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The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans

Wumen Huikai,

Koun Yamada (Translation),

Ruben L.F. Habito (Foreword)

4.23 · Rating details · 695 ratings · 53 reviews

In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism's uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen's greatest collections of teaching stories. This translation was compiled with the Western reader in mind, and includes Koan Yamada's clear and penetrating comments on each case. Yamada played a seminal role in bringing Zen Buddhism to the ...more

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Aug 03, 2018 Fergus rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: philosophy-and-religion

Have you noticed that nowadays people are afraid to think INTUITIVELY? They shouldn't be! Spinoza said many, many years ago that it's the only way to truly UNDERSTAND.

‘Our brains aren’t hats to pull rabbits from, endlessly trying to be clever,’ says the ancient philosopher Mumon (or would say, if he saw the world now) - no, the only way to see ourselves is to look inward intuitively, and see ourselves as a child.

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose -

But once we’ve forever scrambled our thoughts into comp ...more

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Aug 12, 2019 B. P. Rinehart rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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"The worst enemy of Zen experience, at least in the beginning, is the intellect, which consists in discriminating subject from object. The discriminating intellect, therefore, must be cut short if Zen consciousness is to unfold itself, and the koan is constructed to serve this end." -- D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki

I read this book after a series of discussions I had with a friend on the basic ideas of Zen Buddhism. I'm not a Buddhist myself, but I find the idea "The worst enemy of Zen experience, at least in the beginning, is the intellect, which consists in discriminating subject from object. The discriminating intellect, therefore, must be cut short if Zen consciousness is to unfold itself, and the koan is constructed to serve this end." -- D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki

I read this book after a series of discussions I had with a friend on the basic ideas of Zen Buddhism. I'm not a Buddhist myself, but I find the ideas of Zen fairly interesting. On the one hand, Zen Buddhism looks as far from Western philosophy and religion as possible--but looks can be deceiving. The more I have read and learned of Zen Buddhism over the years the more familiar it is to Western philosophy. To me, Zen is one of many forms of trying to advance the overall Buddhist practice of alleviating the suffering and attachments of the material world. The name "Zen" is the Japanese rendering of the Chinese name Chan. Zen is a Chinese sect of the Mahayana denomination of Buddhism and has established itself in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Within Zen you have two schools of thought that I will give both the Chinese and Japanese names respectively and will afterwords refer to them by their Japanese names (Japan follows the Chinese-lines of Zen up to the point where the Zen schools became established in their country). The Caodong\Soto school wants you to get to enlightenment gradually by meditation; The Linji\Rinzai school believes in study and more literary exercise to attain sudden-insight/enlightenment followed by gradual cultivation--the koan plays a big part in this. In the West we call it by its Japanese name because the it was two Japanese monks (Suzuki, who I quoted above & Nyogen Senzaki who translated this particular book) that initially brought it to the West. Zen is a very complex idea to explain in a few lines, but I'll recommend the works of people like D. T. Suzuki if you want to know it all, but I'll try my best to explain some of the concepts that are important to the book I'm here to discuss.

One of the most essential and possibly hardest parts for people to grasp in Zen is 無 which roughly translates as "mu" or nothingness/emptiness. This trips a lot of folks outside of East Asia up because they consider it some sort of expression of nihilism, which it is not. Here is where having an intermediate knowledge of Western philosophy can help. As I understand it, 無 simply means that nothing in the material world can be trusted and nothing outside of it is of any concern since we only perceive phenomena in this world. Plato's Phaedo talks about the Theory of the Forms and that there was a physical world and a meta-physical plane of existence. Plotinus took this and introduced the idea of "The One" that Zen has a corresponding idea. René Descartes postulated that the only real thing that we can perceive is our own existence. Immanuel Kant states in his Critique of Pure Reason that everything has a "ding-an-sich" or "thing-in-itself" that we cannot penetrate in the empirical world. Since we can never penetrate "ding-an-sich" we should ignore them and not concern ourselves too much with the study of meta-physics. Zen goes a step further and says that there is no "sich" or "self" to perceive--but neither is there a lack of "self." That leaves us only "no-self" or none-self a.k.a. 無 (mu). The Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh gives an example of looking at a flower and seeing it, touching it, smelling it. But when you take away it's touch, scent, physical structure, and it's look then you have nothing. Because it can not exist independently of it's material attributes it is 無. Buddhism believes the whole of existence to be like this. Something that does not exist can exist and something that does exist can suddenly not exist; the inability for anything in the universe to be constant is why everything is 無, nothing exist of itself. Now I'm not saying I believe this to be right or wrong--I'm just telling you how I interpret it.

