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Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching: volume I https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N3BJK1Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_vfM7ybH8BVKEG
Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching: Volume II https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XPMTL23/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fgM7yb4CNR7WX
Clearly translated Shobogenzo last year. First time in history.
Contemporary that.
https://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Eye-True-Teaching-I-ebook/dp/B01N3BJK1Y/
There is a new one available:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N3BJK1Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_eI1gzbMDKG5D6
Very entertaining...
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Transmission of the Lamp volumes are pretty good too.
>Fayan pointed to a chair and said, “If you know the chair, there’s plenty of room.”
Yunmen said, “If you know the chair, you’re as far off as sky from earth.”
Tianyi said, “If you know the chair, it’s made of maple and cedar wood.”
Dahui remarked, “If you know the chair, you’d better shave your head and wash your feet. Even so, there are many people who still misunderstand.”
Note: The chair is the seat of consciousness, in it there is nothing, plenty of room;
in it you are atop a 1000 foot pole, as far as heaven is from earth;
it is in you, the various elements, maple and cedar wood;
if you know it you'd shave your head and wash your feet like a monk, wearing the patched robe, who could understand?
Relevant:
>Look: when Zhaozhou asked, "How is it when a man who has died the great death returns to life?"
Touzi Datong immediately said, "He must not go by night: he must get there in daylight."
Direct as sparks struck from stone, like the brilliance of a lightning flash. Only a transcendental man like him could do this.
A man who has died the great death has no Buddhist doctrines and theories, no mysteries and marvels, no gain and loss, no right and wrong, no long and short. When he gets here, he just lets it rest this way.
-Blue Cliff Record
>Once you have the intent to investigate this Path to the end, you must settle your resolve and vow to the end of your days not to retreat or fall back so long as you have not yet reached the Great Rest, the Great Surcease, the Great Liberation. There's not much to the Buddha Dharma, but it's always been hard to find (capable) people. The concerns of worldly passions are like the links of a chain, joining together without a break. Those whose resolve is weak and inferior time and time again willingly become involved with then: unknowing and unawares they are dragged along by them. Only if the person truly possesses the faculty of wisdom and will power will he consent to step back and reflect.
And
>Once you have achieved peaceful stillness of body and mind, you must make earnest effort. Do not immediately settle down in peaceful stillness- in the Teachings this is called "The Deep Pit of Liberation," much to be feared. You must make yourself turn freely, like a gourd floating on the water, independent and free, not subject to restraints, entering purity and impurity without being obstructed or sinking down. Only then do you have a little familiarity with the school of the patchrobed monks. If you manage to cradle the uncrying child in your arms, what's the use?
-Swampland Flowers
Link to Dahui Shobogenzo
> Well it isn't only books
Yes it is. Here, I'll copy and paste the whole damn thing:
Sayings of Zen Master Joshu- Green Translation
Joshu (Zhaozhou) is known for his short, one or two sentences answers to questions about Zen study.
Mumonkan, a book of instruction, poetry and Cases for novices written by Zen Master Mumon (Wumen)
Perhaps the single most famous Zen text, it is an alarmingly short book, made more alarming by it's lack of instruction and complexity.
R.H. Blyth's Zen and Zen Classics series, particularly volumes 2, 3, and 4 (Mumonkan), are essential texts for anyone new to Zen. These books are out of print, the Japanese publisher has gone out of business, but sites like Terebess.hu hosts electronic copies and random Redditors may also be able to direct you to electronic versions.
Zen Teaching of Huang Po
For anyone familiar with Buddhist doctrines, Huangbo's sayings and lectures serve as an excellent introduction to Zen and how Zen is incompatible with Buddhism.
Give it up for the Legendary Yunmen! Back in Print! Still short, pithy, and smack talky! http://www.amazon.com/Master-Yunmen-From-Record-Clouds/dp/1568360053
R.H. Blyth: Zen and Zen Classics, Volume 2: Huineng to Yunmen
R.H. Blyth: Zen and Zen Classics, Volume 3: Dongshan and Mazu and their heirs
R.H. Blyth: Zen and Zen Classics, Volume 4: Munonkan (Wumenguan), The penultiment Zen text
In order of the complexity of the language, references, constructions from less to more.
