“[FN#268] Se-ji-hyaku-dan. 12. 'The Five Ranks of Merit.' Thus far we have stated how to train our body and mind according to… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“8. Zen is not Nihilistic. Zen judged from ancient Zen masters' aphorisms may seem, at the first sight, to be idealistic in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“If it be said that it is the mind that produces Karma (I ask), what is the mind? If you mean the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“There is no mind isolated from body, nor is there any body separated from mind.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Some scholars maintain that we cannot think of non-existence of space, even if we can leave out all objects in it; nor… — Kaiten Nukariya 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 Copy Share Image
“The Highest Good consists," says he, "in the emptiness of mind and non-attachment. Transcendence is its cause, and Nirvana is its result.… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Self is living entity, not immutable like soul, but mutable and ever-changing life, which is body when observed by senses, and which… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“2. The First Step in the Mental Training. Some of the old Zen masters are said to have attained to supreme Enlightenment… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“If the movements of my hand are neither (too) gentle nor (too) violent, the idea in my mind is realized.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“2. The Doctrine of the Hinayanists. This doctrine tells us that (both) the body, that is formed of matter, and the mind,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“9. Zen and Idealism. Next Zen makes use of Idealism as explained by the Dharmalaksana School of Mahayana Buddhism.[FN#197] For instance, the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Buddha-nature may be compared with the sun, and individual mind with the sky. Then an Enlightened mind is like the sky in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Idealism is a most potent medicine for these self-created mental diseases. It will successfully drive away devils and spirits that frequent ignorant… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“There exists a Certain Thing, bright as a mirror, spiritual as a mind, not subjected to growth nor to decay.” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Now let us say (a few words) to refute this doctrine also. If mind as well as external objects be unreal, who… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Things appear, they would say, as we see them through our limited senses; but they must present entirely different aspects to those… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“It is not objective reality that displays the phenomenal universe before us, but it is our mind that plays an important part.… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Every activity of mind produces chemical and physiological changes in the nerve-centres, in the organs, and eventually in the whole body; while… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“To get Enlightened, therefore, we have to correct, first of all, our notions concerning Self. Individual body and mind are not the… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“3. The Next Step in the Mental Training. In the next place we have to strive to be the master of our… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“1. The Method of Instruction Adopted by Zen Masters. Thus far we have described the doctrine of Zen inculcated by both Chinese… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“4. The Third Step in the Mental Training. To be the lord of mind is more essential to Enlightenment, which, in a… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The fourth is 'the non-deprivation of both subject and object'—that is to say, the non-denial of subject and object—a view which holds… — 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
