“we experience that our life is not a bare mechanical motion or change, but is a spiritual, purposive, and self-directing force.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“A peculiar phase of life is change which appears in the form of growth and decay. Nobody can deny the transitoriness of… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Zen is Iconoclastic 3. Buddha is Unnamable 4. Buddha, the Universal Life 5. Life and Change” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The moon appears standing still when you look at her only a few moments. In like manner she seems to be free… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“9. Life and Change. Transformation and change are the essential features of life; life is not transformation nor change itself,” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“the world itself, too, is changing and changeable. It reveals new phases from time to time, and can be moulded to subserve… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“An important element in the pleasure we derive from social meetings, from travels, from sight-seeings, etc., is nothing but change. Even intellectual… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Everything in the world may be doubtful to you, but it can never be doubted that you will die." Life is like… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Why do we prize changing organism more than inorganic matter, unchanging and constant? If there be no change in the bright hues… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“8. Change as seen by Zen. Zen, like Hinayanism, does not deny the doctrine of Transience, but it has come to a… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Change as seen by Zen 9. Life and Change 10. Life, Change, and Hope 11. Everything is Living according to Zen 12.… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“So are our lives. They are no other than the transformation of the Vijnyanas; but in consequence of illusion, we take them… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“the new theory of matter has entirely over thrown the old conception of the unchanging atoms, and they are now regarded to be composed… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“5. Nature is the Mother of All Things. Furthermore, man has come into existence out of Nature. He is her child. She provided him… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“Rin-zai also says: "Spirit is formless, but it penetrates through the world in the ten directions."[FN#149] The Sixth Patriarch expresses the same idea more… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“(O-yo-mei) won a splendid victory over the rebel army which threatened the throne of the Ming dynasty. During that warfare Wang was giving a… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“in the use of the terms 'good' and 'bad.' Now let us examine how does good differ from bad. A good action ever promotes… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“Although all sentient beings are endowed with this Enlightened Consciousness, they are not aware of its existence, excepting men who can discover it by… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“There are a good many people always buoyant in spirit and mirthful in appearance as if born optimists. There are also no fewer persons… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“it is the overcoming of egoism, the destroying of mean desires, the uplifting of the moral ideal, and the disclosing of inborn wisdom. [FN#12]” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“The fourth stage is called the Rank of Co-operative Merit,[FN#273] in which the student 'co-operates' with other persons in order to complete his merit.… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“It is bare nonsense to say that I go to school, not to be educated as a member of society, but simply to gratify… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“8. The Application of the Law of Causation to Morals. Although it may be needless to state here the law of causation at any… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“2. The Errors of Philosophical Pessimists and Religious Optimists. Philosophical pessimists[FN#214] maintain that there are on earth many more causes of pain than of… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“4. Man is neither Good-natured nor Bad-natured according to Su Shih (So-shoku).[FN#164] The difficulty may be avoided by a theory given by Su Shih… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
“Over against these generalizations we raise no objection, but there are many cases, in practical life, of doubtful nature. An act of charity, for… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share
