- The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Molly Delight Whitehead’s Preface
- Shohaku Okumura’s Introduction
- Kosho Uchiyama’s Introduction
- The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
- 1. No Need to Be Chained
- 2. Having Finally Returned to a True Way of Life
- 3. What Is Efficiency For?
- 4. Seeing with Fresh Eyes
- 5. The Greatness of Sawaki Roshi
- 6. Returning to the Self
- 7. Circumstances
- 8. Creating Sutras
- 9. What Is Happiness?
- 10. Making Human Beings into Commodities
- 11. Group Stupidity’s Relevance Today
- 12. Mob Psychology
- 13. The Fashion of the Day
- 14. Dazzled by the Multitude
- 15. Opinions Gone to Seed
- 16. Loyalty
- 17. Mistaking Technological Advancement for Human Transformation
- 18. Tunnel Vision
- 19. Gathering Food and Hatching Eggs
- 20. A Depressed Look
- 21. Calculating the Difference
- 22. Religion Is Life
- 23. Our Lives of Inertia
- 24. The Money Solution
- 25. Everyone Is Naked
- 26. Seeing the World from a Casket
- 27. Ghosts and the Power of Suggestion
- 28. In the Family
- 29. What Makes You Attractive?
- 30. One’s Own Life
- 31. The Viewpoint of the Ordinary Person
- 32. Zazen Rather Than Money
- 33. Feeling Like a King
- 34. My Opinion
- 35. Science and Human Beings
- 36. Loss
- 37. Halfway Zazen
- 38. Seeing According to Karmic Consciousness
- 39. Aborting the Self
- 40. What’s the Point of Working to Get Rich?
- 41. Pitiful Heavenly Beings
- 42. Only When We Practice
- 43. Zazen Is the Stability of One’s Whole Life
- 44. Being Overly Self-Conscious
- 45. A Holy Man
- 46. The Despair of the Ordinary Person
- 47. Zazen and Delusion
- 48. Spectator Zen
- 49. Zazen Is Good for Nothing
- 50. Changeable Mind
- 51. A Rose Is a Rose
- 52. Corruption and Rudeness
- 53. Fabrication
- 54. Grading Morality
- 55. Self-Centered Motivation
- 56. Seamless Practice
- 57. Dogen Zenji’s Appeal
- 58. The Value of Things
- 59. Habitual Views
- 60. Reality
- 61. The Self That Is Connected with the Universe
- 62. The Anxieties of Making a Living
- 63. The Blessings of the Universe
- 64. No Other
- 65. True Self Beyond Thinking
- 66. Enriching Our Lives
- 67. Live Your Own Life
- 68. A Burglar Breaks into an Empty House
- 69. Thief’s Action and Buddha’s Action
- 70. The “What Am I Going to Do?” Dance
- 71. Aiming in Emptiness
- 72. Sawaki Roshi’s Last Words
- Kodo Sawaki Roshi’s Zazen
- Recollections of My Teacher, Kodo Sawaki Roshi
- The Life of Homeless Kodo
- Main Sources
- Index
- About the Authors
- Also Available from Wisdom Publications
- Copyright
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