Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Pre Face -- Mitsu Suzuki -- Haiku -- Soyen Shaku -- En Route to America -- Kyozan Joshu -- "Whenever I hear …" -- Derek Walcott -- Love after Love -- Norman Fischer -- Sesshin Poem -- A Model of the Universe -- Lawson Fusao Inada -- In/Vocation -- Gary Snyder -- How Poetry Comes to Me -- Song of the Taste -- Avocado -- Saying Farewell at the Monastery after Hearing the Old Master Lecture on "Return to the Source" -- As for Poets -- Without -- Earth Verse -- Nanao Sakaki -- Just Enough -- Top Ten of American Poetry -- "If you have time to chatter …" -- Sugar Loaf Hill -- Jack Kerouac -- from The Scripture of the Golden Eternity -- Orizaba Blues: 64th Chorus -- Orlanda Blues: 24th Chorus -- Bath Tub Thought -- To Edward Dahlberg -- Haiku -- Albert Saijo -- BODHISATTVA VOWS -- Bob Kaufman -- "… solitary thoughts on death and other illegal mysteries …" -- "THE TRIP, DHARMA TRIP, SANGHA TRIP …" -- Al Young -- Third Street Promenade -- Full Moon, Sunday Night, Santa Monica -- Philip Whalen -- "Off. …" -- "Take dandelions first salad, …" -- "Absolute …" -- "hoist great blocks of language into place …" -- "PET SHOP …" -- "The End of the line. …" -- SATURDAY -- Joanne Kyger -- "Never talk ahead …" -- "Duncan's class met last night …" -- "It's a great day …" -- "Bird family …" -- Dream -- "Oh Man is the highest type of animal existing …" -- The Empty Shrine Buddha -- Patricia Donegan -- Something Happened -- Half-Open -- "Tonight …" -- Andrew Schelling -- Run My Hand Under -- Anne Waldman -- Yum Yab -- Rick Fields -- The Very Short Sutra on the Meeting of the Buddha and the Goddess -- Steve Sanfield -- "Alone in the house …" -- Gary Rosenthal -- Wild Hooves -- Gillian Coote -- You -- Jane Hirshfield -- The Adamantine Perfection of Desire -- Mitsu Suzuki -- "Swiftly walking away …".

Jaan Kaplinksi -- "Once I got a postcard …" -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Journal entries -- Garrett Hongo -- Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi -- Alan Chong Lau -- wintermelon -- bittermelon -- eating habits of the old man -- morning reflections over the miso soup -- Russell Leong -- What Does the Body Dream at Rest? -- Threads -- Paula Yup -- The Things I Miss -- Telly Wong -- Loneliness -- Mitsu Suzuki -- "Summer butterfly …" -- William R. LaFleur -- Wedding Party -- Steve Sanfield -- Birthday Poem -- Judyth Collin -- The Layman's Lament -- John Tarrant -- Han Shan in Santa Rosa -- Caitlin O'Donnell -- Footprints -- Alex Marlowe -- He Does Not Give the Reader One Line of Information -- Jessemyn Meyerhoff -- snow -- the resounding echo of the buddha's words -- a million times -- Nova Ray -- The Last Flower -- Jamie Meyerhoff -- On Impermanence -- Three Ravens -- Allison Harris -- Nothing Much -- Will Staple -- Shen Tao -- Jordan Jones -- Zen Baker -- Gillian Coote -- Tenzo's Song -- Al Robles -- Ryokan the Crazy Snow Poet -- Nina Wise -- To Papaji -- William Larsen -- Surrender -- Tom Greening -- My Children Visit the Zendo -- Sarah Arsone -- A Father's Poem -- Miriam Sagan -- "Winter burn" -- Diana Levy -- Honey -- Dan Clurman -- The Berkeley Marina at Dusk -- To David -- Susan Griffin -- Born into a World Knowing -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- We Never Know -- 2527th Birthday of the Buddha -- bell hooks -- as they bury the dead -- Thich Nhat Hanh -- Please Call Me by My True Names -- Ted Sexauer -- The Well -- The Ambivalent Nature of Healing -- Poem for Têt -- Claude AnShin Thomas -- "As / the / soldiers …" -- "A / bullet / slams …" -- "Alone / with only …" -- "Anyone can …" -- Jim Cohn -- On Non-Violence & Observation -- Thich Nhat Hanh -- The Witness Remains -- Lorenzo Thomas -- MMDCCXIII ½ -- Thulani Davis -- Aria from X: "I would not tell you …".

Thich Tue Sy -- Stone Walls -- Hermit Thoughts -- A Cup of Clear Water -- Anonymous Tibetan nuns -- "Looking through the window …" -- "The fragrance of the lotus …" -- "My country wasn't sold, it was stolen …" -- Patricia Donegan -- Check Up -- Gary Rosenthal -- Ghetto Dokusan -- Daigan Lueck -- "You want to climb the steps …" -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Millennium Cities -- Ecolog -- At Kenneth Rexroth's -- Kenneth Rexroth -- "Water is always the same - …" -- Void Only -- Thomas Merton -- "I am about to make my home …" -- Czeslaw Milosz -- Gift -- Stephen Mitchell -- Bamboo -- Orchid and Rock -- The Sense of Proportion -- Robert Aitken -- Gathas -- Tassajara Zen Mountain Center Sangha -- Gathas -- Mitsu Suzuki -- "Soft rain …" -- Jane Hirshfield -- Each Step -- The Heart's Counting Knows Only One -- William Kistler -- Standing Near the Ghats Along the Ganges -- Kyoto I - Kinkaku-ji -- Kyoto II - Ryoanji -- Sam Hamill -- "Wanting one good organic line, …" -- Robert Duncan -- "I have …" -- For the Assignment of the Spirit -- Robert Kelly -- Sermon on Language -- Holy Sonnet -- from The Flowers of Unceasing Coincidence -- Charles Stein -- "My hat vanished. …" -- Shinkichi Takahashi -- Words -- Gary Warner -- Haiku -- John Cage -- from 45' for a Speaker -- Leslie Scalapino -- "A man getting on a bus …" -- Yoko Ono -- Painting to Be Constructed in Your Head -- Painting to Hammer a Nail -- Smoke Painting -- Takehisa Kosugi -- Micro -- Chironomy -- Manodharma with Mr. Y. -- Anima 1 -- Organic Music -- Theater Music -- Mieko Shiomi (Chieko) -- Passing Music for a Tree -- Disappearing Music for Face -- Event for Late Afternoon -- Mirror -- Portrait Piece -- Music for Two Players II -- Allan Kaprow -- "Suppose you telephone your own answering …" -- Laurie Anderson -- Wild White Horses -- Amy Champ -- from Vote for Sun -- Steve Sanfield -- Hoop -- Manzan.

