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99 Curves (MK7)
1
0
1
1
3
A Donkey Sees a Well (BS52)
5
0
3
0
5
A Matter of Special Worth
5
0
0
0
5
A Stone Drenched with Rain (MK19)
1
0
1
0
2
Abiding Nowhere (MK65b)
0
0
0
1
1
Abiding Nowhere the Heart-Mind Comes Forth (MK65b)
11
0
4
0
13
Alive or Dead? I Won't Say (BCR 55)
0
0
0
4
4
Alive or Dead? I Won't Say (BCR55)
0
0
0
1
1
Alone and Poor (GG10)
2
0
2
0
2
Amnesty (BCR24)
1
0
0
0
1
An Australian Koan (MK41)
1
0
0
0
1
Atom of Samadhi
1
0
0
0
1
Avatamsaka Sutra: Indra's Net
1
0
0
1
2
Baizhang's Fox (GG2) (BS8)
1
3
1
3
7
Baling Haojian’s Three Barriers (MK74)
1
2
1
1
5
Baling's Falling into a Well (MK74b)
5
0
2
2
8
Baling's Snow in a Silver Bowl (MK74a)(BCR13)
8
1
1
0
9
Baling’s Blown Hair Sword (MK74c) (BCR100)
1
1
1
2
5
Ballad of Tam Lin
3
0
0
0
3
Bankei's Miracle
0
0
2
0
2
BCR50
1
0
0
0
1
Be a Tiger in the Mountains
0
1
0
0
1
Blue Dragon's Cave (BCR3)
4
0
2
0
6
Bodhidharma
1
0
1
0
2
Bodhidharma Comes and Goes (MK43)
2
0
1
1
4
Bodhidharma Sets the Mind to Rest (GG41)
3
0
0
0
3
Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2)
5
0
4
1
8
Bodhisattva of Compassion
0
0
0
2
2
Bodhisattva Vows
0
0
1
2
2
Bodhisattvas Come Eat Your Rice
1
0
0
0
1
Buddha Has No Country
1
0
0
0
1
Buddha's Hand (MK16)
2
0
3
0
4
Buddha's Life
0
0
1
0
1
Buffalo through the Window (GG38)
0
0
1
2
3
Caoshan's Dharma Body (BS52)
0
0
1
0
1
Catching a Catfish with a Gourd
0
0
0
1
1
Changsha Wandering in the Mountains (BCR36)
2
0
0
4
6
Chapter 114
0
0
0
1
1
Counting (MK8)
1
0
0
0
1
Crag Called Empty One
1
0
0
0
1
Crossing the Brook (MK23)
0
1
0
0
1
Dahui's Great Doubt
1
0
0
0
1
Daodejing #25
1
0
0
0
1
Daowu and Jianyuan Offer Condolences (BCR55)
0
0
0
1
1
Deshan's Bowls in Hand (GG1)
1
0
0
0
1
Deshan's Enlightenment (GG28)
3
0
1
1
4
Do You Practice?
1
0
0
1
2
Dogen's Turn Your Light Inward
0
0
1
0
1
Dogen’s Storehouse of Treasures (MK66)
3
0
1
3
7
Dogs at Midnight (MK4)
1
0
0
0
1
Dolphins (MK10)
1
0
0
0
1
Don't Believe It
1
0
4
0
4
Donghan's Five Ranks (2nd)
5
0
1
0
5
Dongshan Sick (BS94)
2
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3
0
2
Dongshan's Cold and Heat (BCR43)
1
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3
0
4
Dongshan's Each Stitch
1
0
2
1
2
Dongshan's Five Ranks
3
0
1
4
8
Dongshan's Five Ranks (1st)
12
0
2
4
17
Dongshan's Five Ranks (3rd)
1
0
1
0
2
Dongshan's Five Ranks (4th)
1
0
1
0
2
Dongshan's Five Ranks (5th)
1
0
1
0
1
Dongshan's Five Ranks (The Record of Dongshan)
0
0
0
1
1
Dongshan's Just This Is It
1
0
0
1
2
Dongshan's No Grass
1
0
0
0
1
Dongshan's Three Paths
3
1
1
4
7
Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52)
3
1
0
1
5
Dongshan’s Jewel Mirror Samadhi (BCR13)
1
0
0
4
5
Doushuai’s Third Barrier (MK73c)
0
2
0
1
3
Doushuai’s Three Barriers (MK73) (GG47)
0
0
1
0
1
Doushuai’s Wild Places (MK73a)
1
0
0
1
2
Dragon Singing in a Withered Tree
3
0
3
0
4
Each Branch of Coral Holds Up the Moon (MK74c)
2
0
2
2
3
Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2)
7
0
4
3
13
Enter There
0
0
1
0
1
Fayan's Students Roll Up the Blinds (GG26)
1
1
2
1
5
Fayan's Where Is the Boat?
