Samurai

The Errors Of Philosophical Pessimists And Religious Optimists
Philosophical pessimists[FN#214] maintain that there are on e...

Where Then Does The Error Lie?
Where, then, does the error lie in the four possible proposit...

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

The Courage And The Composure Of Mind Of The Zen Monk And Of The Samurai
Fourthly, our Samurai encountered death, as is well known, wi...

The Ten Pictures Of The Cowherd
[FN#275] The pictures were drawn by Kwoh Ngan (Kaku-an), a...

Universal Life Is Universal Spirit
These considerations naturally lead us to see that Universal ...

Three Important Elements Of Zen
To understand how Zen developed during some four hundred year...

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

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

Let Go Of Your Idle Thoughts
[FN#263] A famous Zenist, Mu-go-koku-shi, is said to ha...

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

Decline Of Zen
The blooming prosperity of Zen was over towards the end of th...

All The Worlds In Ten Directions Are Buddha's Holy Land
We are to resume this problem in the following chapter. Suff...

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

The Usual Explanation Of The Canon
An eminent Chinese Buddhist scholar, well known as Ten Dai Da...

Bodhidharma And His Successor The Second Patriarch
China was not, however, an uncultivated[FN#29] land for the s...

The Great Person And Small Person
For these reasons Zen proposes to call man Buddha-natured or ...

The Second And The Third Patriarchs
After the death of the First Patriarch, in A.D. 528, Hwui Ko ...

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

The Mystery Of Life
Thus far we have pointed out the inevitable conflictions in l...