Thich nhat hanh zen keys (1974)

AZ Tmcu NHAT HANB is a Vietnamese Zen monk, a former professor at the University of Saigon, and a noted poet He is the author of a number of works on Buddhism and has published three books in English: Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire, Vietnam Poems, and Zen Poems He is internationally known as one of the leading spokesmen of the Vietnamese Buddhist peace movement Rosm PmLIP KAPLEAU is the director of The Zen Center at Rochester, New York, and widely recognized for his scholarship and practice of Zen He is the author of The Three Pillars of Zen and The Wheel of Death: A Collection of Writings from Zen Buddhist and Other Sources on Death-Rebirth-Dying Low, the translators of this volume from the French, have studied at The Zen Center at Rochester for the past seven years They have also translated Dr Hubert Benoit's Let Go ALBERT AND }EAN ZENXEYS ,_ _ [ THICH NHAT HANH TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH :BY ALBERT AND JEAN Low 'WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY l?IDLIP KA:PLEA.U ANCHOR BOOKS Anchor Press/ Doubleday Garden City, New York 1974 Zen Keys was originally published in French as Clefs Pour Le Zen by ~ditions Seghers © ~ditions Seghers, Paris, 1973 The Anchor Books edition is the first publication in the English language Anchor Books edition: 1974 ISBN: o-385-o8o66-z Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 74-3556 Translation Copyright © 1974 by DouBLEDAY & CoMPANY, INc Introduction Copyright © 1974 by Pml.IP KA.PLEAU All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of AmericaFirst Edition CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I Awareness of Being The Little Book Necessary Awareness To Be Mindful II III A Cup of Tea Seeing into One's Own Nature Bodhidharma's Dictum The Buddhist Revolution Not-I Things and Concepts The Principle of the Interdependence of Things The Vanity of Metaphysics Experience Itself The Moment of Awakening The Cyprus in the Courtyard The Language of Zen The Finger and the Moon "If You Meet the Buddha, Kill Him!" 17 19 21 23 27 29 30 32 34 36 37 38 40 41 43 45 47 49 vi N CONTENTS "Go and Wash the Bowl" The Good Reply The Kung-an and Its Function The Significance of the Kung-an Chao-Chou's "No!" Entering the Circle The Mind Must Be Ripe 51 52 53 57 59 62 65 Mountains Are Mountains and Rivers Are Rivers 71 The Mind Seal True Mind and False Mind Reality in Itself The Lamp and Lampshade A Non-Conceptual Experience The Principle of Non-Duality Interdependent Relation v Footprints of Emptiness The Birth of Zen Buddhism Zen and the West Zen and China The Notion of Emptiness Complementary Notions Anti-Scholastic Reactions Return to the Source The A Which Is Not A Is Truly A Penetrating the Tathata Subject and Object The Three Gates of Liberation The Eight Negations of Nagarjuna The Middle Way 73 75 77 So 82 84 88 91 93 96 97 99 101 102 103 105 108 109 111 113 116 CONTENTS The Vijnanavada School Classification of the Dharmas Conscious Knowledge Method of Vijnanavada Alaya as the Basis The Process of Enlightenment VI The Regeneration of Man Monastic Life The Retreats The Encormter The Role of the Laity The Zen Man and the World of Today Future Perspectives Is an Awakening Possible? Spirituality versus Technology VII Lessons on Emptiness vii 118 119 120 123 126 128 133 135 138 140 141 142 144 147 151 155 ZEN KEYS