“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Buddhism 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 Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“Yang Shan (Kyo-zan) asked Wei Shan (I-san): 'What shall we do when hundreds, thousands, and millions of things beset us all at… — Kaiten Nukariya Meditation Copy Share Image
“It is the divine light, the inner heaven, the key to all moral treasures, the centre of thought and consciousness, the source… — Kaiten Nukariya Character Copy Share Image
“If you remember even a name of Buddha, it would deprive you of purity of heart." The conventional or orthodox idea of… — Kaiten Nukariya Buddha Copy Share Image
“Of these three collections of the Sacred Writings, the first two, or Sutra and Vinaya, of Mahayana, as well as of Himayana,… — Kaiten Nukariya Education Copy Share Image
“Shall we perish in the darkness of scepticism, shutting our eyes to the light of Tathagata? Shall we suffer from innumerable pains… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The world is built on the foundation of morality, which is another name for Universal Spirit, and moral order sustains it. We… — Kaiten Nukariya Character Copy Share Image
“The third stage is called the Rank of Merit,[FN#272] in which the student distinguishes himself by his 'meritorious' acts of conquering 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 Faith Copy Share Image
“Individual self should be a poor miserable thing if it were not essentially connected with the Universal Life. We can always enjoy… — Kaiten Nukariya Happiness Copy Share Image
“Although all of the above-mentioned five doctrines were preached by the Buddha Himself, yet there are some that belong to the Sudden,… — Kaiten Nukariya Education Copy Share Image
“To be the ruler of things we have first to shut up all our senses, and turn the currents of thoughts inward,… — Kaiten Nukariya Goals Copy Share Image
“Once become conscious of Divine Life within you, yon can see it in your brethren, no matter how different they may be… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“10. Idealism is a Potent Medicine for Self-created Mental Disease. In so far as Buddhist idealism refers to the world of sense,… — Kaiten Nukariya Buddhism Copy Share Image
“11. Let Go of your Idle Thoughts.[FN#263] [FN#263] A famous Zenist, Mu-go-koku-shi, is said to have replied to every questioner, saying: "Let… — Kaiten Nukariya Beautiful flowers 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Enlightened Consciousness 16. Buddha Dwelling in the Individual Mind Enlightened Consciousness is not an Intellectual Insight” — Kaiten Nukariya Enlightenment 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
“12. The Great Person and Small Person. For these reasons Zen proposes to call man Buddha-natured or Good-natured in a sense transcendental… — Kaiten Nukariya Buddha Copy Share Image
“All women are our mothers; all men our fathers; all earth and water our bodies in the past existences; all fire and… — Kaiten Nukariya Essence Copy Share Image
“the Buddha, aged seventy-two, thought it was high time to preach his long-cherished doctrine that all sentient beings can attain to Supreme… — Kaiten Nukariya Buddhism Copy Share Image
“the world itself, too, is changing and changeable. It reveals new phases from time to time, and can be moulded to subserve… — Kaiten Nukariya Change Copy Share Image
“comparing it with a gem says: "There exists a bright gem illuminating through the worlds in ten directions by its light."[FN#143]” — Kaiten Nukariya Light Copy Share Image
“When we are Enlightened, or when Universal Spirit awakens within us, we open the inexhaustible store of virtues and excellencies, and can… — Kaiten Nukariya Character 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… — Kaiten Nukariya Enlightened Copy Share Image
“purely good actions are those actions which subserve and never hinder human interests either material or spiritual, such as humanity and love… — Kaiten Nukariya Good actions Copy Share Image
“The highly enlightened person, however, cannot but sympathize with human beings and lower creatures as well, as Shakya Muni felt all sentient… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
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