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The Establishment Of The Rin Zai School Of Zen In Japan
[FN#67] The Lin Tsi school was started by Nan Yoh, a pr...

Zen After The Downfall Of The Ho-jo Regency
Towards the end of the Ho-Jo period,[FN#90] and after the dow...

The Breathing Exercise Of The Yogi
Breathing exercise is one of the practices of Yoga, and somew...

Thing-in-itself Means Thing-knowerless
How, then, did philosophers come to consider reality to be un...

Zen In The Dark Age
The latter half of the Ashikaga period was the age of arms an...

There Is No Mortal Who Is Purely Moral
By nature man should be either good or bad; or he should be g...

Wang Yang Ming (o-yo-mei) And A Thief
One evening when Wang was giving a lecture to a number of stu...

There Is No Mortal Who Is Non-moral Or Purely Immoral
The same is the case with the third and the fourth class of p...

Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Objective Reality
But extreme Idealism identifies 'to be' with 'to be known,' a...

Retribution In The Past The Present And The Future Life
Then a question suggests itself: If there be no soul that su...

Zen After The Restoration
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Our Conception Of Buddha Is Not Final
Has, then, the divine nature of Universal Spirit been complet...

No Need Of The Scriptural Authority For Zen
Some Occidental scholars erroneously identify Buddhism with t...

Man Is Good-natured According To Mencius
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Everything Is Living According To Zen
Everything alive has a strong innate tendency to preserve its...

The Next Step In The Mental Training
In the next place we have to strive to be the master of our b...

The Third Step In The Mental Training
To be the lord of mind is more essential to Enlightenment, wh...

Change As Seen By Zen
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Life And Change
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The Parable Of The Monk And The Stupid Woman
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Great Men And Nature

All great men, whether they be poets or scientists or religious men
or philosophers, are not mere readers of books, but the perusers of
Nature. Men of erudition are often lexicons in flesh and blood, but
men of genius read between the lines in the pages of life. Kant, a
man of no great erudition, could accomplish in the theory of
knowledge what Copernicus did in astronomy. Newton found the law of
gravitation not in a written page, but in a falling apple.
Unlettered Jesus realized truth beyond the comprehension of many
learned doctors. Charles Darwin, whose theory changed the whole
current of the world's thought, was not a great reader of books, but
a careful observer of facts. Shakespeare, the greatest of poets, was
the greatest reader of Nature and life. He could hear the music even
of heavenly bodies, and said:

There's not the smallest orb which thou beholdest,
But in his motion like an angel sings.

Chwang Tsz (So-shi), the greatest of Chinese philosophers, says:
Thou knowest the music of men, but not the music of the earth. Thou
knowest the music of the earth, but not the music of the
heaven.[FN#132] Goethe, perceiving a profound meaning in Nature,
says: Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of Nature with which
she indicates how much she loves us.

[FN#132] Chwang Tsz, vol. i., p. 10.

Son-toku[FN#133] (Ninomiya), a great economist, who, overcoming all
difficulties and hardships by which he was beset from his childhood,
educated himself, says: The earth and the heaven utter no word, but
they ceaselessly repeat the holy book unwritten.

[FN#133] One of the greatest self-made men in Japan, who lived
1787-1856.

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