Following from this, and going back to the introductory quote, all attempts to perceive things from conventional, deductive reasoning will not bring you to any real understanding of anything concerning Zen. So the first step to a beginner of Zen is to break this cycle. The job of the koan is to present a mental exercise that breaks the mind from trying to find an established absolutist reasoning. Koans are mental exercises that have no answer and make no real sense. They are meant to be struggled over and to snap the mind into sudden insight and perfect one's wisdom (instead of one's intellect). The koans in this book were gathered by a Chinese Buddhist monk named Wumen Huikai who gathered these mental exercises and supplemented them with his own equally mystifying commentary and some lines of poetry. His commentary is like nothing you find in the great commentators of the West like Avicenna or Averroes. He is as likely to mock or disagree with these koans as he is to praise them--despite being the one who chose to include them! The people who appear in them include earlier Zen Buddhist teachers, Bodidharma the legendary founder of Zen, and even the Buddha himself. No one is above being mocked or used as pawns in the koans. Just for kicks I'll leave this koan complete with Wumen's prose and poetic commentary:

A monk asked Tozan when he was weighing some flax: “What is Buddha?” Tozan said: “This flax weighs three pounds.”

WUMEN’S COMMENT: Old Tozan’s Zen is like a clam. The minute the shell opens you see the whole inside. However, I want to ask you: Do you see the real Tozan?

Three pounds of flax in front of your nose,

Close enough, and mind is still closer.

Whoever talks about affirmation and negation

Lives in the right and wrong region.

In Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki, Suzuki devotes two pages of commentary on just the above koan and says this about koans generally:

"Technically speaking, the koan given to the uninitiated is intended 'to destroy the root of life', 'to make the calculating mind die', 'to root out the entire mind that has been at work since eternity', etc. This may sound murderous, but the ultimate intent is to go beyond the limits of intellection[sic], and these limits can be crossed over only by exhausting oneself once for all, by using up all the psychic powers at one's command. Logic then turns to psychology, intellection into conation[sic] and intuition. What could not be solved on the plane of empirical consciousness is now transferred to the deeper recesses of the mind."

Besides the Western philosophers, reading these koans also took me back to my childhood reading of Paul Sloane's lateral-thinking puzzles. Those books contained mental puzzles that, while having answers, required you to think in a way that defied any easy, straight-forward analysis. The lateral-thinking puzzles are hard, but the Zen koans are impossible because they intentionally have no actual way of being "solved." All I can say is that if you plan to really go into Zen the Rinzai way, this book will keep you busy long-enough to make you really decide if Zen Buddhism is for you. ...more

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Feb 28, 2013 Maurice Halton rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

One can never finish reading The Gateless Gate.

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Jul 03, 2020 Kontrolpian rated it liked it

Shelves: philosophicc, meh

I am not sure if I should be rating the book itself or its contents. I feel quite ambivalent towards both.

On one hand, the koans themselves are interesting pieces—I do not dare classify them as stories or identify them with anything close to a genre. They are short texts, intellectually preposterous; yet as the title of the anthology suggests, there is only a gate if the reader is obstructed by this logical enigma, for if they are not, there is no gate, and one can interpret them instantly. Eve I am not sure if I should be rating the book itself or its contents. I feel quite ambivalent towards both.

On one hand, the koans themselves are interesting pieces—I do not dare classify them as stories or identify them with anything close to a genre. They are short texts, intellectually preposterous; yet as the title of the anthology suggests, there is only a gate if the reader is obstructed by this logical enigma, for if they are not, there is no gate, and one can interpret them instantly. Even as a non-Buddhist with a background in philosophy, I believe the koans, and the skill that is needed to see through them, to have value. In a world in which many of us are compulsive overthinkers, we may need to take the time to learn how to tame our rational thinking, lest it tames us—I believe the koans can help in this regard. Buddhist thought differs greatly from traditional Western philosophy, and though the koans may not be able to be of much use analytically, they may still be able to positively contribute to the journey to emotional wellbeing.