1
0
0
0
1
Find Something That Is Not Medicine
1
0
0
0
1
Fire at the End of the Universe
1
0
1
3
4
Following the Scent of flowers (BCR36)
3
0
1
0
4
For Another (MK50)
0
0
0
1
1
For Your Benefit (MK48)
0
1
4
6
9
Forget the Self and You'll Help Others
0
0
2
0
2
Free and Easy Wandering
2
0
0
0
2
Freely I Watch the Tracks of the Flying Birds (MK23b)
4
1
2
0
5
Ghost (MK17)
4
1
2
0
7
Ghosts Howl & Spirits Wail (BCR 59)
0
0
1
0
1
Give Me the Reaching
2
0
1
0
3
Going to Wild Places (MK73)
4
0
0
0
4
Great Fire at Engakuji (BCR 29)
3
0
1
1
4
Guanyin
0
0
0
2
2
Guishan's No Foundation to Rely On
1
0
3
0
2
Guishan’s Zen (MK67)
1
0
1
0
1
Hakuin's Great Light
1
0
0
0
1
Hakuin's Praise Song for Meditation
5
0
2
2
9
Hakuin's Silver Cliff & Iron Mountains
0
0
1
0
1
Hanging by Your Teeth (GG5)
1
0
3
1
3
Hanshan's Tree (MK39)
1
0
0
0
1
Heart Sutra
5
0
4
4
13
Hell in an SUV (MK26)
2
0
1
1
3
Hermit of Lotus Flower Peak (BCR25)
1
0
0
0
1
Hongzhi's Called Back from the Dream (MK34)
3
0
0
3
6
How Are You?
1
0
1
0
2
How Do You Cross a Stream? (Record of Dongshan)
0
0
0
2
2
Huangbo's Gobblers of Dregs (BCR11)
1
0
0
0
1
Huanglong Huinan's Three Turning Words (MK16)(GG49)(EV10)
0
0
1
0
1
Huineng's No North and South
1
0
2
0
3
Huineng's Original Face (GG23)
7
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5
3
7
I Know for Myself if It Is Warm or Cold
1
0
0
0
1
I Vow To Do Good
1
0
0
0
1
I Vow To Do Good for Others
1
0
0
0
1
I Vow To Do No Harm
1
0
0
0
1
I Vow To Live the Great Buddha Way
1
0
0
0
1
I Vow to Set Endless Heartache to Rest
1
0
2
0
3
I Vow to Walk through Every Wisdom Gate
1
0
0
0
1
If You Are Scorned (BCR97)
0
0
3
0
1
If You Get It the First Time You Hear It
1
0
1
0
1
Ikkyu's Attention!
