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

Buddha Is Unnamable
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Hinayanism And Its Doctrine
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Man Is Neither Good-natured Nor Bad-natured According To Su Shih
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The Betterment Of Life
Again, people nowadays seem to feel keenly the wound of the ...

The Resemblance Of The Zen Monk To The Samurai
Let us point out in brief the similarities between Zen and Ja...

The World Is In The Making
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There Is No Mortal Who Is Purely Moral
By nature man should be either good or bad; or he should be g...

Where Then Does The Error Lie?
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The Development Of The Southern And Of The Northern School Of Zen
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The Third Step In The Mental Training
To be the lord of mind is more essential to Enlightenment, wh...

The Awakening Of The Innermost Wisdom
Having set ourselves free from the misconception of Self, nex...

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

Epicureanism And Life
There are a good many people always buoyant in spirit and mir...

Zen And Supernatural Power
Yoga[FN#250] claims that various supernatural powers can be a...

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

The Application Of The Law Of Causation To Morals
Although it may be needless to state here the law of causatio...

Calmness Of Mind
The Yogi breathing above mentioned is fit rather for physical...

The Method Of Instruction Adopted By Zen Masters
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The Four Alternatives And The Five Categories
There are, according to Zen, the four classes of religious an...

The Law Of Balance

Nature governs the world with her law of balance. She puts things
ever in pairs,[FN#216] and leaves nothing in isolation. Positives
stand in opposition to negatives, actives to passives, males to
females, and so on. Thus we get the ebb in opposition to the flood
tide; the centrifugal force to the centripetal; attraction to
repulsion; growth to decay; toxin to antitoxin; light to shade;
action to reaction; unity to variety; day to night; the animate to
the inanimate. Look at our own bodies: the right eye is placed side
by side with the left; the left shoulder with the right; the right
lung with the left; the left hemisphere of the brain with that of the
right; and so forth.

[FN#216] Zenists call them 'pairs of opposites.'

It holds good also in human affairs: advantage is always accompanied
by disadvantage; loss by gain; convenience by inconvenience; good by
evil; rise by fall; prosperity by adversity; virtue by vice; beauty
by deformity; pain by pleasure; youth by old age; life by death. 'A
handsome young lady of quality,' a parable in Mahaparinirvana-sutra
tells us, 'who carries with her an immense treasure is ever
accompanied by her sister, an ugly woman in rags, who destroys
everything within her reach. If we win the former, we must also get
the latter.' As pessimists show intense dislike towards the latter
and forget the former, so optimists admire the former so much that
they are indifferent to the latter.

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