Zen Buddhism for anybody Vol 1 [revised]

Intro	7
A cup of tea	10
Nothing stays	12
The fire	14
Sand castles	15
No pursuing of labyrinths	16
Preference	17
Not able to leave home	18
To them monks	21
Written by the Nun Ryonen in her deathbed	23
Stones in the water	24
Host and guests	25
Lingyun and the peach blossoms	26
A poem echoing poems	27
Upon seeing a painting of peach blossoms	28
An old saying	29
Watch out!	30
The great fool of immense tolerance	32
Ryokan’s freedom	34
Calligraphy on the spot	35
Knowing ourselves	38
Money by the side of the road	39
Fragrance	40
A young Joshu	41
The way back home	43
An end to bad karma	44
Chosa Keishin	46
Remix of Sudden Enlightenment	47
Nothing compares	49
Probing like the blind	50
The Way is near	52
Is this a repetition?	54
More and more...	55
Not yes, not no	56
Searching for the fingers with your hands	57
As if they were in a dream	58
The fish are having fun?	59
Zhuangzi	60
From back when people traveled on foot	61
Hardworking	63
Hanshan	64
Not even a single drop	65
A whirlwind of dust	66
Deaf and dumb	67
A definition of kalpa	68
Oneself and other	69
Thankful about what, exactly?	70
Over a bridge	72
On the other side of the river	74
Carrying a girl	75
The way she goes...	76
Using the creek as a pillow	77
A teaching beyond words	78
Speed up!	79
An echo	80
Hyakujo and Baso	81
Somewhere	83
Cows and dogs	84
Does the ocean contains water?	85
If you never ask any questions, how would you know?	86
What now?	87
A sparrow on the statue of Buddha	88
Tumbling currents	89
The animal Satori	90
Bobo Roshi	91
It all starts somewhere	94
The Red-Bearded Barbarian coming from the West and a seat lying around	95
Hsiang Lin	96
A second load	97
A tree in the garden	98
Moss	99
Fake news	100
Not in here...	101
Idiot	102
Me neither	103
A single verse from Zen	104
Like a needle	105
Water in the water-lilly	106
The dewdrop and the color of the leaf	107
Both are sides from a single miracle	108
Warning: difficult to remove from the eyes	109
Take this	110
For real	111
A lamp in broad daylight	112
Swollen heads	114
The dog and the moon	115
No moon, no finger	117
Straight forward, like an arrow	118
No labyrinth leads to Rome	119
Where does it happen? Who’s involved?	120
Very high	121
A famous metaphor	122
Where are we?	123
The super moves	124
Facial composite	125
Pregnant empty	126
Short and sweet	127
Learning beyond teaching	128
As simple as that	129
Gentle wind	130
Supernatural powers? Sure!	131
Zen embarrassments	132
Hyakujo and the fox	133
To and fro	138
Guess what...	139
A most magnificent shipwreck	140
Original purity	141
Guanyin’s arms and eyes	142
Achoo!	146
Wang-Bang	147
Nothing besides this...	148
It is not always easy, thinking of a title	149
The fish and the net	150
This body itself is Nirvana	152
Halos by day; horns by night	153
Fragile	156
Here we are	157
It’s all the same	158
Controlled, or not controlled?	159
Intimate and alone	160
The fear is real	161
With a shaven head and wearing a robe, a monk looks like a turtle	162
Hungry once more	163
AllTogetherRightHereNow	164
Letter to a friend	165
Hey you	166
Temptation	167
Written by a monk born in 1394	168
Tired of names	169
A famous poet, even tired of being praised	170
Scolding others	171
Searching in vain	172
Smoke	173
Lu	174
What if Lu walks through the door?	176
Proud	177
Hanging around Yoka Daishi	179
Two sides from the same tissue	182
Polishing a brick into a mirror	183
A formal meditation	186
A piece of truth	188
A knife to a Zen fight	189
Performance of acts	191
The one who helps the most	192
The master is you	193
Ask it to the right person	194
Nevermind	195
Refined sugar and fancy butter	196
After so much dispute	197
You are happy	198
Now that’s a guzzler	199
A treasure map	201
Transparent	203
When the penny drops	204
Which one?	205
Zengetsu’s advice	206
Ryokan: “My rules” 	208
Laughter all around	210
That’s how it actually works	211
Coward!	212
Heart Sutra	213
Emptiness manifested in form	216
The burglar’s son	217
Hua tou	219
Enjoy the strawberry	220
It is over, but there is more	221