Case 31: Magu Shakes his Staff
- Title in Sullivan (2021): Magu Shakes his Staff
- Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Ma Ku Carrying his Ring-Staff
- Title in Sekida (2005): Mayoku Comes to Shōkei
- Named characters (in Pinyin):
- Magu
- Zhangjing
- Nanquan
- Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
- Ma Ku
- Chang Ching
- Nan Ch’uan
- Named characters (in Japanese):
- Mayoku
- Shōkei
- Nansen
- Other koan collections:
- The Book of Equanimity, Case #16.
- Historical commentaries:
- Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
- Modern commentaries:
- Matthew Juksan Sullivan (contained in The Garden of Flowers and Weeds, 2021)
- Richard Shrobe (contained in Elegant Failure, Ch. 2, 2010)
- Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koans, page 245, 1973)
- Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
- Kurt Spellmeyer (dharma talk and audio dharma talk)
- Peggy Sheehan (audio dharma talk and pdf)
- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold (audio dharma talk)
- Kokyo Henkel (audio dharma talk)
- Enkyo O’Hara (audio dharma talk)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
- Scholarly commentaries:
- Steven Heine (contained in Opening a Mountains, page 152, 2002)
- Kusumoto Bunyū (contained in Zengo Nyūmon, Zengo 47, 1982)