"One minute of sitting, one inch of Buddha …" -- Clark Coolidge -- "ounce code orange …" -- "listene …" -- "by a I …" -- Jackson Mac Low -- "galactic anachronisms enslave assessments" -- Twenties 3 -- "awakening" -- Paul Reps -- Poem Before Words -- Richard Kostelanetz -- A to Z -- Kazuaki Tanahashi -- Six characters from the Heart Sutra -- Paul Reps -- Poem Before Words -- Paul Reps -- Poem Before Words -- Thich Nhat Hanh -- "Reverence …" -- Ngodup Paljor -- The Way -- Peter Bailey -- "Don't …" -- Kazuaki Tanahashi -- "Does the brush paint, or does the ink? Or does the paper, …" -- "Can five hundred paintings be created in one stroke?" -- "One-line poem? Why not one-word poem?" -- Paul Reps -- Poem Before Words -- Shunryu Suzuki -- Beginner's Mind -- Lew Welch -- "Step out onto the Planet. …" -- Peter Bailey -- Practice -- Lawson Fusao Inada -- A Nice Place -- Ness -- In So Doing -- Clearing -- Keep Quiet -- Just Made It -- The List -- Forest Family -- Pledge -- Jonathan Greene -- Ruts -- Hut Poem #1 -- Ko Un -- Walking down a mountain -- Ripples -- Asking the Way -- Baby -- Annihilation -- Atanu Dey -- The Buddha and I -- Peter Levitt -- The Measure -- from 100 Butterflies -- Steve Sanfield -- "I like my poems short …" -- A Poem for Those of You Who Are Sometimes Troubled by Barking Dogs and Low Flying Jets -- Concern -- Diane di Prima -- "black & white cat …" -- "after months of sitting …" -- "the pine shadow falls on the tent wall …" -- Three "Dharma Poems" -- I Fail as a Dharma Teacher -- Buddhist Ruminations -- Chögyam Trungpa -- Haiku -- Sakyong Mipham -- Snow Fell Twice, the Sun Always Shone -- Allen Ginsberg -- "Sitting crosslegged on a wooden floor …" -- "The moon in the dewdrop is the real moon …" -- Selected American Sentences and Haiku -- Manhattan May Day Midnight -- New Stanzas for "Amazing Grace" -- Taigen Dan Leighton.

"Giving Buddha to all beings is giving to oneself. …" -- All of Us So Close to Buddha -- Mariane Baggers Eriksen -- "I dropped something. I picked it up …" -- Hester G. Storm -- Bop for Laotzu -- Adam Yauch -- Bodhisattva Vow -- The Update -- Peter Coyote -- "Do you think …" -- Butch Hancock -- My Mind's Got a Mind of Its Own -- Circumstance -- Susan Griffin -- Summer Night -- Bob Kaufman -- "… there is a silent beat in between the drums. …" -- Thomas Merton -- from In Silence -- Arthur Sze -- The Silence -- Ice Floe -- Patricia Y. Ikeda -- Wood -- Wild Iris -- Ok-Koo Kang Grosjean -- Iris -- Were I a Flower -- Steve Sanfield -- Hoop -- Ok-Koo Kang Grosjean -- Garden -- Wind -- Lew Welch -- Redwood Haiku -- Difficulty Along the Way -- Small Sentence to Drive Yourself Sane -- Large Little Circle -- "I saw myself …" -- Springtime in the Rockies, Lichen -- James Laughlin -- What Is Hoped for -- Dainin Katagiri -- Peaceful Life -- "You are nearly as old as the number of years it has been …" -- Seung Sahn -- "Good and Bad are eminent teachers. …" -- "The mountain sinks into the sea …" -- Taizan Maezumi -- "Untransmittable & moving eastward. …" -- Etsudo Nishikawa -- "Round, round, more round than the moon -- …" -- Bernard Tetsugen Glassman -- Ascending the Mountain -- Tenshin Reb Anderson -- To Bodhidharma -- To My First Teacher -- Sojun Mel Weitsman and Zen Center Sangha -- Mondo -- Michael Wenger -- Zen Corners -- Jaan Kaplinski -- "Shunryu Suzuki …" -- Amy Uyematsu -- Tea -- Lone Pine -- Arthur Sze -- Fauve -- Wang Wei -- Deer Park -- Wendy Johnson -- River Meditation -- Robert Sund -- The Frog I Saved from a Snake -- Two Poems for the Good Given -- Robinson Jeffers -- Carmel Point -- Jim Cohn -- Jemez Mountains Meditation -- Anita Barrows -- "How many million years before wood turns to stone? …" -- John Tarrant.

The Hula Dancers Dance the Hula, Kilauea the Caldera.