Koans

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Linji's Solitary Brightness (MK38c)
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Zhaozhou's No (GG1)
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What is this?
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Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other (BC87)
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Stone Crypt (MK20)
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Who Am I?
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Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BC1)(BS2)
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Yunmen has a light (BC86)
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Not Knowing Is Most Intimate (MK62)
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Abiding Nowhere the Mind Comes Forth (65b)
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Heart Sutra
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Baizhang's Fox (GG2) (BS8)
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Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d)
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Dogen’s Storehouse of Treasures (MK66)
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Dongshan's Five Ranks
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Linji's There Is Nothing I Dislike (MK38a)
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The Coin Lost in the River (MK64)
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Yunyan Asks Daowu about Hands and Eyes (BC89)
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For Your Benefit (MK48)
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Huineng's Original Face (GG23)
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16 Bodhisattvas Soaking in a Bath (BC78)
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Sickness and Medicine
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Peach Blossoms (MK37) (EV8)
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Fayan's Students Roll Up the Blinds (GG26)
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An Australian Koan (MK41)
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Changsha Goes Wandering in the Mountains One Day (BC36)
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Knock on any door (BC Preface)
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Sun face buddha
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from Linji Discourses
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Hongzhi's Called Back From the Dream (MK34)
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The Diamond Sutra (MK 65b)
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Baling’s Blown-Hair Sword (MK74c) (BC100)
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Baling Haojian’s Three Barriers (MK74c)
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Great Fire at Engakuji
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Dongshan’s Jewel Mirror Samadhi
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Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38)
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Who is Hearing?
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Picking and choosing
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Dark way bird path open hand Dongshan's Three Paths (from The Record of Tungshan)
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Zhuangzi Dreamed He was A Butterfly
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Take the Role of Host (MK38d)
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Vast emptiness nothing holy
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Bodhidharma Comes and Goes (MK43)
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Yunmen reveals the golden wind (BC27)
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Yunmen's one treasure in the center (BC62)
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Yunmen's golden-haired lion (BC39)
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Hakuin's "Praise Song for Meditation"
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Yunmen's Day of the Full Moon (BC6)
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Little Jade (MK47)
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Doushuai’s Three Barriers (MK73c)
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Zhaozhou’s Greatest Way With No Difficulty (BC2)
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Zhaozhou’s Dog (BS18)
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Shelter (MK14)
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Yunmen Says Something in Response (BC14)
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Teachings That Will Last A Lifetime (BC14)
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1
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99 Curves (MK7)
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Ordinary mind is the Dao (GG19)
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What Is Your Light?
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2
Just This is It
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1
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Save a Ghost
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The Stone in Sea of Ilse
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Times of great difficulty
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Give Me the Reaching
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Jiashan wields some gardening tools (BC68)
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Deshan's Enlightenment
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Blue Dragon's Cave
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case 3 BCR
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Woman at the Inn (MK32)
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Yang-Shans Mind & Environment
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Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52)
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Dongshan's Five Ranks (Rank 3)
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Moon face Buddha
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Bodhisattva of Compassion
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Ikkyu's Well (MK22)
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Yunmen's - Talking to a Rock
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The Woman at the Inn (MK32)
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Stone Woman Gives Birth (MK33)
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Step by Step in the Dark (MK72)
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Dongshan's Five Ranks (Rank 4)
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The Land of Demons
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Dongshan's Five Ranks (Rank 1)
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Dalong’s Pure Everlasting Body (BC82)
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Yu the Doughnut Maker (MK75)
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The Green Mountain (BS)
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Luopu was About to Die
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Yanguan's Rhinoceros Horn Fan (BC91)(BS25)
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Yangshan’s Enlightenment (BS62)
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Baling Haojian’s Three Barriers (MK74b)
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The War (MK25)
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Doushuai’s Three Barriers (MK73a) (GG47)
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Gutei's Finger GB 3
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Buffalo through the window (GG38)
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Linji's Blockhead
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Record of Joshu
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What Is This? (BC51)
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Whatever Confronts You Trust the Light Within (Record of Linji)
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Whatever Confronts You Trust the Light Within (Linji Discourses)
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freely I watch the tracks of the flying birds (MK23b)
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Stop the dogs barking at midnight
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In the dark (MK51)
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Sutra: Indra’s Net
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Hongzhi’s Called Back from the Dream (MK34)
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Turning around (MK68)
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Avatamsaka Sutra (Kegonkyo)
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When it's Hot
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Do You Practice?
