CONTENTS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION – SIMON CHILD

NCF I

A NEW BEGINNING

NCF II

EVERYTHING IS AS IT IS - THIS IN ITSELF IS REMARKABLE

TWO POEMS BY THE GREAT MASTER HSU YUN

SIMPLY AN ABSENCE

NCF III

SERMONS TO THE STONES AND TREES

MEDITATION TALK: "OPENING THE TREASURE HOUSE"

OLD NO EYE

NCF IV

A SERMON AMONG THE STONES AND TREES

NO PATH AT ALL!

NCF V

ZEN AND CHRISTIANITY

NCF VI

THE PRAJNAPARAMITA HEART SUTRA

SERMONS AMONG STONES AND TREES

BOOK REVIEW - A BUDDHISTIC PHILOSOPHY OF ENVIRONMENT

WINTER BUDDHA

NCF VII

THE CH'AN RETREAT WITH MASTER SHENG YEN, MAENLLWYD, APRIL 1992

THE STATE OF THE NATION

INTRODUCING TANTRA TO THE PATH

THE PRAJNAPARAMITA HEART SUTRA A BRIEF COMMENTARY

MAENLLWYD

NCF VIII

CHENREZI COMES TO TOWN.

THE PRAJNAPARAMITA HEART SUTRA- A BRIEF COMMENTARY.

IN CHINESE MODE: THINKING OF A FRIEND

NCF IX

JOHN BECOMES A DHARMA HEIR

EVERYDAY JOY

PILGRIMAGE TO PHUGTAL

LIVING OUT THE LIFE

NCF X

DISCIPLINES

THERE FOR THE TAKING

NCF XI

EDITORIAL FROM THE CHAN HALL

WORDS OF A GURU

THE PLACE OF THE DHARMA IN OUR TIME

XII

A NEW CH'AN HALL: MASTER SHENG YEN AND THE RETREAT OF JUNE 1995

A FELLOWSHIP OF WESTERN CH'AN PRACTITIONERS?

DAD

NCF XIII

AN EDITORIAL FROM THE CH'AN HALL

AUTHENTICITY AND THE PRACTICE OF ZEN

WELSH WINTER: MAENLLWYD

NCF XIV

EDITORIAL FROM THE CH'AN HALL

OBITUARIES

ENJOYING DYING: DON BALL 1914-1995

SOCIAL CRITIQUE AND BRITISH BUDDHISM

THE WESTERN CH'AN FELLOWSHIP: CONSTITUTIONAL DISCUSSION

NCF XV

COMET ABOVE THE YARD

EDITORIAL FROM THE CH’AN HALL

NCF XVI

CREATING A NEW ZEN INSTITUTION:

Bodhgaya

Calcutta

PILGRIMAGE TO KAILAS: The Holy Mountain of Western Tibet.

CH'AN REVIVAL IN MAINLAND CHINA

THE FENCELESS GATE

NCF XVII

EDITORIAL FROM THE CH’AN HALL

VISITING MOTHER

NCF XVIII

WHAT A MESS!

LEADERSHIP TRAINING IN THE WESTERN CH'AN FELLOWSHIP

DANGERS IN DEVOTION: BUDDHIST CULTS AND THE TASKS OF A GURU1

NCF XIX

MAKING STATUES…

FLICKERING LAMP HOTEL

WELSH MANDALA

BOOK REVIEW: LANGUAGE AND FREEDOM: MEANING IN ZEN

NCF XX

EDITORIAL FROM THE CH’AN HALL: This Suffering World

WORKING WITH A MASTER

NCF XXI

EDITORIAL FROM THE CH'AN HALL

ONE THOUGHT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS

APRIL SHOWERS

A BUDDHIST READING LIST

NCF XXII

EDITORIAL FROM THE CH'AN HALL

A NEW PROPOSAL: A LAY ZEN 'MONASTIC CENTRE'

THE PLACE OF CH'AN IN POST-MODERN EUROPE

THE SILENCE

JULY AT MAENLLWYD

NCF XXIII

UNCOVERING THE ESSENCE OF MIND

INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE MONASTERIES

THE REVIVAL OF BUDDHISM IN CHINA

WINTER POEMS

NCF XXIV

THE EXPERIENCE OF TIME

TRAINING TO LEARN, LEARNING TO TRAIN

PASSING THE PESCADORES

NCF XXV

REFLECTION IN THE CHAN HALL

NCF XXVI

ASPIRATIONAL PRAYER FOR DAILY USE

THOUGHTS FROM THE CHAN HALL

IN A DARK TIME

YES

NCF XXVII

PASSING DOWN THE ROBE

SOLITARY OPTIONS: A SCHOOL FOR YOGINS?

