| Preface | p. xv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Beginningless Beginning | |
| from Cloud, Rock, Scroll | |
| A Bracelet of Turquoise from Aguilar | |
| Disconstitution | |
| from The Stand-in Under Duress | |
| "Let's try to repeat ..." | |
| Oblivion | |
| Big Mood | |
| No Word | |
| To the Being We Are | |
| Zen, Art, and Paradox | |
| Eleven Haiku | |
| Untitled Essay | |
| Sweeping the Garden | |
| from Lumens | |
| Prayer With Martial Stance | |
| Wedding Song | |
| Mercy | |
| from Where'm'Now | |
| from Themes and Variations | |
| "There Is Not Much Difference Between the Two." (Suzuki Daisetz) | |
| Toyama 1982 | |
| Zen? Who Knows? | |
| "The dialectical thinker ..." | |
| "Desire,-- ..." | |
| "Reality Rears Its Ugly Head" | |
| Untitled Essay | |
| Tassajara, 1969 | |
| I Ching | |
| Trajectory | |
| Letter to Jeanne (at Tassajara) | |
| Visit to Katagiri Roshi | |
| from Haiku Studio | |
| Half-Open | |
| For Tu Fu's Bones | |
| The Perfect Dialogue | |
| Down to the Bone | |
| Meditation and Poetry | |
| Untitled Poem # 37 | |
| The Tooting | |
| On Thinking | |
| Pieces from the Night | |
| Lovers' Reunion at the Cavalier Motel | |
| Guessing toward Clarity | |
| Santa Rosa Plum | |
| Two Clouds | |
| from The Chinese Poems | |
| The Way Back | |
| Love for Instance | |
| The Glass Globe | |
| A Ripple of Deer, A Metamorphosis of Bear, A Motaphor of Mountains | |
| Making Salad | |
| Beginner's Mind | |
| In the Mountains | |
| Affirmations | |
| from Meditation and Poetics | |
| Thoughts Sitting Breathing | |
| "What would you do if you lost it?" | |
| Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit | |
| Why I Meditate | |
| Susan Griffin | p. 107 |
| Torture | |
| Born Into a World Knowing | |
| Amnesia | |
| Ocean | |
| Sitting Zen, Working Zen, Feminist Zen | |
| Gnostology | |
| Helenic Triptych | |
| A Dragon in the Clouds | |
| "Thirty-one new yellow daffodils" | |
| Everyday Life | |
| After Reading Takahashi | |
| Dogen's Dream | |
| Counting Birds | |
| Kobun | |
| Walking | |
| The Idea of Balance Is to Be Found in Herons and Loons | |
| From the Notes | |
| Water, Heads, Hamptons | |
| Photograph of a Man Holding His Penis | |
| Today, Somewhat After Dante | |
| Mythos of Logos | |
| Pickerel | |
| The Return | |
| Redwings | |
| Witness | |
| In a Ch'ing Dynasty Painting by Chu Lien | |
| If You Know Me at All | |
| Poetry, Zazen, and the Net of Connection | |
| Recalling a Sung Dynasty Landscape | |
| In That World, the Angels Wear Fins | |
| The Stone of Heaven | |
| November, Remembering Voltaire | |
| Inspiration | |
| Mary Kean | p. 157 |
| Crisp Blue Shirt | |
| Poetry | |
| Reality | |
| Parachute Sestina | |
| Sphinx | |
| Magpie | |
| Going With the Poem | |
| Maitreya | |
| Melencolia | |
| Objections to the Unsatisfactoriness of Cyclic Existence | |
| Horse | |
| The Birdcarver | |
| Coppers | |
| Witching | |
| Opening Day | |
| Brushfire | |
| Buddhism, Art, Practice, Polity | |
| from Rinzai on the Self, ... | |
| Mahakala | |
| 6 Gitanjali for Iris | |
| Printout from "The" | |
| Cold Places | |
| Losing Myself | |
| To Go Through Life Is to Walk Across a Field | |
| November Woods | |
| Allow | |
| Vertebral Mountains | |
| Nuns | |
| from Sonnets From the War Zones: Nicaragua | |
| Some Reveries on Poetry as a Spiritual Discipline | |
| Woodcutting | |
| Mountains and Rivers | |
| Outside | |
| Visit From a Friend | |
| Opening the Cabin at Mid-Winter | |
| Two Poems After Winter | |
| A Small Prayer to Everything | |
| This Day of Spring, We All Go Outside | |
| Ice Fishing | |
| Atoms | |
| Trying to Read in My Study | |
| A Virtual Account | |
| Thomas's Secret Sayings | |
| A Nod to the Numen | |
| Further Fingers for the Further Hand | |
| Morphic Resonance | |
| Sound and Savor | |
| from The Field and Garden of Circe | |
| Vowels | |
| The Hollow | |
| The Table | |
| Thirteen Haiku | |
| A Cycle of Hoops for the First Snow | |
| Twenty Hoops | |
| from The Pearl | |
| Mounting the Poetry Vehicle | |
| Storm Furrows | |
| Notes on a Life in Buddhism | |
| TABLET XXIV | |
| Threads | |
| Waves | |
| Fall Melon | |
| Zen Garden | |
| Seeing | |
| Immersion | |
| Riprap | |
| From Hunting | |
| Song of the Taste | |
| Without | |
| For Nothing | |
| As for Poets | |
| from Little Songs for Gaia | |
| Surrounded by Wild Turkeys | |
| Raven's Beak River at the End | |
| The Bear Mother | |
| At White River Roadhouse in the Yukon | |
| Piute Creek | |
| Who's a Buddhist? | |
| Raven | |
| Nanao speaking | |
| Neither the speaker nor the spoken, ... | |
| Mudra | |
| Untitled Essay | |
| from theforestforthetrees | |
| Death of a Zen Poet: Shinkichi Takahashi (1901-1987) | |
| Translating Zen Poems | |
| Misty Morning | |
| Latest News | |
| Willows | |
| Before the Snake | |
| Retreat Toward the Spring | |
| The Poet Who No Longer Made Use of Words | |
| Entering Into This | |
| from The Beautiful Contradictions | |
| Zen, Poetry, and the Great Dream Buddha | |
| The Marriage Bundle | |
| The Restoration of the World | |
| Spell to Be Recited for Banishing Loneliness | |
| Why the Gods Screw Things Up | |
| Flute | |
| Gender and the Wisdom Body: Secular/Sexual Musings | |
| Makeup on Empty Space | |
| Helping the Dreamer | |
| About Writing and Meditation | |
| All About Art and Life | |
| Opening the Mountain, Tamalpais: 22:x:65 | |
| Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring | |
| The Governors of Zuni (A Photograph) | |
| Nursery Song for Two Sons | |
| Mobius Landscape | |
| Butterfly Effect | |
| About the Editors | p. 343 |
| Credits | p. 344 |
| Index of Titles | p. 351 |
| Index of First Lines | p. 355 |
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