Samurai
The Four Alternatives And The Five Categories
There are, according to Zen, the four classes of religious an...
Difficulties Are No Match For The Optimist
How can we suppose that we, the children of Buddha, are put a...
The Law Of Balance In Life
It is also the case with human affairs. Social positions hig...
Each Smile A Hymn Each Kindly Word A Prayer
The glorious sun of Buddha-nature shines in the zenith of Enl...
The Next Step In The Mental Training
In the next place we have to strive to be the master of our b...
The Resemblance Of The Zen Monk To The Samurai
Let us point out in brief the similarities between Zen and Ja...
Sutras Used By Zen Masters
Ten Dai failed to explain away the discrepancies and contradi...
Our Conception Of Buddha Is Not Final
Has, then, the divine nature of Universal Spirit been complet...
The Establishment Of The Rin Zai School Of Zen In Japan
[FN#67] The Lin Tsi school was started by Nan Yoh, a pr...
Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Objective Reality
But extreme Idealism identifies 'to be' with 'to be known,' a...
The Betterment Of Life
Again, people nowadays seem to feel keenly the wound of the
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The Fourth Patriarch And The Emperor Tai Tsung (tai-so)
The Third[FN#40] Patriarch was succeeded by Tao Sin (Do-shin)...
Personalism Of B P Bowne
B. P. Bowne[FN#204] says: They (phenomena) are not phantoms o...
The Development Of The Southern And Of The Northern School Of Zen
After the death of the Fifth Patriarch the venerable Shang Si...
The Second And The Third Patriarchs
After the death of the First Patriarch, in A.D. 528, Hwui Ko ...
Three Important Elements Of Zen
To understand how Zen developed during some four hundred year...
Change As Seen By Zen
Zen, like Hinayanism, does not deny the doctrine of Transienc...
The Social State Of Japan When Zen Was Established By Ei-sai And Do-gen
Now we have to observe the condition of the country when Zen ...
The Fifth And The Sixth Patriarchs
Tao Sin transmitted the Law to Hung Jan (Ko-nin), who being e...
Where Does The Root Of The Illusion Lie?
Now let us examine where illusion lies hidden from the view o...