1
0
0
0
1
Ikkyu's Well (MK22)
2
1
1
0
4
In the Dark (MK51)
0
0
0
1
1
Indra’s Net (Sutra)
1
0
0
0
1
It Just Avoids Picking & Choosing (BCR2)
9
0
3
4
15
Jade Elephant
0
0
1
0
1
Jiashan Gardening (BS68)
1
0
1
1
3
Jiashan Meets the Boat Monk
0
0
0
1
1
Jiashan's State of Mind (EV99)
6
0
1
0
7
Jinniu Dances before the Meal (BCR74)
0
0
1
1
1
Journey Itself Is Home
2
0
0
0
2
Juifeng Does Not Acknowledge (BS96)
1
0
0
0
1
Just This Is It
7
0
1
1
9
Juzhi's One Finger Zen (GG3) (BS84)
2
0
1
0
3
Juzhi's One Finger Zen (GG3) (BS84)
1
0
0
0
1
Kanzeon
1
0
1
1
3
Knock on Any Door (BCR)
6
0
2
1
9
Lankavatara Sutra
1
0
0
0
1
Laozi's True Traveler
1
0
2
0
3
Layman Pang
1
0
0
0
1
Layman Pang Falls Down
1
0
0
0
1
Learning Speech & Silence (GG24)
1
0
0
0
1
Linji's Blockhead
1
0
0
1
2
Linji's Nothing I Dislike (MK38a)
3
0
1
3
7
Linji's Solitary Brightness (MK38c)
10
0
1
4
13
Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d)
9
0
4
2
13
Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38)
2
0
4
3
7
Linji's True Place (MK38d)
1
0
0
3
4
Little Jade (MK47)
1
0
2
3
6
Loch Ness Monster (MK11)
2
0
0
0
2
Luopu Was About To Die
0
0
2
1
2
Make the Mountains Dance (MK5)
1
0
0
0
1
Maralung: An Australian Koan (MK41)
1
1
0
0
2
Maralung's Song (MK41)
1
0
1
0
2
Master Ma Is Unwell (BCR3)
0
0
1
0
1
Master Ma's Wild Duck (BCR53)
1
0
0
0
1
Mazu's Fanning
1
0
0
0
1
Mazu's Make Yourself a Raft
9
1
2
1
12
Mazu's Purpose of Your Life
5
0
1
0
6
Mazu's Your Own Heart Mind
3
0
0
0
3
Moon Face Buddha (BCR3)
1
0
1
0
2
Muzhou Shuts the Door
0
0
0
1
1
Not for Anything Else (BCR11)
1
0
0
1
2
Not Knowing Is Most Intimate (MK62)(BS20)
8
0
4
5
14
Not Picking & Choosing (BCR 58)
1
0
0
0
1
Not the Flag (GG29)
1
0
0
0
1
Nothing Holy (BCR1)(BS2)
1
0
1
0
2
Nothing to Complain About
2
0
0
0
2
Ocean of Bright Clouds
1
0
0
0
1
One Finger Zen
1
0
0
0
1
One Speck of Dust (BCR19)
1
0
0
0
1
One Strip of White Silk (BS96)
1
0
1
0
1
Ordinary Mind Is the Way (GG19)
5
0
3
3
10
Pang Family's Helping (MK40)
1
0
1
0
2
Peach Blossoms (MK37) (EV8)
17
2
6
1
24
Peach Trees Make a Path (BS79)
3
0
0
0
3
Pillar (MK18)
0
1
0
0
1
Poverty (MK71)
1
0
1
0
2
Quick! (MK57)
0
0
1
0
1
Record of Linji
0
0
0
4
4
Record of Linji
1
0
0
0
1
Record of Zhaozhou (Joshu)
0
1
0
0
1
Refuges
0
0
1
0
1
Renowned Far & Wide
1
0
0
0
1
Ruyian's Calls to Himself (GG12)
0
0
1
0
1
Samurai Koans
1
0
0
0
1
Samyuktagama Sutra
1
0
0
0
1
Sandokai
0
0
1
0
1
Say a Word of Zen
1
0
2
0
2
Say Something in Response
1
0
2
1
4
Say Something Without Moving Your Lips (MK30b)
1
0
0
0
1
Shelter (MK14)
0
1
1
2
3
Shishuang's Hundred-Foot Pole (GG46)(BS79)
2
1
0
0
3
Shitou's Grass Hut
0
0
0
1
1
Shitou's Turn Your Light Inwards
0
0
1
0
1
Shoushan’s Three Shots at Getting It (BS76)
0
0
1
0
1
Sickness and Medicine (BCR87)
5
0
0
0
5
Silence (GG)
1
0
0
0
1
Silver Mountain & Iron Cliff (BCR 58)
0
0
1
0
1
Sixteen Bodhisattvas Take a Bath (BCR78)
2
0
6
2
7
Snow in a Silver Bowl
2
0
2
0
1
Someone with No Shadow or Form Is Drawing the Water
1
0
2
0
1
