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And Yet... And Yet...

Table of Conents

Cover Letter
General Introduction
General Introduction Works Cited
An Invitation: In The Beginning Let There Be
Chapter One

Wetter When Wet: A Commentary on Dogen's Genjo Koan in Poems

Chapter One Introduction
Chapter One Introduction Works Cited
On the Title
Desert Tells the Prophet's Foot What Feet Tell Sand; The Grammar of Law is Law

1) Birth and Death Sleepwalk into the Wild
2) Farming Difference
3) Kinds of When
4) Varieties of Alreadiness

Two Memos Circulating in the American Prescribed Iconoclasm Training Institute

1) A Proposal to Democratize Non-Duality
2) What the Receding Tide of a Shared Ocean Leaves
As Soon As (That is to say When) When Does Not Appear
Unhatchability of Eye's Eggs (The contents of her invitation)
Sides of When
Stolen Answers to a Test of the Institute's No Mystical Realist Left Behind Program
Existence, That Soup of Experience
Everything in Which Nothing is Seen
Initial Grammar of Iconoclastic Cliches: "Experience is my Favorite Soup"
But! (Yasutani 40)
The Entry for "Snail" in the Complete Concordance of Therefore
Therefore Feet Ask Sand the Whereabouts of a Prophet's Footprints
Traces of Father Snail Cosmos

Chapter One References

Chapter Two

A Future's New Skin: A Commentary on Hyakujo (Jp.) (Pai-chang, Chin.) and the Fox in Poems

Future's New Skin
The Case
The Fox Counts its Tail for Courage
The Pastor's Sunday Reading From the Scriptures
Betrayed Seadrift
The Dream that Fed a Fox
Samson Gives His Testimony to the Wildlife Management Officer Investigating a Reported Abuse of Three Hundred Foxes (Judges 15)
The Pastor’s Stream of Dream Scripture #1
#2 Farmer Oppenheimer’s Dream of The Cosmic Fox Who Becomes
Fox and Silkie Woman Meet
Power Answers Truth
Skin's Past Pasts
Epilogue: Faith in Roots

Chapter Three

The Manynesses: A Commentary on the Sei-ji Koan in Prose and Poems

[Introduction]
Manynesses

1) A Woman Called We
2) Particle
3) Wave
4) The Tendency to Exist

Chapter Four

Be Still and Follow: A Commentary on the Heart Sutra in Poems

On the Scripture's Title

Thorn Poem, The Thicket Poem (Maha … … … …)
Seed Poem (… prajna … … …)
Forest Poem (… … paramita … …)
A Snail's Drink of Dew (… … … hrydaya …)

1) Neptune, 1989
2) I Have Been Examined As Well
3) The Eye With Which We See Is The Eye With Which We Are Seen

Oars Tat tvam asii (… … … … sutra)

On The Sutra

A Snail's Persistence
Snail's Face, Human Heart
Spirit Filled Brain, Body Filled Mind

1) Inter-Nothings
2) The Song of a Snail's God
3) Is it true that only one thing at a time happens to an infinite number of subjects, and that each of them knows that there is an all-at-once at each moment of which they are a miniscule part?
4) The I With Which I See Is The I With Which I is Seen

I Babies in the Sea of a Blindly Fertile Womb ('ehyeh 'aser 'ehyer: I am that I am)
Clear Confusion of a Fog Filled Snail
Love at Rest

Epilogue

References
Recommended Translations and Commentaries