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The Absolute And Reality Are But An Abstraction
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Change As Seen By Zen
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A Sutra Equal In Size To The Whole World
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Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Objective Reality
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The World Is In The Making
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The Parable Of The Robber Kih
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Hinayanism And Its Doctrine
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Nature Favours Nothing In Particular
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Introduction Of Zen Into China By Bodhidharma
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Zen After The Restoration
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Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Religion And Morality
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Zazen Or The Sitting In Meditation
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Buddha Dwelling In The Individual Mind
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The Sermon Of The Inanimate
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Enlightened Consciousness
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Real Self
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Change As Seen By Zen

Zen, like Hinayanism, does not deny the doctrine of Transience, but
it has come to a view diametrically opposite to that of the Hindus.
Transience for Zen simply means change. It is a form in which life
manifests itself. Where there is life there is change or Transience.
Where there is more change there is more vital activity. Suppose an
absolutely changeless body: it must be absolutely lifeless. An
eternally changeless life is equivalent to an eternally changeless
death. Why do we value the morning glory, which fades in a few
hours, more than an artificial glass flower, which endures hundreds
of years? Why do we prefer an animal life, which passes away in a
few scores of years, to a vegetable life, which can exist thousands
of years? Why do we prize changing organism more than inorganic
matter, unchanging and constant? If there be no change in the bright
hues of a flower, it is as worthless as a stone. If there be no
change in the song of a bird, it is as valueless as a whistling wind.
If there be no change in trees and grass, they are utterly
unsuitable to be planted in a garden. Now, then, what is the use of
our life, if it stand still? As the water of a running stream is
always fresh and wholesome because it does not stop for a moment, so
life is ever fresh and new because it does not stand still, but
rapidly moves on from parents to children, from children to
grandchildren, from grandchildren to great-grandchildren, and flows
on through generation after generation, renewing itself ceaselessly.

We can never deny the existence of old age and death--nay, death is
of capital importance for a continuation of life, because death
carries away all the decaying organism in the way of life. But for
it life would be choked up with organic rubbish. The only way of
life's pushing itself onward or its renewing itself is its producing
of the young and getting rid of the old. If there be no old age nor
death, life is not life, but death.

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