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Samurai

A Sutra Equal In Size To The Whole World
The holy writ that Zen masters admire is not one of parchment...

Origin Of Zen In India
To-day Zen as a living faith can be found in its pure form on...

Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Objective Reality
But extreme Idealism identifies 'to be' with 'to be known,' a...

Zazen And The Forgetting Of Self
Zazen is a most effectual means of destroying selfishness, th...

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

Epicureanism And Life
There are a good many people always buoyant in spirit and mir...

Bodhidharma's Disciples And The Transmission Of The Law[fn#31]
[FN#31] For details, see Chwen Tang Luh and Den Ka Roku, b...

Enlightenment Is Beyond Description And Analysis
In the foregoing chapters we have had several occasions to re...

Man Is Bad-natured According To Siun Tsz
The weaknesses of Mencius's theory are fully exposed by anot...

There Is No Mortal Who Is Purely Moral
By nature man should be either good or bad; or he should be g...

The Theory Of Buddha-nature Adequately Explains The Ethical States Of Man
This theory of Buddha-nature enables us to get an insight int...

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

Man Is Good-natured According To Mencius
Oriental scholars, especially the Chinese men of letters, se...

The Law Of Balance
Nature governs the world with her law of balance. She puts t...

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...

Pessimistic View Of The Ancient Hindus
In addition to this, the new theory of matter has entirely ov...

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

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

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

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

Zen After The Restoration

After the Restoration of the Mei-ji (1867) the popularity of Zen
began to wane, and for some thirty years remained in inactivity; but
since the Russo-Japanese War its revival has taken place. And now it
is looked upon as an ideal faith, both for a nation full of hope and
energy, and for a person who has to fight his own way in the strife
of life. Bushido, or the code of chivalry, should be observed not
only by the soldier in the battle-field, but by every citizen in the
struggle for existence. If a person be a person and not a beast,
then he must be a Samurai-brave, generous, upright, faithful, and
manly, full of self-respect and self-confidence, at the same time
full of the spirit of self-sacrifice. We can find an incarnation of
Bushido in the late General Nogi, the hero of Port Arthur, who, after
the sacrifice of his two sons for the country in the Russo-Japanese
War, gave up his own and his wife's life for the sake of the deceased
Emperor. He died not in vain, as some might think, because his
simplicity, uprightness, loyalty, bravery, self-control, and
self-sacrifice, all combined in his last act, surely inspire the
rising generation with the spirit of the Samurai to give birth to
hundreds of Nogis. Now let us see in the following chapters what Zen
so closely connected with Bushido teaches us.

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