An introduction to Zen Buddhism

PRACTICAL ZEN ThisbroughtoutKyozan'scomment,"Thenyouhavenot wastedyoursummer." A Confucianscholar writes,"They seekthetruth toof ...

AN INTRODUCTIONTOZEN BUDDHISM Zenthatissupposedtobesofxillofirrationalities,or,ifyoulike toputitso,sofullofthehighestspeculation ...

PRACTICAL ZEN thatisinthewrongwithme."Isthisnotsimpleenough?—jxist callingonebyname?Chu'slastcommentmaynotbesovery intelligiblef ...

AN INTRODUCTION TO ZEN BUDDHISM one's natviralbent withoutquestioning its originandvalue. Thereisagreatdifferencebetweenhumanact ...

PRACTICAL ZEN "Whatismeantby'thereisnoabiding'?" "When themindis not abidingin anypartioilarobject, wcsaythatitabideswheretherei ...

VII SATORI, OR ACQUIRING A NEW VIEWPOINT^ ThHEobjectofZendisciplineconsistsinacquiringanewview- pointforlookingintotheessenceoft ...

SATORI, OR ACQUIRING ANEW VIEWPOINT "Go and get your bowls washed," was the immediate response.Andthissuggestionatonceopenedthem ...

ANINTRODUCTION TO ZENBUDDHISM Thiamade Hyakujo'sbackwetwithperspiration;hehad satori. Isthereanypossibleconnectionbetweenthewash ...

8ATORI, ORACQUIRING A NEWVIEWPOINT throughDoken'smindwhenhisfriend Sogengavehim such matter-of-factadvice? Kyogen(Hsiang-yen)was ...

AN INTRODUCTION TOZEN BUDDHISM realized that this experience could not have happened to him ifYisan had been unkind enough to ex ...

SATORI, OR ACQUIRINGA NEW VIEWPOINT textwithwhichyouareperfectlyfamiliarwhichfitlydescribes theteachingofZen.DidnotConfuciusdecl ...

AN INTRODUCTION TOZEN BUDDHISM sonage.Hisfirstexclamationwas,"Thereisnotmuchafterall in the Buddhism ofObaku." And when he again ...

SATORI, OR ACQUIRING A NEWVIEWPOINT 1. People often imagine that the discipline ofZen is to produce a state ofself-suggestion th ...

AN INTRODUCTION TOZENBUDDHISM hadfailed to produce thedesired effect, and their disciples thereby had been farther and farther l ...

8ATORI, OR ACQUIRING A NEWVIEWPOINT bysome Christianmystics.Zenhasfromthebeginningmade clearandinsisteduf)onthemainthesis,whichi ...

AN INTRODUCTION TOZEN BUDDHISM parent. Thesubjectiverevolutionthatbringsaboutthisstate ofthingscannotbecalledabnormal.Whenlifebe ...

VIII THE KOAJ^ XJENisauniqueproductoftheOrientalmindanditsunique- nessconsists,sofarasitspracticalaspectgoes,initsmethodical tra ...

AN INTRODUCTIONTO ZENBUDDHISM Others.Somewere moralists morethananythingelse, others werestudentsofDhyana,andstillothersweredevo ...

THE KOAN "to maintain". Dhyana thus means to hold one's thought collected, nottolet thoughtwanderaway fromitslegitimate path; th ...

AN INTRODUCTION TO ZEN BUDDHISM to the Chinese Buddhists to the intellectual mastery ofthe texts.TheethicalstudyofBuddhismcamene ...