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Bodhidharma And The Emperor Wu
No sooner had Bodhidharma landed at Kwang Cheu in Southern Ch...

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

Each Smile A Hymn Each Kindly Word A Prayer
The glorious sun of Buddha-nature shines in the zenith of Enl...

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

Idealism Is A Potent Medicine For Self-created Mental Disease
In so far as Buddhist idealism refers to the world of sense, ...

Zen And Nirvana
The beatitude of Zen is Nirvana, not in the Hinayanistic sens...

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

The Absolute And Reality Are But An Abstraction
A grain of sand you, trample upon has a deeper significance t...

Pessimistic View Of The Ancient Hindus
In addition to this, the new theory of matter has entirely ov...

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

The Parable Of A Drunkard
Now the question arises, If all human beings are endowed with...

Nature And Her Lesson
Nature offers us nectar and ambrosia every day, and everywher...

The World Is In The Making
Our assertion is far from assuming that life is now complete,...

Calmness Of Mind
The Yogi breathing above mentioned is fit rather for physical...

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

Life Change And Hope
The doctrine of Transcience never drives us to the pessimisti...

Hinayanism And Its Doctrine
The doctrine of Transience was the first entrance gate of Hin...

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

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

Sutras Used By Zen Masters
Ten Dai failed to explain away the discrepancies and contradi...