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Enlightenment Implies An Insight Into The Nature Of Self
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Missionary Activity Of The Sixth Patriarch
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The Parable Of The Robber Kih
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The Application Of The Law Of Causation To Morals
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The Sermon Of The Inanimate
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Bodhidharma's Disciples And The Transmission Of The Law[fn#31]
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The Disciples Under The Sixth Patriarch
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The Parable Of The Monk And The Stupid Woman
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Scripture Is No More Than Waste Paper
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The Irrationality Of The Belief Of Immortality
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Man Is Neither Good-natured Nor Bad-natured According To Su Shih
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The Social State Of Japan When Zen Was Established By Ei-sai And Do-gen
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Nature Is The Mother Of All Things
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Epicureanism And Life
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Zen Is Not Nihilistic
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Man Is Both Good-natured And Bad-natured According To Yan Hiung

According to Yang Hiung and his followers, good is no less real than
evil, and evil is no more unreal than good. Therefore man must be
double-natured-that is, partly good and partly bad. This is the
reason why the history of man is full of fiendish crimes, and, at the
same time, it abounds with godly deeds. This is the reason why
mankind comprises, on the one hand, a Socrates, a Confucius, a Jesus,
and, on the other, a Nero and a Kieh. This is the reason why we find
to-day a honest fellow in him whom we find a betrayer to-morrow.

[FN#163] Yan Hiung (died A.D. 18) is the reputed author of Tai Huen
(Tai-gen) and Fah Yen (Ho-gen). His opinion in reference to human
nature is found in Fah Yen.

This view of man's nature might explain our present moral state, yet
it calls forth many questions bard to answer. If this assertion be
true, is it not a useless task to educate man with the purpose of
making him better and nobler? How could one extirpate man's bad
nature implanted within him at his origin? If man be double-natured,
how did he come to set good over evil? How did he come to consider
that he ought to be good and ought not to be bad? How could you
establish the authority of morality?

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