Samurai

The Honest Poverty Of The Zen Monk And The Samurai
Secondly, the so-called honest poverty is a characteristic of...

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

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

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

Scripture Is No More Than Waste Paper
[FN#107] Zen is not based on any particular sutra, either of...

The Law Of Balance In Life
It is also the case with human affairs. Social positions hig...

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

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

The Law Of Balance
Nature governs the world with her law of balance. She puts t...

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

Where Does The Root Of The Illusion Lie?
Now let us examine where illusion lies hidden from the view o...

Great Men And Nature
All great men, whether they be poets or scientists or religio...

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

Personalism Of B P Bowne
B. P. Bowne[FN#204] says: They (phenomena) are not phantoms o...

Flight Of The Sixth Patriarch
On the following morning the news of what had happened during...

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

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

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

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

Bodhidharma's Disciples And The Transmission Of The Law[fn#31]
[FN#31] For details, see Chwen Tang Luh and Den Ka Roku, b...