epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Robert Aitken

The Three Refuges At the beginning of our sutra services, we chant in Pali the “Ti Sarana Gamana”: Buddhaṃ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi; Dhammaṃ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi; Sanghaṃ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi.34 In using the ...

mobi |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:D.T. Suzuki

‘While living, one sits up and lies not, When dead, one lies and sits not; A set of ill-smelling skeleton! What is the use of toiling and moiling so?’ This ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Bobrow

CHAPTER 6 Knowing the Truth And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. — JOHN, 8:32 Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hubert Benoit [Benoit, Hubert]

Chapter Fifteen SENSATION AND SENTIMENT AT each given moment of emotion there exists a relation, as we have said, between the images which pass across our mind and our sub-jacent ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-25 | Author:Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro [Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro]

Appendices To Part 1 Transmigration DOES Buddhism teach transmigration? If it does, how does it work? Does the soul really transmigrate? Such questions are frequently asked, and I will try ...

epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Cleary

Hung-chih Sermons EMPTY YET AWARE, the original light shines spontaneously; tranquil yet responsive, the great function manifests. A wooden horse neighing in the wind does not walk the steps of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Huai-Chin Nan

BUDDHISM IN EUROPE AND AMERICA Now that the conditions of Buddhism in Korea, Japan, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Tibet, and other Asian areas have been examined, it's time to examine the ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Jules Shuzen Harris & Pat Enkyo O'Hara

SUMMARY OF THE REALMS God realm—indolence, pleasure, comfort, lack of compassion, addiction. Demigod realm—jealousy, anger, arrogance, aggression, desire for power. Human realm—doubt, passion, change. Animal realm—sensual craving, fear, ignorance (reacting ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jack Maguire

* * * As Zen Buddhism evolved in Japan, it affected every aspect of Japanese culture. The result was the emergence of many refined art and body practices through which ...

epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Cleary

STUDYING ZEN DO YOU want to study Zen? You must let go. Let go of what? Let go of the four elements and five clusters, let go of consciousness conditioned ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-05 | Author:Ryuho Okawa [Okawa, Ryuho]

The Meaning of Life and Death Next, I would like to look at the Buddhist views of life and death. When Shakyamuni was living, India was ravaged by continual wars ...

epub |eng | | Author:robert aitken [robert aitken]

The Three Refuges At the beginning of our sutra services, we chant in Pali the “Ti Sarana Gamana”: Buddhaṃ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi; Dhammaṃ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi; Sanghaṃ saraṇaṁ gacchāmi.³⁴ In using the ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Tenshin Reb Anderson [Anderson, Tenshin Reb]

If we continue to be upright, even in circumstances where pain and anxiety are present, eventually the separation between self and other, mind and object, is revealed as insubstantial and ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Daido Loori

Photo from the National Buddhist Archive The Ten Grave Precepts WISDOM MIND The precepts contain the totality of the teachings of the Buddhadharma. This is not immediately apparent, and it ...

epub |eng | 2001-09-09 | Author:Thich Nhat Hanh

Chant Your Heart Sutra Daily We can all learn something from the story of the woman who was saved by the love letters she kept in a biscuit box. When ...