“As we men live and act, so do our arteries; so does blood; so do corpuscles. As cells and protoplasm live and… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“To forget self and identify it with nature is to break down its limitation and to set it at liberty. To break… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Ye who seek for purity and peace, go to Nature. She will give you more than ye ask. Ye who long for… — Kaiten Nukariya 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 Copy Share Image
“5. There is no Mortal who is Purely Moral. By nature man should be either good or bad; or he should be… — 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 Copy Share Image
“Is it true, sir," asked a monk of Teu tsz (To-shi), "that all the voices of Nature are those of Buddha?” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“3. The Law of Balance. Nature governs the world with her law of balance. She puts things ever in pairs,[FN#216] and leaves… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Life Consists in Conflict 5. The Mystery of Life 6. Nature favours Nothing in Particular 7. The Law of Balance in Life… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Zen's object of worship cannot be named and determined as God, or Brahman, or Amitabha, or Creator, or Nature, or Reality, or… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The earth and the heaven utter no word, but they ceaselessly repeat the holy book unwritten.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“When we get the insight into this Self, we are able to have the open sesame to the mysteries of the universe,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Nature favours nothing in particular. So everything has its advantage and disadvantage as well. What one gains on the one hand one… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Most people regard death as the greatest of evils, only because they fear death. They fear death only because they have the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Suppose there were only births and no deaths. The earth has to be packed with men and women, who are doomed to… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Enlightened Consciousness, or Buddha-nature, as we have seen in the previous chapter, is the mind of mind and the consciousness of consciousness,… — 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
“According to the theory of Buddha-nature, the fact that the good become bad or the bad become good, does not imply in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“mind is pure and bright in its nature like a mirror, but the dirt and dust of passions and of low desires… — 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