Song of Enlightenment - Yongjia Xuanjue
1
0
0
0
1
Speech of Tathatgata
1
0
0
0
1
Standing at the Edge of a Cliff
0
1
0
0
1
Standing on the Point of a Needle (MK36c)
1
0
0
0
1
Step by Step in the Dark (MK72)
3
0
3
1
7
Stone Crypt (MK20)
2
0
5
4
9
Stone Hitting Bamboo
0
0
1
0
1
Stone Woman Gives Birth (MK33)
2
1
0
0
3
Stop Chasing About
1
0
0
0
1
Stop the War (MK25)
1
0
4
1
6
Straight Hook Seeks Fish That Turn Away From Life (MK54)
1
0
1
0
1
Suddenly It's Midnight
2
0
2
0
4
Sun Face Buddha (BCR3)
4
0
1
0
5
Sutra of Complete Enlightenment (BS45)
1
0
1
0
2
Sweet Olive Blossoms (EV18)
0
0
0
1
1
Ta Lung's What Is the Mysterious
2
0
0
0
2
Ta Lung’s Pure Everlasting Body (BCR82)
4
1
1
0
5
Taking Part in the Gathering
8
0
3
18
28
Talking about the Deepest Matters
0
0
2
0
1
Talking to a Rock
1
0
0
2
3
Teachings That Will Last a Lifetime (BCR14)
3
0
0
1
3
Temple Bell (MK1)
2
1
0
0
3
Ten Thousand Feet Down (MK27)
0
1
0
0
1
The Buddha Responds to an Outsider (GG32)
1
0
0
0
1
The Buddha-Heart Emperor
1
0
0
0
1
The Coin Lost in the River (MK64)
4
2
4
0
9
The Dao Is in the Ant
0
0
1
0
1
The Diamond Sutra (MK65)
0
0
0
1
1
The Diamond Sutra (MK65b)
0
0
0
4
4
The Egg (MK53)
3
0
0
0
3
The Fire Across the River (MK2)
2
0
1
1
4
The Four Boundless Vows
9
0
2
1
12
The fresh breeze rises up when the burden is set down.
2
0
0
0
2
The Girl Comes out from Meditation (GG42)
1
0
0
0
1
The Goose in the Bottle (MK63)
1
0
1
1
2
The Great Koan NO (GG1) (BS18)
2
0
1
0
3
The Great Way Is Not Difficult (BCR2)
6
0
5
0
10
The Green Mountain (BS)
0
0
1
1
2
The Land of Demons (EV42)
6
0
2
0
7
The Magical Duke (BCR1)(BS2)
1
0
0
0
1
The Mind Is a Great Artist
1
0
0
0
1
The Moon Sets at Midnight (BS76)
1
0
3
1
3
The Sieve (MK58)
1
0
0
0
1
The Sound of One Hand
1
0
0
0
1
The Sound of Rain
1
0
0
0
1
The Stone Drenched with Rain (MK21)
2
0
0
0
2
The Stone in the Sea of Ise (MK27)
3
0
1
0
4
The Strawberry
0
0
1
0
1
The Teaching Is Upside Down (BCR15)
0
0
1
0
1
The Valley Spirit Never Dies (DDJ6)
1
0
0
0
1
The Valley Streams Run Deepest Indigo
1
0
1
0
2
The Whole Purpose of Your life
1
0
0
0
1
The Whole World Is Medicine (BCR87)
1
0
2
0
3
The Woman at the Inn (MK32)
2
0
0
1
3
This Very Heart-Mind Is Buddha
4
0
2
0
4
Tile Polishing
0
0
1
1
2
Times of Great Difficulty
2
0
2
0
4
Torei Zenji's Bodhisattva's Vow (Sutra)
0
0
1
1
2
Tortoise Mountain Wakes Up (BCR22)
3
0
1
1
4
Turning Around (MK68)
0
0
1
1
2
Vast Emptiness
1
0
1
0
2
Vast Emptiness, Nothing Holy (BCR1)(BS2)
0
0
1
0
1
Warrior Koans (WK30)
0
0
0
1
1
Wash Your Bowls (GG)
2
0
1
0
3
We Are What We Think
0
0
1
0
1
What Am I?
0
0
2
0
1
What Are the Dharma Gates through which the Bodhisattva Enters the Gate of Nonduality
1
0
0
0
1
What Are the Treasures of the Lost Cities?
1
0
0
0
1
What Does Essential Nature Look Like? (MK28)
1
0
0
2
3
What Is Buddha?
6
0
3
2
10
What Is It Like To Be You?
1
0
1
2
4
What Is It Like to Have a Self?
1
0
0
0
1
What Is It You Lack (MK38e)
2
0
0
0
2
What Is It? (BCR51)
1
0
1
1
3
What Is Most Urgent for Me?
