Zen Koan Collection – Hekiganroku – Blue Cliff Record

Hekiganroku - Blue Cliff Record – Koan Collection

The Hekiganroku - Record of the Blue Cliff is a very old koan collection. When your vision penetrates this collection and you use it clearly, you are able to pivot spontaneously without freezing or getting stuck in the middle of all sorts of lightning-fast changes and complex interactions and interlocking intricacies.

If you understand, not even the thousand saints can place you!

Hekiganroku - The Bridge to the true Self!

When you enter enlightenment right where you are, you go to the deepest source. You cultivate this knowledge until you achieve spiritual freedom and no longer harbor anything in your heart. There is no “understanding” and certainly no “not understanding” here. They do not establish views or adhere to any mental states. They move with a powerful current, so that “the grasses bend as the wind moves.”

Koan Collection - Hekiganroku - Blue Cliff Record
  1. Emperor Wu Asks Bodhidharma
  2. Zen Master Joshu's "The Real Way Is Not Difficult"
  3. Zen Master Baso's "Sun-faced Buddha, Moon-faced Buddha''
  4. Zen Master Tokusan visits Isan
  5. Zen Master Seppo's "A Grain of Rice"
  6. Zen Master Ummon's "Every Day Is a Good Day"
  7. Zen Master Hogen's ''You Are Echo''
  8. Zen Master Suigan's Eyebrows
  9. Zen Master Joshu's Four Gates
  10. Zen Master Bokusha's "Empty-headed Fool"
  11. Zen Master Obaku's "Partakers of Brewer's Grain''
  12. Zen Master Tozan's Masagin
  13. Zen Master Haryo's "Snow in the Silver Bowl"
  14. Zen Master Ummon's ''Preaching Facing Oneness"
  15. Zen Master Ummon's "No Preaching on Oneness''
  16. Zen Master Kyosei's Instruction on Pecking and Tapping
  17. Zen Master Kyorin's "Sitting Long and Getting Tired''
  18. Emperor Shukuso Asks About the Style of the Pagoda
  19. Zen Master Gutei's Finger
  20. Zen Master Ryuge Asks Suibi and Rinzai
  21. Zen Master Chimon's Lotus Flower and Lotus Leaves
  22. Zen Master Seppo's Turtle-nosed Snake
  23. Zen Master Hofuku Points to Myohocho
  24. Zen Nun, the Old Female Buffalo
  25. The Master of Rengeho's Staff
  26. Zen Master Hyakujo Sits on the Great Sublime Peak
  27. Zen Master Ummon's "Golden Breeze"
  28. What the Holy Ones Have Not Preached
  29. Zen Master Daizui's "It Will Be Gone with the Other"
  30. Zen Master Joshu's "A Big Radish"
  31. Zen Master Mayoku Comes to Shokei
  32. Zen Master Rinzai's "What is the Essence?"
  33. Chinso Comes to Visit Zen Master Shifuku
  34. Zen Master Kyozan's "You Have Not Visited Rozan"
  35. Manjusri's "Threes and Threes''
  36. Zen Master Chosha Went for a Walk
  37. Zen Master Banshan's "Three Worlds, No Law"
  38. Zen Master Fuketsu and the Seal of the Patriarch
  39. Zen Master Ummon's "Golden-Haired Lion"
  40. Zen Master Nansen's "This Flower"
  41. Zen Master Joshu and the Great Death
  42. Ho Koji's "Beautiful Snowflakes"
  43. Zen Master Tozan's ''Nor Cold or Heat''
  44. Zen Master Kasan's "Beating the Drum"
  45. Zen Master Joshu's Seven-Pound Hempen Shirt
  46. Zen Master Kyosei's "Voice of the Raindrops"
  47. Zen Master Ummon's "Beyond the Six"
  48. Zen Master O Taifu and the Tea Ceremony
  49. Zen Master Sansho's "The Golden Carp out of the Net"
  50. Zen Master Ummon's "Particle After Particle's Samadhi"

51.  Zen Master Seppo's "What Is This?"
52.  Zen Master Joshu's Stone Bridge
53.  Zen Master Hyakujo and a Wild Duck
54.  Zen Master Ummon Stretches Out His Hands
55.  Zen Master Dogo's "I Would Not Tell You"
56.  Zen Master Kinzan and One Arrow Piercing the Three Barriers
57.  Joshu's "I Alone Am Holy Throughout Heaven and Earth"
58.  Zen Master Joshu's "No Justification"
59.  Zen Master Joshu's "Why Not Quote to the End?"
60.  Zen Master Ummon's Staff Becoming a Dragon
61.  Zen Master Fuketsu's "One Particle of Dust"
62.  Zen Master Ummon's "One Treasure"
63.  Zen Master Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two
64.  Zen Master Joshu Puts His Sandals on His Head
65.  A Non-Buddhist Philosopher Questions the Buddha
66.  Zen Master Ganto Laughed Loudly
67.  Zen Master Fu Concludes His Lecture on the Scripture
68.  Zen Master Kyozan Asks Sansho's Name
69.  Zen Master Nansen Draws a Circle
70. Zen Master Isan's "I Would Ask You to Say It"
71.  Zen Master Goho's "Shut Up"
72.  Zen Master Ungan's "Do You Have Them or Not?"
73.  Zen Master Baso and the Hundred Negations
74.  Zen Master Kingyu and the Rice Pail
75.  Zen Master Ukyu's Unfair Blows
76.  Zen Master Tanka's "Have You Had Your Dinner?"
77.  Zen Master Ummon's "A Sesame Bun"
78.  Bodhisattvas in the Bath
79.  Zen Master Tosu and "Every Voice Is the Buddha's Voice"
80.  Zen Master Joshu's "A Newborn Baby"
81.  Zen Master Yakusan' s King of the King Deer
82.  Zen Master Tairyu's "Indestructible Dharma Body"
83.  Zen Master Ummon's "The Old Buddha Communes with the Pillar"
84.  Yuima's "The Gate to the One and Only''
85.  The Master of Toho Hermitage Roars Like a Tiger
86.  Zen Master Ummon's "Everybody Has His Own Light"
87.  Zen Master Ummon's "Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other"
88.  Zen Master Gensha's Man of Three Disabilities
89.  Zen Master Ungan's "The Whole Body Is Hand and Eye"
90.  Zen Master Chimon and the Essence of Wisdom
91.  Zen Master Enkan and the Rhinoceros Fan
92.  The World-honored One Takes His Seat
93.  Zen Master Taiko's "You Fox-Devil"
94.  Scripture and "Unseeing"
95.  Zen Master Chokei and Hofuku Discuss the Buddha's Words
96.  Zen Master Joshu's Three Turning Words
97.  The Diamond Sutra's "The Transgression Is Wiped Out"
98.  Zen Master Tempyo's Two Wrongs
99.  Zen Master Cha and the Ten-bodied Herdsman
100. Zen Master Haryo's "Sword Against Which a Hair Is Blown"

 

The Sacred Sword - Koan & The Logos

The sacred sword (logos, living word) is ever in hand: death-dealing and life-giving. It Is there it, it is here, simultaneously giving and taking. If you want to hold fast, you are free to hold fast. If you want to let go, you are free to let go. Tell me how it will be when one makes no distinction between host and guest, and is indifferent to which role one takes up.

The Sacred Sword - Koan & The Logos