LES ROCHES FLEURIES

IS ZEN FOR EVERYONE? Two book reviews

BUDDHIST JOURNEYS IN THE HIMALAYAS 2003

SILENCE AND ILLUMINATION AN INTENSIVE TRAINING RETREAT IN CHINESE ZEN

NCF XXVIII

SELF AT EASE

THE CEASING OF NOTIONS1

BOOK REVIEW: KEN JONES, ARROW OF STONES

NCF XXIX

POLISH MEMORIES

THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH ACTION RESEARCH AND MINDFULNESS RETREAT

NCF XXX

THIRTY YEARS OF MEDITATION IN WALES

GUESTMASTERS IN TRAINING

NCF XXXI

EDITORIAL LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

BIRD DAWN IN MENDIP

CAPEL HAGIA SOFIA

SEPARATION

NCF XXXII

EDITORIAL: THE LONDON ATROCITIES

THE TEN KOANS OF LAYMAN JOHN

EXPLORING THE USE OF KOANS IN CHINESE ZEN

BOOK REVIEW

NCF XXXIII

ZEN AT LAND’S END

FALLING OUT OF YOURSELF

A WCF CENTRE FOR BUDDHIST EDUCATION

NCF XXXIV

DEATH AND DYING

BOOK REVIEW - KIM GUTSHOW, 2004, BEING A BUDDHIST NUN. THE STRUGGLE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT IN THE HIMALAYAS

NCF XXXV

ON MAKING A DIFFERENCE

VISITING SHIFU AND ROSHI JOHN DAIDO LOORI

NCF XXXVI

THE BURMA SITUATION

OLD MYOKYO-NI

OBITUARY - THE VENERABLE MYOKYO–NI

ST MOLAISE OF HOLY ISLAND

NCF XXXVII

RETHINKING

RETHINKING SELF

MAMETZ WOOD

NCF XXXVIII

EDITORIAL - PATHS TO ENLIGHTENMENT?

MEDITATION AND PERSONAL DISCLOSURE: THE WESTERN ZEN RETREAT

NCF XXXIX

Editorial - The Passing of Shifu and the China Journey

Reply to the Venerable Abbot President

The Venerable Chan Master Sheng-yen - A Brief Obituary

The Will of Chan Master Sheng-yen

Valedictory Address, Master Sheng-yen

The China Trip 2008

Ancient Teachers in Full Flow

NCF XL

EDITORIAL - LIVING DHARMA

COMING HOME

HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

IRIS TUTE – IN MEMORIAM

NCF XLI

CONCLUDING APPRECIATION: THE SEARCH FOR NEW WORLD- VIEWS

NCF XLII

MEANING, PURPOSE AND INSIGHT IN WESTERN CHAN: PRACTICE AFTER SHIFU

DAVID CLARK: IN MEMORIAM

WE REMEMBER SALLY MASHEDER

NCF XLIII

THE SUTRA OF COMPLETE ENLIGHTENMENT

SAYINGS OF JEAN-MARC MANTEL

NCF XLIV

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION BY THE LATE JOHN CROOK: THE LONG WALK

THOUGHTS ON JAPAN

DAVID FONTANA – A MEMOIR

NCF XLV

INSPIRING WORDS FROM THE TEACHER

POEM

POEM

TAPPING ON STONES ABOVE PYLLAU CLAIS

SUMMER

LIGHTENMENT

ON PURSUING THAT WHICH LEAVES NO TRACKS

TEISHOS

TEISHO 1: Snowfall

TEISHO 2: A Little Problem Concerning Tails

TEISHO 3: Empty Midnight

TEISHO 4: Accepting the World

TEISHO 5: Being Buddha

TEISHO 6: Preceptual Truth

TEISHO 7: Deviation

TEISHO 8: Scattering

TEISHO 9: The Two Ways of Working with Knowledge

TEISHO 10: Summer Night

TEISHO 11: The Meanings in the Flower

NEW YEAR TEISHO 2011

NEW YEAR’S DAY TEISHO 2

TEISHO 12: On Taking Refuge

TEISHO 13: On Suffering

TEISHO 14: The Arriving Birds

TEISHO 15: The Buddha's Face

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS