Kaiten Nukariya

“Having set ourselves free from the misconception of Self, next we must awaken our innermost wisdom, pure and divine, called the Mind…

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“9. Life and Change. Transformation and change are the essential features of life; life is not transformation nor change itself,”

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“Therefore, to get Enlightened we have to believe that all beings are Buddha-natured—that is, absolutely good-natured in the sense that transcends the…

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“Therefore we may safely conclude that there are no definite external causes of pain and pleasure, and that there must be internal…

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“Is it true, sir," asked a monk of Teu tsz (To-shi), "that all the voices of Nature are those of Buddha?”

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“5. There is no Mortal who is Purely Moral. By nature man should be either good or bad; or he should be…

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“both the Samurai and the Zen monk have to undergo a strict discipline and endure privation without complaint.”

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“What does his Reality or Truth imply? Do they denote or connote anything? Mere name! mere abstraction!”

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“So that no matter how morally degenerated one may be, he can uplift himself to a high ethical plane by the widening…

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“13. Universal Life is Universal Spirit. These considerations naturally lead us to see that Universal Life is not a blind vital force,…

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“This is the truth of Marga.' The truth of Marga, or Path, is the fourth of the four Satyas. There are the…

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“To be in an honourable position in society as the owner of that valuable property, he must first get rid himself of…

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“Of these three collections of the Sacred Writings, the first two, or Sutra and Vinaya, of Mahayana, as well as of Himayana,…

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“Shall we perish in the darkness of scepticism, shutting our eyes to the light of Tathagata? Shall we suffer from innumerable pains…

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“The world is built on the foundation of morality, which is another name for Universal Spirit, and moral order sustains it. We…

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“Yang Shan (Kyo-zan) asked Wei Shan (I-san): 'What shall we do when hundreds, thousands, and millions of things beset us all at…

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“Idle thoughts come and go over unenlightened minds six hundred and fifty times in a snap of one's fingers," writes an Indian…

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“Deprive yourself of all the possible relationships, and see what you are. Suppose you are not a son to your parents, nor…

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“Tathagata (another name for Buddha) gives life to all beings, just as the lake Anavatapta gives rise to the four great rivers."…

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“These teachers could through long practice constantly keep their minds buoyant, casting aside useless encumbrances of idle thoughts; bright, driving off the…

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“Ki-saburo, although he was a mere outlaw, having his left arm half cut at the elbow in a quarrel, ordered his servant…

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“Once upon a time a hunter skilled in catching monkeys alive went into the wood. He put something very sticky on the…

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“Nirvana," says Kiai Hwan,[FN#276] "means the extinction of pain or the crossing over of the sea of life and death. It denotes…

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“The first step in the mental training is to become the master of external things. He who is addicted to worldly pleasures,…

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“The belief in immortality is based on the strong instinct of self-preservation that calls forth an insatiable longing for longevity. It is…

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“comparing it with a gem says: "There exists a bright gem illuminating through the worlds in ten directions by its light."[FN#143]”

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“the world itself, too, is changing and changeable. It reveals new phases from time to time, and can be moulded to subserve…

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“When we are Enlightened, or when Universal Spirit awakens within us, we open the inexhaustible store of virtues and excellencies, and can…

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“Although all sentient beings are endowed with this Enlightened Consciousness, they are not aware of its existence, excepting men who can discover…

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“purely good actions are those actions which subserve and never hinder human interests either material or spiritual, such as humanity and love…

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“The highly enlightened person, however, cannot but sympathize with human beings and lower creatures as well, as Shakya Muni felt all sentient…

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“the Buddha, aged seventy-two, thought it was high time to preach his long-cherished doctrine that all sentient beings can attain to Supreme…

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“All women are our mothers; all men our fathers; all earth and water our bodies in the past existences; all fire and…

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“12. The Great Person and Small Person. For these reasons Zen proposes to call man Buddha-natured or Good-natured in a sense transcendental…

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“It is the divine light, the inner heaven, the key to all moral treasures, the centre of thought and consciousness, the source…

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“If you remember even a name of Buddha, it would deprive you of purity of heart." The conventional or orthodox idea of…

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“Nothing is more irreligious than to persecute the seekers of truth in order to keep up absurdities and superstitions of bygone ages.…

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“Idealism is a most potent medicine for these self-created mental diseases. It will successfully drive away devils and spirits that frequent ignorant…

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“The Highest Good consists," says he, "in the emptiness of mind and non-attachment. Transcendence is its cause, and Nirvana is its result.…

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“express their Buddha-nature to a small extent mostly within their own doors, while so-called good persons, or 'great persons' as the Oriental…

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