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Enlightenment Implies An Insight Into The Nature Of Self
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Thing-in-itself Means Thing-knowerless
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The Resemblance Of The Zen Monk To The Samurai
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The Development Of The Southern And Of The Northern School Of Zen
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Nature And Her Lesson
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Retribution In The Past The Present And The Future Life
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The Parable Of The Robber Kih
Chwang Tsz (So-shi) remarks in a humorous way to the followi...

The Bad Are The Good In The Egg
This is not only the case with a robber or a murderer, but al...

Buddha Is Unnamable
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Pessimistic View Of The Ancient Hindus
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Zen After The Restoration
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Man Is Good-natured According To Mencius
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Buddha The Universal Life
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Bodhidharma's Disciples And The Transmission Of The Law[fn#31]
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Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Religion And Morality
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The Spiritual Attainment Of The Sixth Patriarch
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The Irrationality Of The Belief Of Immortality
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Buddha-nature Is The Common Source Of Morals
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Missionary Activity Of The Sixth Patriarch
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The Bad Are The Good In The Egg

This is not only the case with a robber or a murderer, but also with
ordinary people. There are many who are honest and good in their
homesteads, but turn out to be base and dishonest folk outside them.
Similarly, there are those who, having an enthusiastic love of their
local district, act unlawfully against the interests of other
districts. They are upright and honourable gentlemen within the
boundary of their own district, but a gang of rascals without it. So
also there are many who are Washingtons and William Tells in their
own, but at the same time pirates and cannibals in the other
countries. Again, there are not a few persons who, having racial
prejudices, would not allow the rays of their Buddha-nature to pass
through a coloured skin. There are civilized persons who are humane
enough to love and esteem any human being as their brother, but so
unfeeling that they think lower creatures as their proper food. The
highly enlightened person, however, cannot but sympathize with human
beings and lower creatures as well, as Shakya Muni felt all sentient
beings to be his children.

These people are exactly the same in their Buddha-nature, but a wide
difference obtains among them in the extent of their expressing that
nature in deeds. If thieves and murderers be called bad-natured,
reformers and revolutionists should be called so. If, on the other
hand, patriotism and loyalty be said to be good, treason and
insurrection should likewise be so. Therefore it is evident that a
so-called good person is none but one who acts to promote wider
interests of life, and a so-called bad person is none but one who
acts to advance narrower ones. In other words, the bad are the good
in the egg, so to speak, and the good are the bad on the wing. As
the bird in the egg is one and the same as the bird on the wing, so
the good in the egg is entirely of the same nature as the bad on the
wing. To show that human nature transcends the duality of good and
evil, the author of Avatamsaka-sutra declares that 'all beings are
endowed with the wisdom and virtue of Tathagata.' Kwei Fung (Kei-ho)
also says: All sentient beings have the Real Spirit of Original
Enlightenment (within themselves). It is unchanging and pure. It is
eternally bright and clear, and conscious. It is also named
Buddha-nature, or Tathagata-garbha.

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