The layout of the book, on the other hand, is strange, and the commentaries repetitive. Pieces of the koans, Mumon’s commentaries and the verses are copied and pasted where it is unnecessary, the structure of Yamada’s explanations are occasionally quite a scramble, and though his writing is not convoluted, it is anything but elegant. The entire book aims at teaching the reader to understand the koans by learning to experience the world without divides or opposites, leaving intellect and logical thinking aside to allow intuition to take the wheel (…of Dharma… git it?). Nevertheless, reading a book is an intellectual activity as it is… and writing that lacks structure and flow even in the slightest degree will make the reader have to make an effort to understand in the very way the book is trying to prevent.

Overall, I am glad to have read it; but whether I would recommend this particular collection… I still cannot say. ...more

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Jun 21, 2016 Chin rated it really liked it

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1.

Only a man with little secrets
Fears being seen.
A man with many secrets can be seen all around
They will never find him

You must be like the frog that has swallowed the Great Mystery

By throwing the past,
To the ruffled pigeons
He removes statistics like a robe

His belly is infinite in heaven and earth.
He will be greater than seven Trump Towers

2.

A monk once came to a master and asked: “How can I find the self?”

The master replied: “Two mirrors make a tunnel which you can crawl to many places. When you ...more

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Feb 05, 2018 Capó-Hernandez Family rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

A Real Mind-Blower

Even with the annotations, there is much to learn from the Koans and the answers to them. A lot of it cannot be understood until you let go of the traditional ways one would answer them. It is important to incorporate the things you have come to know about the Tao, about Non-Dualism, and especially the fact that giving form to something removes the reality from it. Becoming a form that one must grasp to understand.

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Sep 02, 2018 Reed rated it liked it

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This is a book that I plan to return to in the future.....koans obviously take lots of time to sink in.

My rating is not based so much on the koans as the design and layout of this book. I would have preferred a smaller book that could be carried in a pocket. I found many of the commentaries repetitive. The layout is also somewhat obscure....preface upon preface. Some pictures and a dictionary/list of terms would be quite helpful too.

Mu!

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Apr 20, 2019 Florent Diverchy rated it really liked it

Excellent first introduction to koans. Requires a slow reading.
My recommendation: One koan per week.
Day 1: read the koan & reflect on it.
Day 3: read the commentary & continue reflecting on it with this extra information.
Day 5: Search the internet about the koan & continue reflecting on it with this extra information.
This will set the base for an enlightening year!

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May 15, 2014 Leo Kuznetsov rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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There is not enough stars in observable Universe and beyond to rate this book. This is not actually a book. This is probably the only title that holds to be the "Revelation". Not for everyone. You gotta be ready for it. ...more

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Dec 21, 2020 Mert Topcu rated it it was amazing

Not that I read a lot of books about Zen however this is one of the best I've read. Before reading this books I've tried a couple different books about koan. They were pretty mainstream ones that did not really go deeper into the meanings and the roles of the koans. Whereas in this book, Mumon does an amazing job to explain the historical and conceptual contexts around the 40+ koans.
I really enjoyed reading them.
Whack! ...more

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Oct 13, 2017 Joe Santoli rated it really liked it

Its a non-fiction book about Buddhism and chan enlightenment. A Koan is a "public case" meant to be paradoxical for the reader, and to bring about new thought for the reader. Not exactly a fiction, but worth the list because I really enjoyed reading it and thinking about enlightenment. ...more

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Jun 08, 2019 Fereidoon rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: dropped, poetry, buddhism

I’m starting to see that Zen is no exception; Yet another sugary, hollow, dishonest, willfully confused ideology of escape and abuse created by the priestly. It seems our kind of people can hardly survive without a large dose of deepities, for to see onobfuscated is to see the banal and the grey.

