Elise Yoko Watanabe - The Chan Whip Anthology: A Companion to Zen Practice

The Chan Whip Anthology The Chan Whip Anthology A Companion to Zen Practice z Translated by JEFFREY L. BROUGHTON WITH ELISE YOKO WATANABE Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the Universitys objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Oxford University Press 2015 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization.

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Spiritual lifeZen Buddhism. I. Broughton, Jeffrey L., 1944- II. Zhuhong, 15351615. Chan guan ce jin. III.

Zhuhong, 15351615. Chan guan ce jin. English. IV. Title. BQ9288.Z5813 2014 294.3444dc23 2014009445 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper For Hakeda Yoshito(19241983)If we are to discussthis matter: Its just like poling a boatupstream against the river currentyoull go upriver[i.e., lift the huatou/the cue to full awareness] by one polelength, and youll fall back [i.e., produce deluded discrimi-nation] by ten pole lengths.

Youll go up by ten pole lengths,and youll fall back by a hundred pole lengths. The moreyou pole, the more youll fall backfalling back over andover again. Even if youve fallen back to the very floor ofthe great ocean, take the prow of the boat and turn it backaroundyou absolutely, positively must keep poling uptowardsthat. If you possess this kind of ambition and for-titude, then you will arrive at thehome situation. As withpeople who go up a mountain, each one of them makes theeffort on his own.This matter, in fact, [deliberately] puts you into an anti-thetical positionjust like that of a sum fighter aboutto lock horns with his opponent. The moment you harboreven the slightest thought of fearthe moment you alloweven the finest dust particle of discriminatory thought tolinger within your mindhow will you avoid losing nineout of ten bouts? Even before contact has been made,your life will belong to the opponent.

But if you have theiron-and-copper eye [i.e., the eye that sees right througheverything], if you are filled with the fury that leaves youspeechless, you will smash [your sum opponent/your cue]to pieces in a single blowin one single gulp. Supposeyou lose your life [in the process, not just in the presentbirth but over and over again] for a thousand births andten thousand aeons: you will never lose this mind-set.Practitioners! If you can in this way come to know yourmistake [i.e., harboring fear and discriminatory thought],if you can in this way apply the whip [of zeal], there willbe a specific day that you will achieve success and chop off[the sensation of] indecision-and-apprehension. Strive on!Strive on! from Chan Master GaofenG YuanMiaosessentials of Chan (1294) CBETA, X70, no. 1401, p. 706, b16-c1 // Z 2:27, p. 356, a1 // R122, p. 710, b10-p. 711, a1 (the first saying also appears in Chan Master Gaofeng Yuanmiaos SayingsRecord; CBETA, X70, no. 1400, p. 686, c9-12 // Z 2:27, p. 336, c9-12 // R122, p. 672, a9-12) ContentsBamboo-Window Yunqi Zhuhongs Bamboo-Window Jottings ( Zhuchuang suibi ) in Yunqi fahui (CBETA, J33, no. B277, p. 44, a2-4) Miscellaneous notes on a variety of subjects, many Buddhist CBETA Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association, http:// www.cbeta.org. Chan Whip Yunqi Zhuhongs Whip for SpurringStudents Onward through the Chan BarrierCheckpoints ( Changuan cejin ; T.2024.48.1097c10-1109a16) Anthology of extracts from Chan records dating from the late Tang dynasty to the Ming dynasty; also includes extracts from sutras and treatises; many with Zhuhongs appended comments Chikus Araki Kengo , ed. Chikus zuihitsu: Minmatsubukky no fkei : . Chikus zuihitsu: Minmatsubukky no fkei : .

Fukuoka: Chgoku shoten, 2007. Annotated modern Japanese translation of Yunqi Zhuhongs miscellany Bamboo-WindowJottings ( Zhuchuang suibi ) Daie sho Araki Kengo , trans. Daie sho , Zen no goroku 17. Tokyo: Chikuma shob, 1969. Annotated modern Japanese translation of DahuisLetters ( Dahui shu ), mostly to laymen inter ested in Chan xii Abbreviations F (for Fujiyoshi) Fujiyoshi Jikai , trans. Zenkan sakushin , Zen no goroku 19.

Tokyo: Chikuma shob, 1970. Annotated modern Japanese translation of Yunqi Zhuhongs anthology Whip for SpurringStudents Onward through the Chan Barrier Checkpoints ( Changuan cejin ) K (for Kgi) Wakao Gyzan . Zenkan sakushin kgi . Tokyo: Kykan, Meiji 42/1909. Available online in the National Diet Librarys Digital Library from the Meiji Era, http://kindai. da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/899711/1.

Meiji-period course of lectures on Yunqi Zhuhongs Whip for Spurring Students Onwardthrough the Chan Barrier Checkpoints ( Changuan cejin ). Many of its glosses have been inserted directly into the translation within brackets. Mujaku Dchs Mujaku Dch . Daie Fukaku zenji sho krjuKrju . Kyoto: Zen bunka kenkyjo, 1997. 1581, p. 358, c6 // Z 2B:17, p. 202, b1 // R144, p. 403, b1) Anthology of extracts from the records of ten Ming dynasty Chan masters, with Zhuhongs appended comments S (for Senge) Jikugy Keizan . Zenkan sakushin senge . Zenkan sakushin senge .

Kyoto: Baiy shoin , n.d. Interlinear commentary on Yunqi Zhuhongs Whip for Spurring Students Onwardthrough the Chan Barrier Checkpoints ( Changuancejin ) dated 1836 (corrects and supple ments a lost interlinear commentary commissioned by Hakuin Ekakus [; 16851768] disciple Trei Enji [; 171192]). This commentary Abbreviations xiii has been invaluable in translating the Changuancejin. It is a traditional woodblock print in two font sizes: the text itself in large font, and commentary in small font. The small-font commentary is of two formats: discursive endnote-type annotations; and words or phrases inserted directly into the large-font text to enable ease of reading. inserts. inserts.