Preface Introduction Acknowledgments ch. 1. The Buddha 1. The unborn 2. The cosmic Buddha 3. His three bodies 4-6. The truth-finder as a way-shower 7. The Buddha's pity 8-10. The Buddha within ch. 2. The old wisdom schools The teaching of the elders 11. 'Go ye forth, O Bhikkhus!' 12. The Buddha's teaching 13. The first sermon 14. the fire sermon 15. From the Dhammapada What is not taught 16. From the Potthapada Sutta 17. Vacchagotta, the Wanderer, is answered 18. The Simsapa leaves 19. 'The word of the Buddha' concerning the noble truths and the eightfold path 20. The four noble truths 21. The four stages and the ten fetters No authority 22. The Buddha's address to the Kalamas 23. The test of true teaching Causality, Karma and rebirth 24-30. Causality 31. The doctrine of rebirth 32. What is reborn The Self and the not-self 33. The doctrine of no-self 34. The self is empty 25. The person as a chariot 36. When the fire goes out 37. Self dies with ignorance Three parables 38. The blind man and the elephant 39. Kisagotami and the mustard seed 40. The parable of the raft The Buddhist life 41. The purpose of the Buddhist life 42. Good works 43. Good moral habits 44. In this six-foot body 45. Getting rid 46. The greatest blessing 47. Progress is gradual 48, 49. The four sublime states of mind 50. Boundless goodwill 51, 52. Fellowship with beauty 53-55. The Arhat ideal 56. The Buddha's last words. ch. 3. Two further sutras of the old wisdom schools 57. From the Sutra of 42 sections 58. From 'The light of Asia' The new wisdom schools ch. 4. The new wisdom schools : India From the scriptures 59. What is the Maha-yana? From the Perfection of wisdom 60. Duality and non-duality 61. The heart sutra 62. From the Diamond sutra From the lotus sutra 63. The Buddha and the rain-cloud 64. Provisional and final nirvana 65. From the Exposition of Vimalakirti 66. The one principle of life From the Lankavatara sutra 67. Neither permanence nor impermanence 68. No world outside the mind 69. The two-fold egolessness 70. From the Treatise in twenty stanzas by Vasubandhu From the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana 71. The practice of faith From the Surangama sutra 72. The eye, the mind and the essence of mind 73. The control of sexual desire From the Path of light 74. The master of the banquet 75. Self-surrender 76. Remembrance 77. Anger unpremeditated 78. Regard for others 79. The perfect knowledge Some Mahayana themes The void 80. In praise of the void 81. The defilements stopped by emptiness 82. The Buddha-nature and the void Suchness 83. Suchness 84. The suchness of form 85. The truly so The Zen unconscious, suchness and the middle way 87. The store consciousness The Bodhisattva ideal 88. The Bodhisattva's vow 89-92. The Bodhisattva's nature 93, 94. The Bodhisattva's training 95, 96. The Bodhisattva's compassion 87. The Bodhisattva's transfer of merit 98. He does not seek deliverance 99-100. The Bodhisattva's skilful means The six perfections 101. The six perfections 102-103. The perfection of giving. ch. 5. The new wisdom schools : china and Japan The Tendai School 104. On the practice of meditation for beginners The Kegon School 105. True enlightenment 106. Jijimuge The Pure Land School 107. Concerning faith 108. Honen on salvation 109. The pure land 11. Mind-only Records of Zen masters 111. On trust in the heart 112. From the platform sutra of Hui-neng The Zen teaching of Huang Po 113. I. From the Chün Chou record 114. II. From the Wan Ling record 115. Gradual and sudden awakening 116. From the Shodoka of Yoka Daishi 117. From the path to
