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RHE ROARING STREAM | “A NEW ZEN READER Edited by NELSON FOSTER and JACK SHOEMAKER With a “foreword by Robert Aitken ISBN 0-88001-34 $27.50 0 Canada The Roaring the first anthology to bring togcuici: writings by the greatest teachers, poets, and practition- ers in the long history of Zen Buddhism and its Chinese forerunner, Ch’an. Drawn from more than a millennium of Ch’an and Zen literature, it presents one master- piece after another in chronological pro- pression, conveying a vivid sense of the tradition’s sweep and evolution. It is both an ideal point of entry for those exploring Ch’an and Zen for the first time and an essential sourcebook for those with a long- established interest. In the forty-six chapters of this collection, readers meet a cast of characters unparalleled in the annals of world reli- gions, people remarkable for their verve, wisdom, humor, daring, literary gifts, and diversity. Among them are the tradition’s celebrated teachers—Bodhidharma, Hui- neng, Ma-tsu, Nan-chiiian, Huang-po, Chao-chou, Lin-chi, Tung-shan, Yiin- men, Dogen, Muso, Daito, Ikkyt, Bankei, and Hakuin, among others. Equally important, The Roaring Stream also intro- duces a set of lesser-known figures whose lives and writings illuminate facets of the tradition overlooked in conventional his- tories. The editors have searched the vast corpus of Ch’an and Zen especially for works that concern women and lay people, affording us an ovportunity to encounter the likes o no, whose continued | 000092 THE ROARING STREAM THE ROARING STREAM A New Zen Reader 33 Oe) EDITED BY Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker FOREWORD BY ROBERT AITKEN "e FY i San) THE ECCO PRESS Copyright © 1996 by Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker Foreword Copyright © 1996 by Robert Aitken All rights reserved THE ECCO PRESS 100 West Broad Street Hopewell, New Jersey 08525 Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Ontario Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The roaring stream : a new Zen reader / edited by Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker ; foreword by Robert Aitken.—1st. ed. p. cm.—(Ecco companions) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-88001-344-3 (case).—ISBN 0-88001-511-X (pbk.) 1. Zen literature—Translations into English. 2. Zen Buddhism. I. Foster, Nelson, 195 1- II. Shoemaker, Jack, 1946- III. Series. BQ 9264.R63 1996 294.3'927—dc20 96-5151 Pages 369 to 374 constitute an extension of this copyright page Designed by Mina Greenstein The text of this book is set in 10 point Simoncini Garamond 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 FIRST EDITION In memory of Anne Hopkins Aitken and Kenneth Rexroth A monk introduced himself to the teacher Hstian-sha, saying. “I have just entered this monastery. Please show me where to enter the Way.” “Do you hear the sound of the valley stream?” asked Hstian-sha. “Yes,” said the monk. “Enter there! ”