Table of Contents
Editor's Foreword xi
Notes on Looking Backward while Walking Forward xvii
Part 1 A Buddha and A Buddha
Notes on the Joy and Catastrophe of Relationship 3
1 When You Greet Me I Bow 11
2 No Teachers of Zen 19
3 Falling in Love 29
4 Leaving Home, Staying Home 35
5 Stages of Monastic Life 41
6 Wash Your Bowls 53
7 On Spiritual Friendship 63
Part 2 Form Is Emptiness
Notes on Thinking, Writing and Emptiness 73
8 Beautiful Snowflakes 79
9 What Is Your Body? 87
10 A Mother's Death 95
11 Impermanence Is Buddha Nature 99
12 Suffering Opens the Real Path 107
13 Everything Is Made of Mind 119
14 On Looking at Landscape 127
15 Beyond Language 133
16 Phrases and Spaces 141
Part 3 East/West
Notes on Cultural Encounter 149
17 On Dogen's Shobogenzo 157
18 The Place Where Your Heart Is Kept 165
19 Why Do We Bow? 173
20 Applied Dharma 175
21 Putting Away the Stick 185
22 On God for Sue 187
23 Reencountering the Psalms 195
24 The Two Worlds 211
Part 4 Difference and Dharma
Notes on Social Engagement 223
25 Quick! Who Can Save This Cat? 233
26 On Being an Ally 241
27 Buddhism, Racism, and Jazz 245
28 The Sorrow of an All-Male Lineage 255
29 On Difference and Dharma 261
30 On Forgiveness and Reconciliation 267
31 We Have to Bear It 275
32 The Religion of Politics, the Politics of Religion 279
33 Contemplating Climate Change 287
34 No Beginning, No Ending, No Fear 293
35 The Problem of Evil 299
Acknowledgments 307
Notes 309
Publication Credits 311