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Zen And Supernatural Power
Yoga[FN#250] claims that various supernatural powers can be a...

Enlightened Consciousness Is Not An Intellectual Insight
Enlightened Consciousness is not a bare intellectual insight,...

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

Man Is Bad-natured According To Siun Tsz
The weaknesses of Mencius's theory are fully exposed by anot...

The Fourth Patriarch And The Emperor Tai Tsung (tai-so)
The Third[FN#40] Patriarch was succeeded by Tao Sin (Do-shin)...

The Parable Of The Monk And The Stupid Woman
The confused or unenlightened may be compared with a monk and...

All The Worlds In Ten Directions Are Buddha's Holy Land
We are to resume this problem in the following chapter. Suff...

Everything Is Living According To Zen
Everything alive has a strong innate tendency to preserve its...

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

An Illusion Concerning Appearance And Reality
To get Enlightened we must next dispel an illusion respecting...

Poetical Intuition And Zen
Since Universal Life or Spirit permeates the universe, the po...

Buddha Dwelling In The Individual Mind
Enlightened Consciousness in the individual mind acquires for...

The Creative Force Of Nature And Humanity
The innate tendency of self-preservation, which manifests its...

The Mystery Of Life
Thus far we have pointed out the inevitable conflictions in l...

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

Origin Of Zen In India
To-day Zen as a living faith can be found in its pure form on...

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

Zen And The Regent Generals Of The Ho-jo Period
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Missionary Activity Of The Sixth Patriarch
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Zen After The Downfall Of The Ho-jo Regency
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Introduction Of Zen Into China By Bodhidharma

An epoch-making event took place in the Buddhist history of China by
Bodhidharma's coming over from Southern India to that country in
about A.D. 520.[FN#23] It was the introduction, not of the dead
scriptures, as was repeatedly done before him, but of a living faith,
not of any theoretical doctrine, but of practical Enlightenment, not
of the relies of Buddha, but of the Spirit of Shakya Muni; so that
Bodhidharma's position as a representative of Zen was unique. He
was, however, not a missionary to be favourably received by the
public. He seems to have behaved in a way quite opposite to that in
which a modern pastor treats his flock. We imagine him to have been
a religious teacher entirely different in every point from a popular
Christian missionary of our age. The latter would smile or try to
smile at every face he happens to see and would talk sociably; while
the former would not smile at any face, but would stare at it with
the large glaring eyes that penetrated to the innermost soul. The
latter would keep himself scrupulously clean, shaving, combing,
brushing, polishing, oiling, perfuming, while the former would be
entirely indifferent to his apparel, being always clad in a faded
yellow robe. The latter would compose his sermon with a great care,
making use of rhetorical art, and speak with force and elegance;
while the former would sit as absolutely silent as the bear, and kick
one off, if one should approach him with idle questions.

[FN#23] Buddhist historians differ in opinion respecting the date of
Bodhidharma's appearance in China. Compare Chwen Fah Chan Tsung Lun
(Den bo sho ju ron) and Hwui Yuen (E-gen).

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