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• The Ten Oxherding Pictures The protagonist of this poetic picture story, a boy herdsman, stands for none other than you. It is the very "I" that reads these lines through a pair of eyes, the subject of your life, the protagonist of that unique story that is yours. It is what thinks your thoughts, makes your plans, has your desires, and signs your checks: it is what was born of your parents and will die on your deathbed. This "I" is also the starting point of the Zen Buddhist quest.
  
  
• All Things Zen Koan of Zen master Ch'ing Yuan Wei-hsin on emptiness, enlightenment, dependent origination, satori.
  
• Zazenyojinki (Points to Watch in Zazen), by Keizan "Zazen clears up the human-being mind immediately and lets him dwell in his true essence. This is called showing one's natural face and expressing one's real self. It is freedom from body and mind and release from sitting and lying down. So think neither of good nor on evil. Zazen transcends both the unenlightened and the sage, rises above the dualism of delusion and enlightenment, and crosses over the division of beings and Buddha. Through zazen we break free from all things, forsake myriad relations, do nothing, and stop the working of the six sense organs."
  
• How to Practice The essential idea of Zen practice.
  
• Master Hsu Yun's Teachings Dharma discourses by a historical Chinese Ch'an master.
  
• What The Buddha Said
  
• The Ten Precepts
  
• Buddhist Teachings - Basic Buddhism
  
• Bendowa, by Dogen Discusses zazen; more specifically it tells how to perfect the Buddhist way through zazen.
  
• Fukanzazengi "The way is completely present where you are, so of what use is practice or enlightenment? However, if there is the slightest difference in the beginning between you and the way, the result will be a greater separation than between heaven and earth. If th slightest dualistic thinking arises, you will lose your Buddha-mind...."
  
• International Association of Enhancement of Hwadoo Zen Hwadoo Zen. Pages include - Zen that itself is a truth, stupidity of building a house upon sand, how to study Hwadoo.
  
• Fukanzazengi (Rules for Zazen), by Dogen "The true way is universal; so why is training and enlightenment differentiated?"
  
• Ten Oxherding Pictures Famous series of drawings representing the steps in the realization of one's true nature. The ox represents the eternal principle of life, truth in action.
  
• Ten Oxhearding Pictures These pictures originated in China in the 12th century during the Sung Dynasty. In these pictures, the herder is you, the person on the spiritual quest and the ox is the mind.
  
• Essentials of Buddhism Lists out the key points of Buddhism in a nutshell.
  
• Fukan- Zazengi The Way of Zazen Recommended to Everyone. By Eihei Dogen Zenji
  
• Zen Master Seung Sahn's Temple Rules
  
• Teachings of Bodhidharma
  
• GenjoKoan, by Dogen "When all things are the Buddhadharma, delusion and enlightenment exist, training exists, life and death exist, Buddhas exist, all-beings exist. When all things belong to the not-self, there are delusion, no enlightenment, no all beings, no birth and decay. Because the Buddha's way transcends the relative and absolute, birth and decay exist, delusion and enlightenment exist, all-beings and Buddhas exist. And despite this, flowers fall while we treasure their bloom; weeds flourish while we wish them dead."
  
• BuddhaNet File library Dozens of .zip files of Zen teachings
  
• Dogen's Writings about Time "... Don't try to measure this by your mind. Don't try to explain it by your words. When you let go of your body and mind and forget them completely, when you throw yourself into the Buddha's abode. When everything is done by the Buddha, when you follow the Buddha Mind without effort or anxiety - you break free from life's suffering and become the Buddha."
  
• What do you think, my friend? Selection of writings on Buddhism
  
• Hakuin "In the realm of the thousand buddhas He is hated by the thousand buddhas; Among the crowd of demons He is detested by the crowd of demons. He crushes the silent-illumination heretics of today, And massacres the heterodox blind monks of this generation. This filthy blind old shavepate Adds more foulness still to foulness."