondence 363To Soyen Shaku, December 25, 189? 365To Soyen Shaku, March 21, 1905 378The Purpose of Establishing Tozen Zenkutsu, April 8, 1931 382Article and Related Letters to the Editor, Second General Conference of Pan-Pacific Young Buddhist Associations, 1934 384Exchange with Myra A. Stall, July 11 and 16, 1956 402Newly Translated Correspondence 404Notes 407Bibliography 411Index 413
