Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans

'The cherry-blossoms of Yoshino, which will bloom with the spring - If we cult the tree open to find them, where would they be?'SAMURAI ZEN: the Warrior Koans unites 100 of the rare riddles representing the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from the thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of pure Zen in Japan as created by Zen Masters for their warrior pupils. Unlike the classical Chinese koan riddles, the Japanese koans used incidents from everyday life-a broken teacup, a water jar, a cloth-to bring the warrior pupils of the Samurai to the Zen realization. As key preparatory tests, they were direct attempts to waken the sleeping wisdom in each man, found in the region of conscious meditation that is without thought. Their aim was to enable a widening of consciousness beyond the illusions of the limited self, and a joyful inspiration in life-a state thathas been compared to being free under a blue sky after imprisonment.

Trevor Leggett (1914 - 2000), for many years the Head of the Japanese Service of the BBC, was a leading practitioner of Judo and among the West's most recognized modern experts on Zen and the eastern arts. He is the author of several books on Zen Buddhism and was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Japanese Government in 1984 in recognition of his work in promoting Japanese culture abroad

Introduction	p. 11
Preface	p. 19
Acknowledgments	p. 25
Imai Fukuzan's introduction to Shonan-katto-roku	p. 27
Extracts from Imai Fukuzan's introduction to Warrior Zen	p. 36
Kamakura koans	p. 49
The mirror of Enkakuji	p. 49
Hachiman asks to hear the dharma	p. 50
Saving Kajiwara's soul	p. 51
Daikaku's one-word sutra	p. 52
Bukko's no-word sutra	p. 54

Daikaku's one-robe Zen	p. 55
Bukko's loin-cloth Zen	p. 57
The bucket without a bottom	p. 58
Jizo stands up	p. 61
Jizo coming out of the hall	p. 63
The well of youth	p. 63
Putting out the fire in Hell Valley	p. 65
Rankei's shari pearls	p. 66
The deer at the sermon	p. 67
The snake round the Ginko tree	p. 68
The dragon crest	p. 69
The great Buddha of Hase	p. 71
Numbering the waves on Yui beach	p. 72
Tokimune's thing below the navel	p. 73
The gate by which all the Buddhas come into the world	p. 76
The rite of the Treasury of Space	p. 79
How priest Isshin saved the ghost	p. 80
Stopping the fighting across the river	p. 82
The verse facing death	p. 83
The Cave of Man in Mount Fuji	p. 84
The Nembutsu Robe	p. 87
Benzaiten of Enoshima	p. 89
The god Hachiman	p. 90
The rite of the wind god at Kamakura	p. 91
The one-word charm of Enkakuji	p. 93
Mirror Zen--Introduction--the Verses	p. 98
The very first Jizo	p. 102
The nyo-i sickle of Enkakuji	p. 103
The cat-monster	p. 105
The destruction of the toad at Kaizoji	p. 106
The Kannon at Hase	p. 109
Yakushi of a thousand forms	p. 109
The snake at Itozaki	p. 111
Bukko's age	p. 113
The birth of the Buddha	p. 114
'The world-honoured one has been born!'	p. 115
The flower hall on Buddha's birthday	p. 116
Sermon	p. 118
The source of heaven	p. 121
Wielding the spear with hands empty	p. 122
The Kenchoji library	p. 123
Sameness	p. 125
The badger-headed Kannon	p. 127
The basic truth of Buddhism	p. 130
The divine snake of the Benten shrine	p. 131
Reading one's own mind	p. 132
The dharma-interview of Nun Mujaku	p. 133
The night interview of Nun Myotei	p. 135
The Buddha-heart relics	p. 137
The Zen Goma rite	p. 138
The one-word Heart Sutra	p. 140
Isshin's rain-making	p. 141
Bukko's death poem	p. 143
The charm	p. 144
Ashikaga Takauji's Jizo-Son	p. 145
The gravestone with no name	p. 147
The judgment of Yama	p. 149
Really before the eyes	p. 149
So	p. 150
The picture of beauty	p. 151
How the sutra of the Resolution of the Brahma-king's Doubt was put into the canon	p. 152
The mark of the Brahma-voice	p. 153
The mind, the Buddha; no mind, no Buddha	p. 154

The Great Katzu! of Master Toden	p. 154
The Great Katzu! of Master Torin	p. 156
The paper sword	p. 158
Heaven and earth broken up	p. 160
Victory in the midst of a hundred enemies	p. 161
Teaching Buddhism	p. 162
Pasting the charm on the heart	p. 162
Painting the nature	p. 163
Not going, not coming	p. 164
The way of the teacup	p. 165
The scriptures of one hand	p. 166
Daibai's shari-pearls	p. 168
The lotus strainer	p. 169
The copy	p. 170
The gate-keeper's question	p. 171
The Buddha's birthday	p. 172
Tengai's heart-binding	p. 174
The Lanka sutra of one word	p. 176
One law, a thousand words	p. 178
Ku-an's three questions	p. 180
The sermon of Nun Shido	p. 181
The Knight patriarch coming from the west	p. 182
Sadatsune receives the precepts	p. 183
The Great Katzu! of Ryuho	p. 185
Daiye's verse on 'not'	p. 189
Meditation of the energy-sea	p. 191

Tozan's Who's-This?	p. 192
The Who's-This? Sermon	p. 193
Tanka's Buddha-burning	p. 194
The four Dharma-worlds of a teacup	p. 195
The diamond realm	p. 196
Meeting after death	p. 198
Maudgalyayana's mother	p. 199
The iron bar of 10,000 miles	p. 200
Freeing the ghost	p. 201
Index of Chinese characters	p. 205
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