101 opowieści zen Shasekishū

101 opowieści zen, znane również jako "Zbiór Piasku i Kamieni" (Shaseki-shū 沙石集) to zbiór opowieści zen zebranych i spisanych przez japońskiego mnicha imieniem Mujū Dōkyō w 1283 roku oraz innych anegdot (pochodzących z XIX i XX wieku) zebranych przez Nyogena Senzaki (łącznie jest ich 101). Opowieści weszły również w skład książki "Zen z krwi i kości" (1957), przygotowanej przez Paula Repsa. Książka ta została wydana w Polsce w 1998 roku przez wydawnictwo Zysk i S-ka i w chwili obecnej nie jest już niestety dostępna na rynku.

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Mujū Dōkyō (Japanese: 無住道曉; 1 January 1227 - 9 November 1312), birth name Ichien Dōkyō, was a Buddhist monk of the Japanese Kamakura period. He is superficially considered a Rinzai monk by some due to his compilation of the Shasekishū and similar books of koans, but there is good evidence that he was also an eager student of the Tendai, Pure Land, and Hosso sects, and he is occasionally placed in the Shingon and Ritsu sects as well. Born into the privileged Kajiwara family, he began his service by becoming a page at Jufuku-ji at the age of 13. He became a priest at the age of 18, in Hitachi Province, moving to Kanto for his studies. He founded Choraku-ji temple in Ueno as well as various other temples, and retired at the age of 80. His most important teacher was Enni, who practiced zazen as well as the engaged study of various traditions. The only ideology Mujū disapproved of was intolerance, and he "was himself aware of, and intrigued by, the paradox of the position". (Morrell 1985:19) He was disdainful of contemporaries such as Nichiren Shonin who denounced all practices but their own, and he accepted all schools of Buddhism as having a useful teaching, writing in the preface to Shasekishū that "when a man who practices one version of the Way of Buddha vilifies another because it differs from his own sect, he cannot avoid the sin of slandering the Law."