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Our Conception Of Buddha Is Not Final
Has, then, the divine nature of Universal Spirit been complet...

Everything Is Living According To Zen
Everything alive has a strong innate tendency to preserve its...

Life And Change
Transformation and change are the essential features of life;...

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

The Fifth And The Sixth Patriarchs
Tao Sin transmitted the Law to Hung Jan (Ko-nin), who being e...

The Parable Of A Drunkard
Now the question arises, If all human beings are endowed with...

Nature And Her Lesson
Nature offers us nectar and ambrosia every day, and everywher...

Man Is Neither Good-natured Nor Bad-natured According To Su Shih
The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by Su Shih ...

Enlightened Consciousness Is Not An Intellectual Insight
Enlightened Consciousness is not a bare intellectual insight,...

The Betterment Of Life
Again, people nowadays seem to feel keenly the wound of the ...

The Buddha Of Mercy
Milton says: Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt; Surp...

The Ancient Buddhist Pantheon
The ancient Buddhist pantheon was full of deities or Buddhas,...

Change As Seen By Zen
Zen, like Hinayanism, does not deny the doctrine of Transienc...

Zen Under The Toku-gana Shogunate
Peace was at last restored by Iye-yasu, the founder of the To...

Zen Is Not Nihilistic
Zen judged from ancient Zen masters' aphorisms may seem, at t...

Life In The Concrete
Life in the concrete, which we are living, greatly differs fr...

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

Buddha The Universal Life
Zen conceives Buddha as a Being, who moves, stirs, inspires, ...

The Beatitude Of Zen
We are far from denying, as already shown in the foregoing ch...

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