Samurai

Where Then Does The Error Lie?
Where, then, does the error lie in the four possible proposit...

The Introduction Of The So-to School Of Zen
[FN#75] This school was started by Tsing-Yuen (Sei-gen)...

Man Is Both Good-natured And Bad-natured According To Yan Hiung
According to Yang Hiung and his followers, good is no less re...

Life In The Concrete
Life in the concrete, which we are living, greatly differs fr...

Difficulties Are No Match For The Optimist
How can we suppose that we, the children of Buddha, are put a...

Change As Seen By Zen
Zen, like Hinayanism, does not deny the doctrine of Transienc...

The Manliness Of The Zen Monk And Of The Samurai
Thirdly, both the Zen monk and the Samurai were distinguished...

Epicureanism And Life
There are a good many people always buoyant in spirit and mir...

Buddha Is Unnamable
Give a definite name to Deity, He would be no more than what ...

Do Thy Best And Leave The Rest To Providence
There is another point of view which enables us to enjoy life...

Buddha The Universal Life
Zen conceives Buddha as a Being, who moves, stirs, inspires, ...

Zen Is Iconoclastic
For the followers of Bodhidharma, however, this conception of...

Let Go Of Your Idle Thoughts
[FN#263] A famous Zenist, Mu-go-koku-shi, is said to ha...

Real Self
If there be no individual soul either in mind or body, where ...

Enlightenment Is Beyond Description And Analysis
In the foregoing chapters we have had several occasions to re...

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

The Application Of The Law Of Causation To Morals
Although it may be needless to state here the law of causatio...

Nature Favours Nothing In Particular
There is another point of view of life, which gave the presen...

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

The Spiritual Attainment Of The Sixth Patriarch
Some time before his death (in 675 A.D.) the Fifth Patriarch ...