Samurai

The Courage And The Composure Of Mind Of The Zen Monk And Of The Samurai
Fourthly, our Samurai encountered death, as is well known, wi...

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

Introduction Of Zen Into China By Bodhidharma
An epoch-making event took place in the Buddhist history of C...

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

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

There Is No Mortal Who Is Non-moral Or Purely Immoral
The same is the case with the third and the fourth class of p...

The Establishment Of The Rin Zai School Of Zen In Japan
[FN#67] The Lin Tsi school was started by Nan Yoh, a pr...

The Progress And Hope Of Life
How many myriads of years have passed since the germs of life...

Man Is Good-natured According To Mencius
Oriental scholars, especially the Chinese men of letters, se...

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

Zazen And The Forgetting Of Self
Zazen is a most effectual means of destroying selfishness, th...

Nature Is The Mother Of All Things
Furthermore, man has come into existence out of Nature. He i...

The Third Step In The Mental Training
To be the lord of mind is more essential to Enlightenment, wh...

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

Enlightened Consciousness
In addition to these considerations, which mainly depend on i...

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

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...

How To Worship Buddha
The author of Vimalakirtti-nirdeca-sutra well explains our at...

The Theory Of Buddha-nature Adequately Explains The Ethical States Of Man
This theory of Buddha-nature enables us to get an insight int...