Topic: Discuss the following themes in the Record of Linji

Order Description Themes: 1. the true person (use index on p. 313) 2. Linji's exhortations not to be spun around/rotated/turned by vihayas, i.e., sense objects (use index on p. 314) 3. the role of the whack with the rattan stick (use index on p. 314) and shout (use index on p. 310) 4. nothing-to-do (use index on p. 306) 5. dithering and doubt (use index on p .299) Book: Broughton, Jeffrey and Elise Yoko Watanabe. The Record of Linji: A New Translation of the Linjilu in the Light of Ten Japanese Zen Commentaries. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 0199936439