“Zen is noted for its physical and mental training. That the daily practice of Zazen[FN#12] and the breathing exercise remarkably improves one's… — Kaiten Nukariya Fitness Copy Share Image
“Having set ourselves free from the misconception of Self, next we must awaken our innermost wisdom, pure and divine, called the Mind… — Kaiten Nukariya Buddha Copy Share Image
“How would you be if you should not die when your body is broken to pieces or terribly burned by an accident—say,” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“it involves the control or sacrifice of the lower and ignoble self of an individual in order to realize his higher and… — Kaiten Nukariya Identity Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is beyond Description and Analysis 2. Enlightenment Implies an Insight into the Nature of Self” — Kaiten Nukariya Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Has there been any traitor who performed the ignoble conduct to promote the welfare of his own country or society at large?… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Suppose an absolutely changeless body: it must be absolutely lifeless. An eternally changeless life is equivalent to an eternally changeless death.” — Kaiten Nukariya Death Copy Share Image
“Faith, sympathy, friendship, love, loyalty, and generosity dwell not merely in palaces and churches, but also in brothels and gaols.” — Kaiten Nukariya Brothels Copy Share Image
“God divided man into men that they might help each other.' Their strength lies in their mutual help, their pleasure is in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“soul is taken as a subject matter to receive in the future life the reward or the punishment from God for our… — Kaiten Nukariya Boundless love Copy Share Image
“Reality exists as appearances, and appearances are reality known to human beings. You cannot separate appearances from reality, and hold out the… — Kaiten Nukariya Dreams Copy Share Image
“Zen holds that the faith must be based not on the dead Scriptures, but on living facts, that one must turn over… — Kaiten Nukariya Daily life Copy Share Image
“Zen is completely free from the fetters of old dogmas, dead creeds, and conventions of stereotyped past, that check the development of… — Kaiten Nukariya Meditation 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 Change Copy Share Image
“in practical life, of doubtful nature. An act of charity, for example, might do others some sort of damage, as is often… — Kaiten Nukariya Generosity Copy Share Image
“Life has its pleasures, but also its pains. Death has no pleasure of life, but also none of its pain. So that… — Kaiten Nukariya Death Copy Share Image
“Tathagata (another name for Buddha) gives life to all beings, just as the lake Anavatapta gives rise to the four great rivers."… — Kaiten Nukariya Buddha Copy Share Image
“Ki-saburo, although he was a mere outlaw, having his left arm half cut at the elbow in a quarrel, ordered his servant… — Kaiten Nukariya Robbers Copy Share Image
“Idle thoughts come and go over unenlightened minds six hundred and fifty times in a snap of one's fingers," writes an Indian… — Kaiten Nukariya Psychology Copy Share Image
“To sit in Meditation is not the only method of practising Zazen. "We practise Dhyana in sitting, in standing, and in walking,"… — Kaiten Nukariya Actual life Copy Share Image
“Difficulties are no match for the optimist, who does not fly from them, but welcomes them. He has a mental prism which… — Kaiten Nukariya Adversity Copy Share Image
“The fifth stage is called the Rank of Merit-over-Merit,[FN#274] which means the rank of meritless-merit. This is the rank of the King… — Kaiten Nukariya Enlightened Consciousness Copy Share Image
“It is quite reasonable that Zenists distinguish supernatural powers from spiritual uplifting, the former an acquirement of Devas, or of Asuras, or… — Kaiten Nukariya Buddhism Copy Share Image
“6. The Breathing Exercise of the Yogi. Breathing exercise is one of the practices of Yoga, and somewhat similar in its method… — Kaiten Nukariya Fitness Copy Share Image
“The Rin-zai teachers mostly make use of the doctrine of unreality of all things, as taught in Prajnya-paramita-sutras.” — Kaiten Nukariya Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“it became one of the characteristics of Zen monks that they would never approach rulers and statesmen for the sake of worldly… — Kaiten Nukariya Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“Chwen Hih (Hu dai shi), known as Chwen the Great. He is said to have been accustomed to wear a Confucianist hat,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Who can live the same moment twice? In comparison with an organism, inorganic matter appears to be constant and changeless; but, in… — Kaiten Nukariya Biology Copy Share Image
“If the primitive faith be called the genuine, as these scholars think, and the later developed faith be the degenerated one,” — Kaiten Nukariya Faith Copy Share Image
