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

Man Is Not Good-natured Nor Bad-natured But Buddha-natured
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Everything Is Living According To Zen
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Hinayanism And Its Doctrine
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Zazen And The Forgetting Of Self
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The Absolute And Reality Are But An Abstraction
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Buddha Dwelling In The Individual Mind
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Poetical Intuition And Zen
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The Parable Of A Drunkard
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The Four Alternatives And The Five Categories
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Thing-in-itself Means Thing-knowerless
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The Fifth And The Sixth Patriarchs
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The Third Step In The Mental Training
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Zen Under The Toku-gana Shogunate
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Wang Yang Ming (o-yo-mei) And A Thief
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No Need Of The Scriptural Authority For Zen
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Personalism Of B P Bowne
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How To Worship Buddha
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The Social State Of Japan When Zen Was Established By Ei-sai And Do-gen
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Buddha Is Unnamable
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Our Conception Of Buddha Is Not Final

Has, then, the divine nature of Universal Spirit been completely and
exhaustively revealed in our Enlightened Consciousness? To this
question we should answer negatively, for, so far as our limited
experience is concerned, Universal Spirit reveals itself as a Being
with profound wisdom and boundless mercy; this, nevertheless, does
not imply that the conception is the only possible and complete one.
We should always bear in mind that the world is alive, and changing,
and moving. It goes on to disclose a new phase, or to add a new
truth. The subtlest logic of old is a mere quibble of nowadays. The
miracles of yesterday are the commonplaces of to-day. Now theories
are formed, new discoveries are made, only to give their places to
newer theories are discoveries. New ideals realized or new desires
satisfied are sure to awaken newer and stronger desires. Not an
instant life remains immutable, but it rushes on, amplifying and
enriching itself from the dawn of time to the end of eternity.

Therefore Universal Life may in the future possibly unfold its new
spiritual content, yet unknown to us because it has refined, lifted
up, and developed living beings from the amœba to man, increasing the
intelligence and range of individuals, until highly civilized man
emerge into the plane of consciousness-consciousness of divine light
in him. Thus to believe in Buddha is to be content and thankful for
the grace of His, and to hope for the infinite unfoldment of His
glories in man.

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