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ZEN COMMENTS ON THE MUMONKAN

ZENKEI SHIBAYAMA

Head of the Nanzenji Organization of Temples

Formerly Zen Master of Nanzenji Monastery, Kyoto

Translated into English by SUMIKO KUDO

HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHS

New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London

With this volume an outstanding source of practical Zen teaching at long last becomes available to English-speaking readers. Not an interpretation, but rather a work of direct presentation, it may well become the standard by which to judge other writings about Zen. Translated from the running comments by one of Japan’s most respected Zen masters, ZEN COMMENTS ON THE MUMONKAN offers for the first time in English pure hard-hitting Zen instruction much as it would be transmitted to monk in a Japanese monastery.

The basis of the book is the Mumonkan, a classic collection of 48 cryptic saying or koan commonly used in monastic training. The koan themselves were gathered by the thirteen-century Chinese Master Mumon and discussed first by him. Making the original work even more attractive and exciting are the forceful short poems Master Mumon appended to each of his discussions. Sharing the insights of a long life of disciplined religious seeking and teaching, Zenkei Shibayama has added his own comments on the koan themselves and on the commentaries and poem by Master Mumon.

The effect produced by Shibayama Roshi’s repeated clarifications and illustrations is a revelation for the Western reader. Through concentrated attention first to the words of the original author and then to those of a modern commentator, he is led as near to a sense of what satori implies as is possible without actual Zen discipline and experience. The lively translation into English is done by Sumiko Kudo, herself a follower of Zen and a student of Shibayama Roshi. A glossary is included which identifies names, places and writings, and clarifies the Zen meaning of terms which might be unfamiliar to some readers.

CONTENTS

Preface by Kenneth W. Morgan

Introduction by Shibayama Roshi

ZEN COMMENTS ON THE MUMONKAN

Shuan’s Preface to the Mumonkan

Dedication to the Throne by Monk Ekai

Master’s Mumon’s Preface to the Mumonkan

KOAN

1.                  Joshu’s “Mu”

2.                  Hyakujo and a Fox

3.                  Gutei Raises a Finger

4.                  The Foreigner has no Beard

5.                  Kyogen’s man up a Tree

6.                  Sakyamuni holds up a Flower

7.                  Joshu says “Wash your Bowls”

8.                  Keichu makes Carts

9.                  Daitsu Chisho

10.              Seizei, a poor Monk

11.              Joshu sees the True Nature of two Hermits

12.              Zuigan calls “Master”

13.              Tokusan carried his Bowls

14.              Nansen kills a cat

15.              Tozan gets sixty Blows

16.              Bell-sound and Priest’s robe

17.              The National teacher calls three times

18.              Tozan’s three pounds of Flax

19.              Ordinary mind is Tao

20.              A man of great strength

21.              Unmon’s Shit-Stick

22.              Kasho and Flagpole

23.              Think never good nor Evil

24.              Abandon worlds and speaking

25.              Talk by the Monk of the third seat

26.              Two Monk rolled up the bamboo blinds

27.              Neither mind nor Buddha

28.              Well-known Ryutan

29.              Neither the Wind nor the Flag

30.              Mind is Buddha

31.              Joshu saw through the old woman

32.              A non-Buddhist questions the Buddha

33.              No mind , no Buddha

34.              Wisdom is not Tao

35.              Sen-Jo and her soul are separated

36.              Meeting a man of Tao on the way

37.              The Oak tree in the front garden

38.              A buffalo passes through a window

39.              Unmon says “you have missed it”

40.              Kicking over the Pitcher

41.              Bodhidharma and peace of mind

42.              A woman comes out of meditation

43.              Shuzan and a staff

44.              Basho and a stick

45.              Who is he?

46.              Step forward from the top of a pole

47.              Tosotsu’s three barries

48.              Kempo’s one way

APPENDEX

Mumon’s postscript

Mumon’s zen warnings

Muryo Soju’s poems on Oryo’s three barries

Mokyo’s epilogue

Amban’s forty-ninth talk

Glossary

Index

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