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

The Disciples Under The Sixth Patriarch
Some time after this the Sixth Patriarch settled himself down...

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

Each Smile A Hymn Each Kindly Word A Prayer
The glorious sun of Buddha-nature shines in the zenith of Enl...

Zen After The Downfall Of The Ho-jo Regency
Towards the end of the Ho-Jo period,[FN#90] and after the dow...

Introduction Of Zen Into China By Bodhidharma
An epoch-making event took place in the Buddhist history of C...

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

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

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

The First Step In The Mental Training
Some of the old Zen masters are said to have attained to supr...

The Introduction Of The So-to School Of Zen
[FN#75] This school was started by Tsing-Yuen (Sei-gen)...

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

Zen And The Regent Generals Of The Ho-jo Period
No wonder, then, that the representatives of the Samurai clas...

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

Great Men And Nature
All great men, whether they be poets or scientists or religio...

The Social State Of Japan When Zen Was Established By Ei-sai And Do-gen
Now we have to observe the condition of the country when Zen ...

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

An Illusion Concerning Appearance And Reality
To get Enlightened we must next dispel an illusion respecting...

Life And Change
A peculiar phase of life is change which appears in the form ...

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

There Is No Mortal Who Is Non-moral Or Purely Immoral

The same is the case with the third and the fourth class of people
who are assumed as non-moral or purely immoral. There is no person,
however morally degraded he may be, but reveals some good nature in
his whole course of life. It is our daily experience that we find a
faithful friend in the person even of a pickpocket, a loving father
even in a burglar, and a kind neighbour even in a murderer. Faith,
sympathy, friendship, love, loyalty, and generosity dwell not merely
in palaces and churches, but also in brothels and gaols. On the
other hand, abhorrent vices and bloody crimes often find shelter
under the silk hat, or the robe, or the coronet, or the crown. Life
may fitly be compared with a rope made of white and black straw, and
to separate one from the other is to destroy the rope itself; so also
life entirely independent of the duality of good and bad is no actual
life. We must acknowledge, therefore, that the third and the fourth
propositions are inconsistent with our daily experience of life, and
that only the second proposition remains, which, as seen above,
breaks down at the origin of morality.

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