Samurai
How To Worship Buddha
The author of Vimalakirtti-nirdeca-sutra well explains our at...
Zen And The Regent Generals Of The Ho-jo Period
No wonder, then, that the representatives of the Samurai clas...
Hinayanism And Its Doctrine
The doctrine of Transience was the first entrance gate of Hin...
Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Objective Reality
But extreme Idealism identifies 'to be' with 'to be known,' a...
Real Self
If there be no individual soul either in mind or body, where ...
The Second And The Third Patriarchs
After the death of the First Patriarch, in A.D. 528, Hwui Ko ...
Nature Favours Nothing In Particular
There is another point of view of life, which gave the presen...
Man Is Neither Good-natured Nor Bad-natured According To Su Shih
The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by Su Shih ...
Zen In The Dark Age
The latter half of the Ashikaga period was the age of arms an...
The Four Alternatives And The Five Categories
There are, according to Zen, the four classes of religious an...
Scripture Is No More Than Waste Paper
[FN#107] Zen is not based on any particular sutra, either of...
Origin Of Zen In India
To-day Zen as a living faith can be found in its pure form on...
Our Conception Of Buddha Is Not Final
Has, then, the divine nature of Universal Spirit been complet...
Buddha Dwelling In The Individual Mind
Enlightened Consciousness in the individual mind acquires for...
Zen After The Restoration
After the Restoration of the Mei-ji (1867) the popularity of ...
No Need Of The Scriptural Authority For Zen
Some Occidental scholars erroneously identify Buddhism with t...
Nature And Her Lesson
Nature offers us nectar and ambrosia every day, and everywher...
Man Is Not Good-natured Nor Bad-natured But Buddha-natured
We have had already occasion to observe that Zen teaches
Bud...
Where Then Does The Error Lie?
Where, then, does the error lie in the four possible proposit...
Bodhidharma And The Emperor Wu
No sooner had Bodhidharma landed at Kwang Cheu in Southern Ch...