“We ask Buddha for nothing. We ask Dharma for nothing. We ask Samgha for nothing." Nothing we ask of Buddha. No worldly… — 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
“At all events, she is the mother of all beings. She lives in all things and they live in her. All that… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Sit in a quiet place and meditate in imagination that body is no more bondage to you, that it is your machine… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“a so-called good person is none but one who acts to promote wider interests of life, and a so-called bad person is… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Therefore the Buddha for a temporary purpose made these (uninitiated) observe the Five Precepts similar to the Five Virtues[FN#327] of the outside… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Hinayanism is, generally speaking, inclined to be pessimistic, but Mahayanism in the main holds the optimistic view of life.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Life as observed only from the scientific point of view is bare abstraction; it is not concrete life; nor is life as… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The Scripture of Zen is written with facts simple and familiar, so simple and familiar with everyday life that they escape observation… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“the living altar of Buddha Himself. Whatever we do, we do with grateful heart and pure joy sanctioned by Enlightened Consciousness; eating,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“the Mahayanist's aim of life is to bring out man's inborn light of Buddha-nature to illumine the world, to realize the universal… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Life changes and is changeable; consequently, has its future. Hope is therefore possible.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“life as the causal system of physiological and psychological processes, and life as a system of interrelated-will-attitudes,” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Neither these men of the world nor Buddhist ascetics can be optimists. The latter rigorously deny themselves sensual gratifications, and keep themselves… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“16. The Beatitude of Zen. We are far from denying, as already shown in the foregoing chapters, the existence of troubles, pains,… — 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
“It is no less silly to trouble yourself about death than you do about gravitation. Can you realize that death, which you… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“11. Everything is Living according to Zen. Everything alive has a strong innate tendency to preserve itself, to assert itself, to push… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The believer in Buddha is thankful to him, not only for the sunshine of life, but also for its wind, rain, snow,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“When this innermost wisdom is fully awakened, we are able to realize that each and everyone of us is identical in spirit,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Zen masters enjoyed a long life in spite of their extremely simple mode of living.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“what is the use of our life, if it stand still? As the water of a running stream is always fresh and… — Kaiten Nukariya 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 Copy Share Image
“Faith must be living and growing, and the living and growing faith should assume no fixed form. It might seem for a… — 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 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“(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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