“Enlightened Consciousness 16. Buddha Dwelling in the Individual Mind Enlightened Consciousness is not an Intellectual Insight” — Kaiten Nukariya Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“The retribution cannot be explained by the doctrine of the transmigration of the soul, for it is incompatible with the fundamental doctrine… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Confucianism, assimilating the Buddhist teachings, especially those of Zen, into itself and changing its entire aspect, brought forth the so-called Speculative philosophy.[FN#13]” — Kaiten Nukariya Buddhism Copy Share Image
“I simply worship Buddha. I ask Buddha for nothing. I ask Dharma for nothing. I ask Samgha for nothing.” — Kaiten Nukariya Buddha Copy Share Image
“Keep the secret I tell you now, even at the cost of your life. It is this-don't be passionate. That is all."[FN#268]” — Kaiten Nukariya Life Copy Share Image
“Enlightened Consciousness in the individual mind acquires for its possessor, not a relative knowledge of things as his intellect does, but the… — Kaiten Nukariya Enlightened Copy Share Image
“If a wise man hold his body with its three parts (chest, neck, and head) erect, and turn his senses with the… — Kaiten Nukariya Fear Copy Share Image
“Arhat, the Killer of thieves (i.e., passions), means one who conquered his passions. It means, secondly, one who is exempted from birth,… — Kaiten Nukariya Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“Buddhist as well as non-Buddhist religions regard, without exception, their founders as superhuman beings, but the practisers of Zen hold the Buddha… — Kaiten Nukariya Buddhist Copy Share Image
“The good are rewarded morally, not physically; their own virtues, honours, mental peace, and satisfaction are ample compensation for their goodness. Confucius,… — Kaiten Nukariya Character Copy Share Image
“The sole means of securing mental calmness is the practice of Zazen, or the sitting in Meditation. This method was known in… — Kaiten Nukariya Meditation Copy Share Image
![“Zen is noted for its physical and mental training. That the daily practice of Zazen[FN#12] and the breathing exercise remarkably improves one's physical condition is an established fact.” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f41/kaiten-nukariya-793_fitness_zen-is-noted-for-its-physical-and-mental_1866290.jpg)
![“Having set ourselves free from the misconception of Self, next we must awaken our innermost wisdom, pure and divine, called the Mind of Buddha,[FN#190] or Bodhi,[FN#191] or Prajnya[FN#192] by Zen masters.” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/46f/kaiten-nukariya-793_buddha_having-set-ourselves-free-from-the-misco_2837291.jpg)
![“Ki-saburo, although he was a mere outlaw, having his left arm half cut at the elbow in a quarrel, ordered his servant to cut it off with a saw, and during the operation he could calmly sit talking and laughing with his friends. Hiko-kuro (Takayama),[FN#235] a Japanese loyalist of note, one evening…” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/093/kaiten-nukariya-793_quote_ki-saburo-although-he-was-a-mere-outlaw_351553.jpg)
![“Idle thoughts come and go over unenlightened minds six hundred and fifty times in a snap of one's fingers," writes an Indian teacher,[FN#260] "and thirteen hundred million times every twenty-four hours." This might be an exaggeration, yet we cannot but acknowledge that one idle thought after…” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/abe/kaiten-nukariya-793_psychology_idle-thoughts-come-and-go-over-unenlight_272679.jpg)
![“The fifth stage is called the Rank of Merit-over-Merit,[FN#274] which means the rank of meritless-merit. This is the rank of the King himself. The King does nothing meritorious, because all the governmental works are done by his ministers and subjects. All that he has to do is to keep his inborn…” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/408/kaiten-nukariya-793_enlightened-consciou_the-fifth-stage-is-called-the-rank-of-me_2735940.jpg){kind=icon}
![“6. The Breathing Exercise of the Yogi. Breathing exercise is one of the practices of Yoga, and somewhat similar in its method and end to those of Zen. We quote here[FN#247] Yogi Ramacharaka to show how modern Yogis practise it: "(1) Stand or sit erect. Breathing through the nostrils, inhale…” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4fb/kaiten-nukariya-793_fitness_6-the-breathing-exercise-of-the-yogi-bre_656643.jpg)
![“Confucianism, assimilating the Buddhist teachings, especially those of Zen, into itself and changing its entire aspect, brought forth the so-called Speculative philosophy.[FN#13]” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d04/kaiten-nukariya-793_buddhism_confucianism-assimilating-the-buddhist-t_2060117.jpg)
![“Keep the secret I tell you now, even at the cost of your life. It is this-don't be passionate. That is all."[FN#268]” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/93a/kaiten-nukariya-793_life_keep-the-secret-i-tell-you-now-even-at-t_143035.jpg)
![“The sole means of securing mental calmness is the practice of Zazen, or the sitting in Meditation. This method was known in India as Yoga as early as the Upanisad period, and developed by the followers of the Yoga system.[FN#243]” quote by Kaiten Nukariya](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fb0/kaiten-nukariya-793_meditation_the-sole-means-of-securing-mental-calmne_603846.jpg)