When the small group of foreign students began to attend his Saturday seminar in Tokyo, Sensei asked for our help in editing his English translations. Following are 36 of the chapters that I completed with him over the six years from 1978 to 1983. WIth the exception of Chapter 22 – Bussho (edited by Jeff Bailey and included below), the other chapters completed by Jeff Bailey and Larry Zacchi are no longer available. These translations are more interpretive than the later translations that he made with Mike Cross, and therefore not as close to the original Japanese. Nishijima Roshi used these chapters as the basis for his Saturday lectures in Tokyo until the later translation started to be completed.
Chapter 16 – Shisho – The Certificate of Transmission
Chapter 17 – Hokke-Ten-Hokke – The Wonderful Universe is Moving Itself
Chapter 18 –Shin Fukatoku – Mind is Ungraspable (The Former)
Chapter 19 – Shin Fukatoku – Mind Cannot be Grasped (The Latter)
Chapter 20 – Kokyo – The Eternal Mirror
Chapter 21 – Kankin – On Reading Sutras
Chapter 22 – Bussho – Buddha-nature
Chapter 27 – Zazenshin – A Maxim of Zazen
Chapter 28 – Butsu kojo no Ji – The Matter of Ascending Buddha
Chapter 29 – Inmo – The Ineffable
Chapter 51 – Mitsugo – Secret and Intimate Whispers
Chapter 52 – Bukkyo – Buddhist Scriptures
Chapter 53 – Mujo Seppo – The Non-Emotional Preach the Dharma
Chapter 54 – Hossho – The Universal Essence
Chapter 55 – Darani – Omnipotence
Chapter 56 – Senmen – Washing the Face
Chapter 57 – Menju – The Face-to-Face Transmission
Chapter 58 – Zazengi – The Standard Form of Zazen
Chapter 59 – Baike – Plum Blossoms
Chapter 82 – Shobogenzo Ji-Kuin-Mon – Written Rules for the Temple Kitchen
Chapter 83 – Shukke – Transcending Family Life
Chapter 84 – Sanji no Go – Three Kinds of Time Lapse between Conduct and Its Effect
Chapter 85 – Shime – The Four Kinds of Horses
Chapter 86 – Shukke Kudoku – The Virtue of Transcending Family Life
Chapter 88 – Ki-e Sanbo – Devotion to the Three Supreme Values
Chapter 89 – Shinjin Inga – Profound Belief in the Rule of Cause and Effect
Chapter 91 – Yui Butsu Yo Butsu – Buddhas and Only Buddhas
Chapter 92 – Shoji – Life and Death
Chapter 93 – Doshin – The Will to the Truth
Chapter 94 – Jukai – Receiving the Precepts
Chapter 95 – Hachi Dainingaku – The Eight Great Human Truths
Appendix 1 – Butsu Kojo no Ji – The Matter of Ascending Buddha
Appendix 2 – Ippiaku-Hachi Homyo Mon – The One Hundred and Eight Gates Which Clarify Buddhism