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The Breathing Exercise Of The Yogi
Breathing exercise is one of the practices of Yoga, and somew...
The World Is In The Making
Our assertion is far from assuming that life is now complete,...
Nature Is The Mother Of All Things
Furthermore, man has come into existence out of Nature. He i...
Retribution In The Past The Present And The Future Life
Then a question suggests itself: If there be no soul that su...
The Irrationality Of The Belief Of Immortality
Occidental minds believe in a mysterious entity under the nam...
Wang Yang Ming (o-yo-mei) And A Thief
One evening when Wang was giving a lecture to a number of stu...
The Establishment Of The Rin Zai School Of Zen In Japan
[FN#67] The Lin Tsi school was started by Nan Yoh, a pr...
Introduction Of Zen Into China By Bodhidharma
An epoch-making event took place in the Buddhist history of C...
Everything Is Living According To Zen
Everything alive has a strong innate tendency to preserve its...
The Five Ranks Of Merit
Thus far we have stated how to train our body and mind accord...
The Usual Explanation Of The Canon
An eminent Chinese Buddhist scholar, well known as Ten Dai Da...
Sutras Used By Zen Masters
Ten Dai failed to explain away the discrepancies and contradi...
Difficulties Are No Match For The Optimist
How can we suppose that we, the children of Buddha, are put a...
Zen After The Downfall Of The Ho-jo Regency
Towards the end of the Ho-Jo period,[FN#90] and after the dow...
The Errors Of Philosophical Pessimists And Religious Optimists
Philosophical pessimists[FN#214] maintain that there are on e...
Zen And Idealism
Next Zen makes use of Idealism as explained by the Dharmalaks...
There Is No Mortal Who Is Non-moral Or Purely Immoral
The same is the case with the third and the fourth class of p...
The Parable Of A Drunkard
Now the question arises, If all human beings are endowed with...
The Fourth Patriarch And The Emperor Tai Tsung (tai-so)
The Third[FN#40] Patriarch was succeeded by Tao Sin (Do-shin)...
The Fifth And The Sixth Patriarchs
Tao Sin transmitted the Law to Hung Jan (Ko-nin), who being e...