The Gateless Barrier: Forty-Eight Lectures on Kōans
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Introduction
About this course
The Cases
Case 1 - Zhaozhou's Dog
Case 2 - Baizhang and the Wild Fox
Case 3 - Juzhi Holds Up a Finger
Case 4 - The Barbarian Has No Beard
Case 5 - Xiangyan is Up in a Tree
Case 6 - World-Honored One Holds Up a Flower
Case 7 - Zhaozhou's "Wash the Bowl!"
Case 8 - Xizhong Makes a Carriage
Case 9 - Great Penetrating and Supreme Wisdom
Case 10 - The Destitute Qingshui
Case 11 - Zhaozhou Discerns the Hermits
Case 12 - Ruiyan Calls His Master
Case 13 - Deshan Carries His Bowl
Case 14 - Nanquan Kills a Cat
Case 15 - Dongshan's Three Rounds of Blows
Case 16 - The Sound of the Bell, The Seven-Piece Robe
Case 17 - The National Teacher's Three Calls
Case 18 - Dongshan's Three Pounds of Flax
Case 19 - Ordinary Mind is the Path
Case 20 - A Person of Great Power
Case 21 - Yunmen's Dried Shitstick
Case 22 - Mahākāśyapa's Temple Flagpole
Case 23 - Not Thinking of Good or Bad
Case 24 - Apart from Words
Case 25 - The One from the Third Seat Preaches the Dharma
Case 26 - Two Monks Rolled Up Blinds
Case 27 - Not the Mind, Not the Buddha, No Things
Case 28 - Long Have We Heard of Longtan
Case 29 - Not the Wind, Not the Flag
Case 30 - Mind is Buddha
Case 31 - Zhaozhou Tests the Old Granny
Case 32 - An Outsider Questions the Buddha
Case 33 - Not Mind, Not Buddha
Case 34 - Wisdom is Not the Way
Case 35 - When a Beautiful Woman's Spirit Departs
Case 36 - If You Meet a Person Who Has Reached the Path
Case 37 - The Cypress in the Courtyard
Case 38 - A Water Buffalo Passing Through a Window Frame
Case 39 - Yunmen's "Your Words Fail"
Case 40 - Kicking Over the Water Jar
Case 41 - Bodhidharma Pacifies the Mind
Case 42 - The Girl Comes out of Samādhi
Case 43 - Shoushan's Bamboo Comb
Case 44 - Bajiao's Staff
Case 45 - Who Is He?
Case 46 - A Step beyond the Hundred-Foot Pole
Case 47 - Tuṣita's Three Barriers
Case 48 - Qianfeng's One Path
Postscript
Post-Commentary Lecture
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Case 19 - Ordinary Mind is the Path
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The Gateless Barrier: Forty-Eight Lectures on Kōans
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Introduction
About this course
The Cases
Case 1 - Zhaozhou's Dog
Case 2 - Baizhang and the Wild Fox
Case 3 - Juzhi Holds Up a Finger
Case 4 - The Barbarian Has No Beard
Case 5 - Xiangyan is Up in a Tree
Case 6 - World-Honored One Holds Up a Flower
Case 7 - Zhaozhou's "Wash the Bowl!"
Case 8 - Xizhong Makes a Carriage
Case 9 - Great Penetrating and Supreme Wisdom
Case 10 - The Destitute Qingshui
Case 11 - Zhaozhou Discerns the Hermits
Case 12 - Ruiyan Calls His Master
Case 13 - Deshan Carries His Bowl
Case 14 - Nanquan Kills a Cat
Case 15 - Dongshan's Three Rounds of Blows
Case 16 - The Sound of the Bell, The Seven-Piece Robe
Case 17 - The National Teacher's Three Calls
Case 18 - Dongshan's Three Pounds of Flax
Case 19 - Ordinary Mind is the Path
Case 20 - A Person of Great Power
Case 21 - Yunmen's Dried Shitstick
Case 22 - Mahākāśyapa's Temple Flagpole
Case 23 - Not Thinking of Good or Bad
Case 24 - Apart from Words
Case 25 - The One from the Third Seat Preaches the Dharma
Case 26 - Two Monks Rolled Up Blinds
Case 27 - Not the Mind, Not the Buddha, No Things
Case 28 - Long Have We Heard of Longtan
Case 29 - Not the Wind, Not the Flag
Case 30 - Mind is Buddha
Case 31 - Zhaozhou Tests the Old Granny
Case 32 - An Outsider Questions the Buddha
Case 33 - Not Mind, Not Buddha
Case 34 - Wisdom is Not the Way
Case 35 - When a Beautiful Woman's Spirit Departs
Case 36 - If You Meet a Person Who Has Reached the Path
Case 37 - The Cypress in the Courtyard
Case 38 - A Water Buffalo Passing Through a Window Frame
Case 39 - Yunmen's "Your Words Fail"
Case 40 - Kicking Over the Water Jar
Case 41 - Bodhidharma Pacifies the Mind
Case 42 - The Girl Comes out of Samādhi
Case 43 - Shoushan's Bamboo Comb
Case 44 - Bajiao's Staff
Case 45 - Who Is He?
Case 46 - A Step beyond the Hundred-Foot Pole
Case 47 - Tuṣita's Three Barriers
Case 48 - Qianfeng's One Path
Postscript
Post-Commentary Lecture
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