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Nov 08, 2018 Kathy rated it it was amazing

should have read this years ago. My edition is actually Koun Yamada Roshi's translation, published by Center Publications, 1979 with a foreward by Taizan Maezumi Roshi. ...more

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Dec 22, 2019 Rita rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mind-benders, mystical-insight, spirituality, consciouness-perception

I will probably come back to this book every 7 years and increase the rating by a 1/2 star every time. Until then, the inner journey of the spirit continues.

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Jan 26, 2020 Arnel Šarić rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Either zen masters were godlike humans or the biggest trolls in the known and unknown universes. Still not sure.

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Jun 19, 2020 Tiffany Rosenqueen rated it it was amazing

wash your bowl

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Jul 16, 2020 Chetan Narang rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, philosophy, spirituality, short-stories

Fascinating!

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Aug 14, 2016 Teo 2050 added it · review of another edition

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2014.07.24–2014.07.31

Contents

Ekai (1228) Gateless Gate, The

01. Joshu's Dog
02. Hyakujo's Fox
03. Gutei's Finger
04. A Beardless Foreigner
05. Kyogen Mounts the Tree
06. Buddha Twirls a Flower
07. Joshu Washes the Bowl
08. Keichu's Wheel
09. A Buddha Before History
10. Seizei Alone and Poor
11. Joshu Examines a Monk in Meditation
12. Zuigan Calls His Own Master
13. Tokusan Holds His Bowl
14. Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two
15. Tozan's Three Bowls
16. Bells and Robes
17. Three Calls of the Emperor's Teacher
18. Tozan's ...more

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Jan 24, 2010 Jake rated it liked it

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The Gateless Gate is a classic book of zen koans. In this version, Yamada adds his own explication of each case, which helps a lot in understanding some of the basic ideas. As a Westerner and someone who is not steeped in Buddhist history, I often felt like I was facing a steep series of translations- from Chinese to Japanese, from Japanese to English, from Eastern ideas and idioms to Western ones. For that reason I read the book slowly- at most one case each night. Some of them, like the classi ...more

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Jul 01, 2010 Johnny rated it really liked it · review of another edition

(Disclaimer: I know little to nothing about Zen Buddhism.)

Though Nietzsche has instilled in me an aversion to the idolization of nothingness or silence (be noisy and passionate while you can) characteristic of some eastern philosophies, I found the koans both profound and wonderfully silly. They question; call on one to justify, our preference for the determinate (e.g the thesis that all propositions are true or false), absolutes, dichotomies (good and evil).

They also provoke reflection on commu ...more

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Mar 10, 2012 Jim Parker rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This certainly isn't a book to read all at once.

The way I am handling the book is to read one koan at a time. I don't even necessarily manage to read one everyday but I'm trying to get in the habit of doing it that way. Sometimes I think about the koan and sometimes the koans are incomprehensible to me and I just sort put that one aside.

I have finally finished going through all the koans for the first time. In no way do I consider this book finished but at least I have begun the study. (3-31-201 ...more

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May 15, 2014 k rated it really liked it

Surprised at how few reads this book has gotten on this site. I guess I figured something like the Tao Te Ching would be more popular, but not 3 orders of magnitude more popular. This book is a great introduction to Zen for the casually curious. The koans are very funny at times, and Yamada's commentary is painstaking and clear, sometimes overly so, but between the koan, Mumon's commentary and Yamada's, you get three different layers and styles of understanding and it all works quite well as a w ...more

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Aug 14, 2014 Jan van Leent rated it it was amazing

Shelves: buddhism

Excellent translation of this classic collection of Zen Koans.

The teishos and commentaries are very helpful.

Recommended for study of Zen koans.

Also recommended as five star rating:

- Zenkei Shibayama, The Gateless Barrier - Zen comments on the Mumonkan, Boston: Shambhala, 1974

- Robert Aitken, The Gateless Barrier - The Wu-men Kuan (Mumonkan), New York: North Point Press, 1991

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Mar 09, 2009 Patrick rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book changed my life. Will it change yours? All I know is that if anyone asks you whether or not the cat is yours, you put your shoes on your head, and the cat down your pants. In this way you will save two lives.

