Chapter 1. Wholeness & Immediacy: "That's Me."
Chapter 3. The Unconscious: "Who Put You in Bondage?"
Chapter 4. Motivation to Practice: Hakuin and the Sound of One Hand
Chapter 5. Tradition & the Third: Huang-po and Gobblers of Dregs
Chapter 6. Idealization: Hui-neng and the Original Face
Chapter 7. Appearance & Reality: The Physical Body
Chapter 8. Change & Unity: Kuei-shan's Buffalo
Chapter 9. Traumatic Dissociation: Ch'ien and Her Soul Are Separated
Chapter 10. Facing Impermanence: Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha
Chapter 11. Desire & Attachment: The Old Woman, the Hermit, and the Young Girl
Chapter 12. Mutual Recognition: Yun-men's Medicine and Disease
Chapter 13. Difference: Liu and Kuei-shan
Chapter 14. The Last Word: Hsueh-feng the Rice Cook
Chapter 15. Doing Things with Words: Feng-hsueh's Speech and Silence
Chapter 16. Intergenerational Karma: Pai-chang and the Fox
Chapter 17. Uselessness: The Koan of Just Sitting
Chapter 18. Wholeness vs. Wholesomeness: The Precepts
Chapter 19. Surrender Submission: No Heat or Cold
Chapter 20. Self-Sacrifice vs. Compassion: Torei Enji's "Bodhisattua's Vow"
Chapter 21. Alive Or Dead: Tao-shuai's Three Barriers
Chapter 22. Endings: Build Me a Seamless Monument
Conclusion Insight: Wash Your Bowls