Foreword   6
Teacher's Invitation to Dharma Encounter   9

1. The Still Point of Zazen   13

2. Practice of Everyday Life    26

3. Teachings of the Insentient    36

4. Pearls, Perils, and the Path    49

5. Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen    63

6. Painted Cakes Satisfy Hunger    77

7. Being Born as the Earth    90

8. Instructions to the Cook    108

9. Monastic Rule and Lay Life   119

10. Mystical Realism   130

11. Making Visible the Invisible   139

12. Cause and Effect Are One   153

13. Enlightenment Is Delusion   164

14. Just Avoid Picking and Choosing   177

15. Neither Good nor Evil   182

16. The Mountains and Rivers Sutra   197

17. Mind-to-Mind Transmission   205

18. Actualizing Wisdom   215

19. Beyond Form and Emptiness   227

20. Zen Warnings   238

    Acknowledgments   250
    Glossary of Buddhist Terms   251