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Jul 23, 2012 Scott rated it really liked it

See combined review attached to Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan. ...more

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Jun 06, 2011 hissi rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: to-be-read-again, asian-wisdom, eastern

exploring the Zen world in 48 -relatively- short commandments.

Mu~

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Dec 14, 2012 Jure Godler rated it it was amazing

Good book. Yea. I love this one. Read it.

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Jun 06, 2013 Rosie Dempsey rated it liked it

Not enough can be said regarding the craziness of zen koans. I don't understand most of them, but then again, I'm not enlightened. ...more

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Apr 09, 2014 Travis Hosgood rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

If you are hungry, eat. If you are thirsty, drink.

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May 05, 2014 Christopher rated it liked it · review of another edition

This book will take some mental chewing.

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Wumen Huikai (simplified Chinese: 无门慧开; traditional Chinese: 無門慧開; pinyin: Wúmén Huìkāi; Wade-Giles: Wu-men Hui-k'ai; Japanese: Mumon Ekai) (1183–1260) is a Song period Chán (Japanese: Zen) master most famous as the compiler of and commentator on the 48-koan collection The Gateless Gate (Japanese: Mumonkan). Wumen was at that time the head monk of Longxiang (Wade-Giles: Lung-hsiang; Japanese: Ryus Wumen Huikai (simplified Chinese: 无门慧开; traditional Chinese: 無門慧開; pinyin: Wúmén Huìkāi; Wade-Giles: Wu-men Hui-k'ai; Japanese: Mumon Ekai) (1183–1260) is a Song period Chán (Japanese: Zen) master most famous as the compiler of and commentator on the 48-koan collection The Gateless Gate (Japanese: Mumonkan). Wumen was at that time the head monk of Longxiang (Wade-Giles: Lung-hsiang; Japanese: Ryusho) monastery.

Wumen was born in Hangzhou and his first master was Gong Heshang. However, it was Zen master Yuelin Shiguan (月林師觀; Japanese: Gatsurin Shikan) (1143–1217) who gave Wumen the koan "Zhaozhou’s dog", with which Wu-men struggled for six years before he finally attained realization. After his understanding had been confirmed by Yuelin, Wumen wrote his enlightenment poem:

A thunderclap under the clear blue sky
All beings on earth open their eyes;
Everything under heaven bows together;
Mount Sumeru leaps up and dances. (Aitken, p4)
He received Dharma transmission in the Linji line (Japanese: Rinzai) of Zen from his master, Yuelin.

In many respects, Wumen was the classical eccentric Chan master. He wandered for many years from temple to temple, wore old and dirty robes, grew his hair and beard long and worked in the temple fields. He was nicknamed "Huikai the Lay Monk". (Aitken, p4) At age 64, he founded Gokoku-ninno temple near West Lake where he hoped to retire quietly, but visitors constantly came looking for instruction.

His teachings, as revealed in his comments in The Gateless Gate, closely followed the teachings of Dahui Zonggao (大慧宗杲; Wade-Giles: Ta-hui Tsung-kao; Japanese: Daei Sōkō) (1089–1163). The importance of "Great Doubt" was one of his central teaching devices. Wumen said, "...[understanding Zen is] just a matter of rousing the mass of doubt throughout your body, day and night, and never letting up." (Yamada p xlii) In his comment on Case 1, Zhaozhou's dog, he called mu (無) "a red-hot iron ball which you have gulped down and which you try to vomit up, but cannot". (Yamada, p 14) Wumen believed in blocking all avenues of escape for the student, hence the "gateless barrier". Whatever activity the student proposed, Wumen rejected: "If you follow regulations, keeping the rules, you tie yourself without rope but if you act any which way without inhibition you're a heretical demon. ... Clear alertness is wearing chains and stocks. Thinking good and bad is hell and heaven. ... Neither progressing nor retreating, you're a dead man with breath. So tell me, ultimately how do you practice?" (Yamada, p xliii) ...more

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“Every day Zuigan used to call out to himself, "Master!" and then he answered himself, "Yes, Sir!" And he added, "Awake, Awake!" and then answered, "Yes, Sir! Yes, Sir!"
"From now onwards, do not be deceived by others!" "No, Sir! I will not, Sir!"

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