Be a Lamp (Nirvana Sutra)
World Honored One Flicks Dirt with His Toe (Vimalakirti Sutra)
Order of Enlightenment (Maka Shikan)
Calming and Contemplation of Anger (Maka Shikan)
Effect of Thunderbolts on Ivory (Maka Shikan)
Blind Heir of a Wealthy Merchant (Maka Shikan)
Mongolian Wisdom (ancient sayings)
Mighty Bodhisattva Warriors (13th Dalai Lama)
Seeing Ourselves as Suchness (Shinnyo kan)
Wu-lung and I-lung (Writings of Nichiren Daishonin)
Parables:
The
Spider Thread
Mr.
Makiguchi and Fudo Myo-o
Taishaku
and the Fine Feathered Bird
A
Little Priest Fable
Shakyamuni
and the Lovers
The
Parable of the Zither
SuShi
and the Buddhist Monk
Wo
and Jah
Stonecutter
(Tao of Pooh)
The
Dancing Monk and the Self-Denying Monk
24
Hours To Die
Essays:
The
Jewel and the Genome
Mantras
of Kitties
The
Mantras of Other Beings
The
Wave Theory of Karma
Water
Karma
Gandhi
on Anger
Buddhas'
Footprints
Connections
The
Great Wish, the DaiGohonzon, and the SGI
The
Gakkai Spirit
Humor:
The
Daimoku Parrot
The
Excommunicated Newlyweds
The Blind Heir of a Wealthy Merchant
Each single mote of dust contains a billion rolls of sutras. [from the Avatamsaka Sutra] Thus, the whole of the dharma of the Buddhas is contained in a thought.[This is an interpreted synopsis of a story in the "Belief and Understanding" chapter of the Lotus Sutra.]— from Great Calming and Contemplation
(an English translation of the Maka Shikan),
pp. 196-197
The ordinary person, subject to the nine states of bondage, fails to perceive or to understand this vast richness. He is like the blind heir of a wealthy merchant, who sits in his treasure chamber utterly unaware of the riches around him. When he moves about, he is impeded and hurt by the jewels instead. In his feverish delirium, he takes the jewels for demons, tigers, dragons, and snakes, so that he abandons them and hastens away, reeling and in pain.— also from Great Calming and Contemplation,
p. 193