Sayings texts, Zhaozhou (Joshu), Yunmen (Ummon), the book by Wumen (Mumon) called The Gateless Gate. Also the poem by the 3rd Patriarh, Faith In Mind.
The sayings with lectures texts, Foyan and after that, Huangbo (Huang Po).
The books written by Zen Masters Yuanwu (Blue Cliff Record) and Wansong (Book of Serenity, Cleary trans.)
The Platform Sutra, the bodhidharma attributed texts, stuff from Dunhuang.
Mumonkan, a book of instruction, poetry and Cases for novices written by Zen Master Mumon (Wumen) and a poorer translation w/ Chinese
Perhaps the single most famous Zen text it is an alarming short book, made more alarming by it's lack of instruction and complexity.
Book of Serenity
Written by Wansong, this is the definitive text on the Caodong lineage. Buddhist priests in the last few decades have been trying to republish the book deleting Wansong's text and inserting religious sermons.
Blue Cliff Record
Written by Yuanwu, this is very long and very famous book of Zen instruction, Cases and poems in the same format as Book of Serenity.
Foyan - Instant Zen
Mumonkan
Yunmen
Huangbo
Foyan - Instant Zen
Yunmen
Joshu (Zhaozhou)
Layman Pang
Yunmen
(especially if you skip right to the Zen sections)
Foyan - Instant Zen - Instant Zen
Mazu - Sun Face Buddha
Zhaozhou - Sayings of Zen Master Joshu
Scholarship:
Bielefeldt's Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation: Dogen didn't study Zen, Dogen invented Zazen prayer-meditation, Dogen was a fraud and a plagiarist.
The Sound of One Hand, Hoffmann tras.: Hakuin's "answer key" to Zen koans, kept secret until publication in 1918, provides the answers monks have to give to get certified by the Rinzai church.
Pruning The Bodhi Tree: A collection of essays about the doctrinal basis of Japanese Buddhism, the irreconcilable conflicts with Zen, and the attempt at a Critical Buddhist reformation.
The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind by D.T. Suzuki. Exploring why "Zen" never meant "meditation"
https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.57108/2015.57108.Zen-Doctrine-Of-No-Mind_djvu.txt
See also r/zen/wiki/dhyana
Dahui's Shobogenzo, Vol. 1-2:
Volume 1: https://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Eye-True-Teaching-I-ebook/dp/B01N3BJK1Y/
Volume 2: https://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Eye-True-Teaching-II-ebook/dp/B06XPMTL23/
Blue Cliff Record, Cleary trans.
Book of Serenity, Cleary trans.
Wansong's Book of Serenity, translated by Cleary https://www.amazon.com/Book-Serenity-One-Hundred-Dialogues/dp/1570623813
Book of Serenity was written by Wansong himself
Other books having that title are not Zen texts, regardless of religious claims
Dongshan's Recorded Sayings of Tung-shan. https://www.amazon.com/Record-Tung-Shan-Classics-Asian-Buddhism/dp/0824810708
Dongshan, aka Tung-shan, was the first Caodong Master. Caodong comes from "Caoshan + Dongshan". Caoshan was one of Dongshan's dharma heirs.
Zen and Zen Classics, Vol. 3, by R.H. Blyth
> Dahui's Original Shobogenzo:
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>ewk \^? note: People who don't study Zen, but instead attach themselves to religious doctrines and messiahs and such can't handle words like this... they invariable add some "wisdom" or something to this teaching to "help" people with supernatural "wisdom"... but all this really adds is their desperation. Zen students on the other hand will shrug and say, "outside of words" or "vain talk", but what does this take away from "still doesn't leave"?
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>Without adding anything, without knowledge of what hasn't left, where are we?
That's all that will display for me on mobile and my laptop in multiple browsers. Mobile shows a partial quote preview after "Shobogenzo:" but all it displays is what I quoted. What the heck!
>Dahui's Real Original, the First Shobogenzo:
Anybody that goes around on the internet telling people he knows what's "real" usually needs to get his tinfoil hat checked.