Samurai

Learn about the Samurai way of life. Explore Buddha, Zen, Bodhidharma, life, laws and the balance needed to achieve mastery.

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A Sutra Equal In Size To The Whole World
All The Worlds In Ten Directions Are Buddha's Holy Land
An Illusion Concerning Appearance And Reality
Bodhidharma And His Successor The Second Patriarch
Bodhidharma And The Emperor Wu
Bodhidharma's Disciples And The Transmission Of The Law[fn#31]
Buddha Dwelling In The Individual Mind
Buddha Is Unnamable
Buddha The Universal Life
Buddha-nature Is The Common Source Of Morals
Calmness Of Mind
Change As Seen By Zen
Decline Of Zen
Difficulties Are No Match For The Optimist
Do Thy Best And Leave The Rest To Providence
Each Smile A Hymn Each Kindly Word A Prayer
Enlightened Consciousness
Enlightened Consciousness Is Not An Intellectual Insight
Enlightenment Implies An Insight Into The Nature Of Self
Enlightenment Is Beyond Description And Analysis
Epicureanism And Life
Everything Is Living According To Zen
Flight Of The Sixth Patriarch
Great Men And Nature
Hinayanism And Its Doctrine
How To Worship Buddha
Idealism Is A Potent Medicine For Self-created Mental Disease
Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Objective Reality
Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Religion And Morality
Introduction Of Zen Into China By Bodhidharma
Let Go Of Your Idle Thoughts
Life And Change
Life And Change
Life Change And Hope
Life Consists In Conflict
Life In The Concrete
Man Is Bad-natured According To Siun Tsz
Man Is Both Good-natured And Bad-natured According To Yan Hiung
Man Is Good-natured According To Mencius
Man Is Neither Good-natured Nor Bad-natured According To Su Shih
Man Is Not Good-natured Nor Bad-natured But Buddha-natured
Missionary Activity Of The Sixth Patriarch
Nature And Her Lesson
Nature Favours Nothing In Particular
Nature Is The Mother Of All Things
No Need Of The Scriptural Authority For Zen
Origin Of Zen In India
Our Conception Of Buddha Is Not Final
Personalism Of B P Bowne
Pessimistic View Of The Ancient Hindus
Poetical Intuition And Zen
Real Self
Retribution In The Past The Present And The Future Life
Scripture Is No More Than Waste Paper
Shakya Muni And The Prodigal Son
Sutras Used By Zen Masters
The Absolute And Reality Are But An Abstraction
The Ancient Buddhist Pantheon
The Application Of The Law Of Causation To Morals
The Awakening Of The Innermost Wisdom
The Bad Are The Good In The Egg
The Beatitude Of Zen
The Betterment Of Life
The Breathing Exercise Of The Yogi
The Buddha Of Mercy
The Characteristics Of Do-gen The Founder Of The Japanese So To Sect
The Courage And The Composure Of Mind Of The Zen Monk And Of The Samurai
The Creative Force Of Nature And Humanity
The Development Of The Southern And Of The Northern School Of Zen
The Disciples Under The Sixth Patriarch
The Errors Of Philosophical Pessimists And Religious Optimists
The Establishment Of The Rin Zai School Of Zen In Japan
The Eternal Life As Taught By Professor Munsterberg
The Examination Of The Notion Of Self
The Fifth And The Sixth Patriarchs
The First Step In The Mental Training
The Five Ranks Of Merit
The Four Alternatives And The Five Categories
The Fourth Patriarch And The Emperor Tai Tsung (tai-so)
The Great Person And Small Person
The Honest Poverty Of The Zen Monk And The Samurai
The Introduction Of The So-to School Of Zen
The Irrationality Of The Belief Of Immortality
The Law Of Balance
The Law Of Balance In Life
The Manliness Of The Zen Monk And Of The Samurai
The Method Of Instruction Adopted By Zen Masters
The Mystery Of Life
The Next Step In The Mental Training
The Parable Of A Drunkard
The Parable Of The Monk And The Stupid Woman
The Parable Of The Robber Kih
The Progress And Hope Of Life
The Resemblance Of The Zen Monk To The Samurai
The Second And The Third Patriarchs
The Sermon Of The Inanimate
The Social State Of Japan When Zen Was Established By Ei-sai And Do-gen
The Spiritual Attainment Of The Sixth Patriarch
The Ten Pictures Of The Cowherd
The Theory Of Buddha-nature Adequately Explains The Ethical States Of Man
The Third Step In The Mental Training
The Usual Explanation Of The Canon
The World Is In The Making
There Is No Mortal Who Is Non-moral Or Purely Immoral
There Is No Mortal Who Is Purely Moral
Thing-in-itself Means Thing-knowerless
Three Important Elements Of Zen
True Dhyana
Universal Life Is Universal Spirit
Wang Yang Ming (o-yo-mei) And A Thief
Where Does The Root Of The Illusion Lie?
Where Then Does The Error Lie?
Zazen And The Forgetting Of Self
Zazen Or The Sitting In Meditation
Zen After The Downfall Of The Ho-jo Regency
Zen After The Restoration
Zen And Idealism
Zen And Nirvana
Zen And Supernatural Power
Zen And The Regent Generals Of The Ho-jo Period
Zen In The Dark Age
Zen Is Iconoclastic
Zen Is Not Nihilistic
Zen Under The Toku-gana Shogunate