101 Zen Stories

• A Cup of Tea
• Finding a Diamond on a Muddy Road
• Is That So?
• Obedience
• If You Love, Love Openly
• No Loving-Kindness
• Announcement
• Great Waves
• The Moon cannot be Stolen
• The Last Poem of Hoshin
• The Story of Shunkai
• Happy Chinaman
• A Buddha
• Muddy Road
• Shoun and His Mother
• Not Far from Buddhahood
• Stingy in Teaching
• A Parable
• The First Principle
• A Mother’s Advice
• The Sound of One Hand
• My Heart Burns Like Fire
• Eshun’s Departure
• Reciting Sutras
• Three Days More
• Trading Dialogue for Lodging
• The Voice of Happiness
• Open Your Own Treasure House
• No Water, No Moon
• Calling Card
• Everything is Best
• Inch Time Foot Gem
• Mokusen’s Hand
• A Smile in His Lifetime
• Every-Minute Zen
• Flower Shower
• Publishing the Sutras
• Gisho’s Work
• Sleeping in the Daytime
• In Dreamland
• Joshu’s Zen
• The Dead Man’s Answer
• Zen in a Beggar’s Life
• The Thief Who Became a Disciple
• Right and Wrong
• How Grass and Trees Become Enlightened
• The Stingy Artist
• Accurate Proportion
• Black-Nosed Buddha
• Ryonen’s Clear Realization
• Sour Miso
• Your Light May Go Out
• The Giver Should be Thankful
• The Last Will and Testament
• The Tea-Master and the Assassin
• The True Path
• The Gates of Paradise
• Arresting the Stone Buddha
• Soldiers of Humanity
• The Tunnel
• Gudo and the Emperor
• In the Hands of Destiny
• Killing
• Kasan Sweat
• The Subjugation of a Ghost
• Children of His Majesty
• What Are You Doing! What Are You Saying!
• One Note of Zen
• Eating the Blame
• The Most Valuable Thing in the World
• Learning to be Silent
• The Blockhead Lord
• Ten Successors
• True Reformation
• Temper
• The Stone Mind
• No Attachment to Dust
• Real Prosperity
• Incense Burner
• The Real Miracle
• Just Go to Sleep
• Nothing Exists
• No Work, No Food
• True Friends
• Time to Die
• The Living Buddha and the Tubmaker
• Three Kinds of Disciples
• How to Write a Chinese Poem
• Zen Dialogue
• The Last Rap
• The Taste of Banzo’s Sword
• Fire-Poker Zen
• Storyteller’s Zen
• Midnight Excursion
• A Letter to a Dying Man
• A Drop of Water
• Teaching the Ultimate
• Non-Attachment
• Tosui’s Vinegar
• The Silent Temple
• Buddha’s Zen