An introduction to Zen Buddhism

THE KOAN Theinterferencebsometimeshelpful,sometimesdecidedlynot Asaruleitworkstwoways.Wewelcomehumaninterference whenmoreistobeg ...

ANINTRODUCTION TO ZEN BUDDHISM collegetopassthroughacertaincourseofstudies,butoutofan innerimpelling necessitywhichstirred up hi ...

THE KOAN factthatwhathehassofaracceptedasacommonplacefact,or as a logical impossibility, is not necessarily so, and that his for ...

AN INTRODUCTION TO ZEN BUDDHISM thesecretchamberofthemind,wherethedevoteescanfind numberlesstreasuresstored.Thesenseofseeingorhe ...

THEKOAN withphilosophy;Zenhasitsownreasonforstandingforitself, andthisfactmustneverbelostsightof;otherwise,theentire structureof ...

ANINTRODUCTION TO ZENBUDDHISM Zenwasbeyondquestion.Butfromourcommon-sensepointof viewnoamountofintellectual resourcefulnesscanbe ...

THE KOAN approachablethroughits rationality;whateverdoubtordiffi- cultywemayhavehadaboutitdissolvesitselfbypursuingthe naturalcu ...

AN INTRODUCTION TO ZEN BUDDHISM Whentherewasasyet nosystemofkoan,Zenwasmore naturalandpurerperhaps, butitwasonlythefewelectwho c ...

THE KOAN objectinview.Zenisnotlikeotherformsofmysticism,entirely lefttothesporadicnatureorcapriciousnessofluckforitsex- perience ...

AN INTRODUCTION TO ZEN BUDDHISM or"Ihearasound,"or"Isecthefist," Zenisnomorethere. Itislikeaflashoflightning,thereisnoroom,notim ...

THE KOAN factand pointingtothesametruth?Oraretheynotonlyin wordsbutinfactandtruthcontradictingoneanother?Letus examinemoremaster ...

ANINTRODUCTIONTO ZENBUDDHISM thekoanswhicharegiventoZenstudentsforsolution,afewof themaregivenhere.WhenKyosanreceivedamirrorfrom ...

THE KOAN "IfSO,tellmehowitis,"demandedthemaster. Kyogenthenbroughthimacupoftea. Yisanremarked:"Oyoutwomonks,whatintelligentfello ...

ANINTRODUCTION TOZEN BUDDHISM speculationandabstractionwillneverobtainthedepthsofit, which can be sounded only through the highe ...

THE KOAN Mumonkwan, Kwaiankokugo, etc. Infact, all the Zenwritings knownasGoroku(Wu-lu,"sayingsanddialogues")aswellasthe biograp ...

IX THE MEDITATION HALL AND THE MONK'S LIFE^ ThHEMeditationHall{zendo)iswhereZeneducatesitsmonks. Toseehowitisregulatedistogetagl ...

THEMEDITATION HALLAND THE MONK's LIFE isthattheirmindandbodydonotactinunison;theirbodyis always separated from their mind, and t ...

AN INTRODUCTION TO ZENBUDDHISM rectangularbuildingofdifferentsizesaccordingtothenumber ofmonkstobeaccommodated.TheoneatEngakuji, ...

THE MEDITATION HALLAND THE MONKS LIFE English sense,isno breakfast. TheZenmonkissupposed to havenoeveningmeal,buttheclimaticnece ...

ANINTRODUCTION TO ZEN BUDDHISM sumptuousdinner,theythinkofthosedepartedspiritsandother beingswhoareUvinginthisandotherworlds,and ...