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Forget the Self and You'll Help Others
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Not Attacking
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Jinniu Dances Before the Meal (BC74)
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ocean of bright clouds
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BCR 96
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What is the Problem?
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Take the Role of Host (MK38d)
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Zhaozhou's Wooden Buddha
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Dongshan's Just This is It
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Yanguan’s Rhinoceros Horn Fan (BC91)(BS25)
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ÇAOSHAN’S DHARMA BODY
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The Diamond Sutra (MK65)
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Learning Speech & Silence GB
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Case 24
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Silence GB
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Hakuins great light
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Renowned Far & Wide
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GG28
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The Valley Stream Runs Dark as Indigo
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What Will Sansheng Eat? (BC49)
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1
Warrior Koans (WK30)
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Great fear is vast and calm (Zhuangzi)
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Hanging by your teeth
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Xizhong Builds Carts
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Dongshan's Each Stitch
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Standing at the edge of a cliff
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Your Original Face Before Your Parents Were Born
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This very heart mind is Buddha
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How are you?
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Hell in an SUV (MK26)
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What Does Essential Nature Look like? (MK28)
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When the Rain Beats Down (MK28d)
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Following the scent of flowers (BCR36)
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Blue Cliff Record 36
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Buddha has no Country
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Layman Pang
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Bodhisattva's Vow Sutra (Torei Zenji)
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1
Who are you?
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1
The Whole World is Medicine
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Linji's What Is It You Lack? (MK38e)
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Dragon Singing in A Dead Tree
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Pang Family's Helping (MK40)
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Talking to a Rock
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yang-shan
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Count the Stars
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Sweet Olive Blossoms (EV18)
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The Sieve (MK58)
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Where have you been?
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Where are you coming from?
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The Girl Comes Out From Meditation GG42
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Catching a catfish with a gourd (WK?)
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Don't Believe it
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Poverty (MK71)
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Kuei-Shan
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Huangpo's Gobblers of Dregs
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BCR11
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1
Tungshan’s Five Ranks
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1
chapter 114
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Oxherding Drawings
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Pillar (MK18)
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Shishuang's Hundred-foot Pole (GG46)
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Crag Called Empty One
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1
Who is speaking?
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Deshan Bowls in Hand Case 13 GG
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The Doughnut Maker (MK75)
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Dark Way
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Baling Haojian’s Three Barriers (MK74a)
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1
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Bird Path Open Hand
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Stone Hitting Bamboo
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Ikkyu’s Well (MK22)
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Dongshan's Three Paths (from The Record of Tungshan)
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1
Crossing the Brook (MK23)
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Bankei's Miracle
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Baling Haojian’s Three Barriers (MK74)
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Ten Thousand Feet Down (MK20)
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Ruyian's Calls to Himself (GG12)
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Layman Pang Falls Down
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Shoushan’s Three Shots at Getting It (BS76)
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Not the flag GG29
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Wuzi's True Qian (GG35)
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Say Something in Response
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Sixteen Bodhisattvas Enter the Bath (BC78)
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1
Each Branch of Coral Holds Up the Moon (MK74c)
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Say a word of zen!
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stop the War
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The Stone in Sea of Isse
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What are the Dharma gates through which the Bodhisattva enters the gate of non-duality
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Mazu's Fanning
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The Fire Across the River (MK2)
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1
Dongshan's Five Ranks (Rank 5)
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1
Daowu and Jianyuan Offer Condolences (BC55)
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For Another (MK50)
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One finger zen
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Book of Serenity Case 84
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Maralung, An Australian Koan (MK41)
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Dark way bird path open hand (Dongshan)
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Maralung
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Master Ma is unwell
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Record of Linji
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Master Yunmen: from the record of the Gate of the Clouds
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Samurai Koans
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from Hakuin
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Good Day
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How do you cross a stream? (from The Record of Tungshan)
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