1
0
0
3
4
What Is the Problem?
1
0
0
0
1
What Is the Ultimate Nature of Reality?
0
0
0
1
1
What Is the Way?
2
0
2
0
4
What Is This? (BCR51)
4
0
2
0
6
What Is This? (BCR51)
8
0
2
5
13
What Is Your Light? (BCR86)
9
0
0
0
9
What Is Zen?
0
0
0
1
1
What Will Sansheng Eat? (BC49)
0
0
0
1
1
Whatever Confronts You
0
0
3
2
5
Whatever Confronts You Trust the Light Within
1
0
1
1
3
When It's Hot
1
0
0
0
1
When the Rain Beats Down (MK28d)
1
0
1
0
2
When Will You Meet Today?
0
0
1
0
1
Where Are You Coming From?
0
0
1
0
1
Where Do Songs Come From?
0
0
2
0
1
Where Do You Go When You Die?
1
0
4
0
3
Where Have You Come From?
1
0
0
0
1
Where Will You Meet Today?
1
0
0
0
1
Who Am I?
10
0
1
0
10
Who Are You?
0
0
1
1
2
Who Is Hearing?
6
0
4
2
11
Who Is Meditating
2
0
0
0
2
Who Is Speaking?
1
0
0
0
1
Why Can't a Clear-eyed Person Cut the Red Thread? (MK30c)
2
1
1
1
4
Woman at the Inn (MK32)
0
0
1
1
2
Wuzi's True Qian (GG35)
0
0
0
1
1
Xizhong Builds Carts (GG8)
0
0
1
0
1
Yangshan's Mind & Environment
1
0
1
0
2
Yangshan's Sermon from the Third Seat (GG25)
2
0
1
0
1
Yangshan’s Enlightenment (BS62)
1
0
1
0
2
Yanguan's Rhinoceros Fan (BCR91)(BS25)
1
1
3
0
4
You see with your ears and hear with your eyes
1
0
0
1
2
Your Mother Is Ugly!
1
0
0
0
1
Your Original Face before Your Parents Were Born
0
0
3
0
1
Your Own Heart and Mind
3
0
0
5
8
Yu the Doughnut Maker (MK75)
0
1
2
2
4
Yunmen Has a Light (BCR86)
14
0
3
0
17
Yunmen Reveals the Golden Wind (BCR27)
2
0
2
1
4
Yunmen Says It Upside Down (BCR15)
0
0
3
0
1
Yunmen Says Something in Response (BCR14)
1
0
2
2
4
Yunmen's Day of the Full Moon (BCR6)
2
0
2
1
4
Yunmen's East Mountain Walks on the Water (EV49)
2
0
0
0
2
Yunmen's Give Me the Reaching (BCR33)
1
0
1
1
2
Yunmen's Golden-haired Lion (BCR39)
3
0
2
2
5
Yunmen's Good Day (BCR6)
1
0
4
1
5
Yunmen's One Treasure (BCR62)
2
2
3
0
7
Yunmen's Sound of the Bell (GG16)
2
0
0
1
3
Yunmen's Two Sicknesses (BS11)
2
0
0
0
2
Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other (BCR87)
6
0
3
5
12
Yunyan Asks Daowu About Hands and Eyes (BCR89)
5
1
3
3
12
Yunyan's Talking to a Rock
1
0
1
1
3
Zhaozhou Can't Explain (BCR 58)
2
0
1
0
3
Zhaozhou's Beating Heart
0
0
1
0
1
Zhaozhou's Gates (BCR9)
1
0
1
0
2
Zhaozhou's Idiot (BCR 57)
2
0
1
0
3
Zhaozhou's No (GG1)(BS18)
8
1
5
3
17
Zhaozhou's Welcome
1
0
3
0
3
Zhaozhou's Why Don't You Finish It? (BCR 59)
1
0
1
0
2
Zhaozhou's Wooden Buddha (MK56)(BCR96)
1
0
0
0
1
Zhaozhou’s Dog (GG1) (BS18)
1
0
3
1
4
Zhaozhou’s Greatest Way Isn't Difficult (BCR2)
2
0
1
2
5
Zhuangzi Dreamed He Was a Butterfly
1
0
2
3
5
Zhuangzi's Great Fear Is Vast and Calm
0
0
0
1
1

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