Tổ Sư Thiền

TEACHINGS 
From ANCIENT VIETNAMESE ZEN MASTERS
Translated and Commented by Nguyen Giac

 

This book is dedicated to: - my three teachers -- The Zen Master Thich Tich Chieu, and the late Dharma Masters Thich Thien Tam and Thich Tai Quang;  - all my parents in this life and other lives;  - a very special layperson who is urgently needing help from Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva; and all sentient beings. I am grateful to a lot of Zen monks and laypersons who translated the verses composed by ancient Vietnamese Zen Masters into the modern Vietnamese language, and made reference easy for later generations. Specifically, I am indebted to the Zen Masters Thich Thanh Tu, Tri Sieu Le Manh That and to layperson Tran Dinh Son, whose works I relied on while working on this book.  (Extracted from a book in progress.  Please feel free to use for reference purposes. All suggestions are welcome. Email: nguyengiac@yahoo.com -- California, 2006)

1 Sitting 2 Learning  3 Breathing 4 Wisdom 5 Taming the mind 6 Watchful 7 The Spring 8 Dharma Friends 9 The Treasure 10 Emptiness 11 The Present 12 Not Two Things 13 Swallow Flying 14 The Mind of Emptiness 15 Buddha Seed 16 Bodhi Scenes 17 Existence and Emptiness 18 True Nature 19 Crossing the Ocean 20 Empty Mind 21 Mind Teachings 22 The Way of Patriarchs 23 Weird Thing 24 The Sun 25 The Moon Shining 26 Illusory Body 27 Inaction 28 Like an Echo 29 Wordless 30 Zen 31 Be awakened 32 Butterflies 33 Be wise 34 Originally Emptiness 35 The Iron Girl 36 Birth and Death 37 In Front of Your Eyes 38 Echo in Sky 39 Nowhere 40 Cessation 41 At Home 42 The True Body 43 Leaving the World 44 Illusions 45 Song of the Buddha Mind

46 All Phenomena 47 The Great Way 48 Daisies 49 Seeing the Buddha 50 Bodhi 51 Manifesting 52 Following the Emptiness 53 Dharma Heir 54 Nothing Attainable 55 The Highest 56 Mind Only 57 The Serene Mirror 58 Practice 59 Going Home 60 Six Words 61 The Mind Seal. 62 This Land, This Mind. 63 Fire. 64 The Rise and Decline. 65 Illusory. 66 Being Luminous. 67 Like a Dragon. 68 Stone Horse. 69 Not for Profit. 70 Not a Word. 71 Outside the Scriptures. 72 Foolish. 73 Tathagata. 74 Dharma of Equality. 75 Urgently Practice. 76 Encouraging. 77 At Ease with Birth and Death. 78 At the Mountain Cottage, Feeling Inspired. 79 Message. 80 Mountain Temple. 81 Sitting Still. 82 Always There. 83 Sun of Wisdom. 84 Seeking the Mind. 85 The Lamp. 86 Going Home. 87 Seeing the Nature. 88 The Buddhas Within. 89 The Three Studies. 90 The ‘What Is’.