Excerpts from "Yadonashi Hokkusan", the Japanese original of this collection of sayings by Sawaki Roshi with comments by his student Uchiyama Roshi, contains 71 chapters. 64 of them were published as "The Zen Teaching of 'Homeless' Kodo" by the Soto Zen Headquarters in Tokyo, but are presently out of print. This Englich translation includes the previously unpublished seven chapters. |
5) The greatness of Sawaki Roshi
14) The hallucination caused by quantity
19) Collecting food and hatching eggs
20) Calculating the difference
21) With a depressed expression
27) Ghosts and the power of suggestion