Samurai
Zazen And The Forgetting Of Self
Zazen is a most effectual means of destroying selfishness, th...
Epicureanism And Life
There are a good many people always buoyant in spirit and mir...
Calmness Of Mind
The Yogi breathing above mentioned is fit rather for physical...
Zen And Supernatural Power
Yoga[FN#250] claims that various supernatural powers can be a...
Shakya Muni And The Prodigal Son
A great trouble with us is that we do not believe in half the...
Buddha-nature Is The Common Source Of Morals
Furthermore, Buddha-nature or real self, being the seat of lo...
Bodhidharma And His Successor The Second Patriarch
China was not, however, an uncultivated[FN#29] land for the s...
The Fifth And The Sixth Patriarchs
Tao Sin transmitted the Law to Hung Jan (Ko-nin), who being e...
Man Is Neither Good-natured Nor Bad-natured According To Su Shih
The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by Su Shih ...
Poetical Intuition And Zen
Since Universal Life or Spirit permeates the universe, the po...
The Beatitude Of Zen
We are far from denying, as already shown in the foregoing ch...
Zen And The Regent Generals Of The Ho-jo Period
No wonder, then, that the representatives of the Samurai clas...
True Dhyana
To sit in Meditation is not the only method of practising Zaz...
The Spiritual Attainment Of The Sixth Patriarch
Some time before his death (in 675 A.D.) the Fifth Patriarch
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The Usual Explanation Of The Canon
An eminent Chinese Buddhist scholar, well known as Ten Dai Da...
The Ten Pictures Of The Cowherd
[FN#275] The pictures were drawn by Kwoh Ngan (Kaku-an), a...
An Illusion Concerning Appearance And Reality
To get Enlightened we must next dispel an illusion respecting...
Zen After The Restoration
After the Restoration of the Mei-ji (1867) the popularity of ...
All The Worlds In Ten Directions Are Buddha's Holy Land
We are to resume this problem in the following chapter. Suff...
The Great Person And Small Person
For these reasons Zen proposes to call man Buddha-natured or
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