Buddhism
The Examination Of The Notion Of Self
The belief in immortality is based on the strong instinct of
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Life Change And Hope
The doctrine of Transcience never drives us to the pessimisti...
Idealism Is A Potent Medicine For Self-created Mental Disease
In so far as Buddhist idealism refers to the world of sense, ...
The Second And The Third Patriarchs
After the death of the First Patriarch, in A.D. 528, Hwui Ko ...
Enlightened Consciousness
In addition to these considerations, which mainly depend on i...
The Great Person And Small Person
For these reasons Zen proposes to call man Buddha-natured or
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The Beatitude Of Zen
We are far from denying, as already shown in the foregoing ch...
Life And Change
A peculiar phase of life is change which appears in the form ...
Missionary Activity Of The Sixth Patriarch
As we have seen above, the Sixth Patriarch was a great genius...
Shakya Muni And The Prodigal Son
A great trouble with us is that we do not believe in half the...
Nature Is The Mother Of All Things
Furthermore, man has come into existence out of Nature. He i...
The Characteristics Of Do-gen The Founder Of The Japanese So To Sect
In the meantime seekers after a new truth gradually began to ...
Man Is Both Good-natured And Bad-natured According To Yan Hiung Yo-yu
According to Yang Hiung and his followers, good is no less re...
Where Then Does The Error Lie?
Where, then, does the error lie in the four possible proposit...
Zen Under The Toku-gana Shogunate
Peace was at last restored by Iye-yasu, the founder of the To...
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...
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...
Idealistic Scepticism Concerning Religion And Morality
Similarly, it is the case with religion and morality. If we ...
Zen And The Regent Generals Of The Ho-jo Period
No wonder, then, that the representatives of the Samurai clas...
The Five Ranks Of Merit
Thus far we have stated how to train our body and mind accord...
