Zen Philosophy
azw3 |eng | 2005-06-10 | Author:Yamada, Koun [Yamada, Koun]

THE CASE One day Tokusan kept asking Ryūtan for instruction till nightfall. Ryūtan finally said, “The night is late. Why don’t you go to bed.” Tokusan thanked him, made his ...
( Category: Asian January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Mitchell, Stephen [Mitchell, Stephen]

52. Lin-Chi's KATZ Whenever Zen Master Dok Sahn was asked a question, he would answer only by hitting the questioner. Zen Master Ku-ji would answer only by raising one finger, ...
( Category: Zen Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Zen Master So Sahn

54 When studying Buddhist sutras, if you do not reflect deeply on your own mind at the same time, you could study the entire 84,000-volume canon of the Buddha’s words ...
( Category: Zen Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-03-01 | Author:Pine, Red [Pine, Red]

Master K’uan-jung and Third Patriarch’s Stupa After nearly an hour, she stopped. But she wasn’t done. She heated the air in four glass cups, then placed them lid-side down along ...
( Category: Zen Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-10 | Author:Spellmeyer, Kurt [Spellmeyer, Kurt]

But doesn’t this way of thinking simply reinstate the world-creating/ world-destroying attitude that brought us to our impasse now? What if the world has never needed to be saved? What ...
( Category: Zen Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Loori, John Daido & Tanahashi, Kazuaki [Loori, John Daido]

CAPPING VERSE The mountain form is the body of truth; only the ear can see it. The valley sounds are the voice of the teachings; only the eye can hear ...
( Category: Zen Philosophy January 22,2015 )
mobi | | | Author:Robert M. Pirsig

19 A mat of sunlit pine needles by my face slowly tells me where I am and helps dispel a dream. In the dream I was standing in a white-painted ...
( Category: Philosophy January 6,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Warner, Brad [Warner, Brad]

WHY SHOULD YOU BELIEVE in any of this? Why should you care? No reason. No reason at all. There’s nothing I can possibly tell you that could communicate this state ...
( Category: Religious January 6,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hyon Gak

Abortion SOMEONE ASKED Zen Master Seung Sahn in Warsaw, “Nowadays in Poland, there is much fighting over the issue of abortion. Many people say that a woman and her doctor ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Vernon Kitabu Turner [Turner, Vernon Kitabu]

CHAPTER TEN I HAVE NO FRIENDS; I MAKE MY MIND MY FRIEND Years ago I heard a story about a man and his son. The man placed his little boy ...
( Category: Zen Philosophy November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Barry Magid

MUTUAL RECOGNITION YÜN-MEN’S MEDICINE AND DISEASE Yün-men (Jap. Unmon) said, “Medicine and disease quell each other. The whole world is medicine. What is your self?” One strand of Western philosophy, ...
( Category: Meditation August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-25 | Author:Osho, Osho International Foundation [Osho, Osho International Foundation]

What does a degree mean? I have got four: B.A., M.A., Ph.D., and LL.D. Put them all together and what have you got? – BAMAPHDLLD!A young man at college named ...
( Category: Meditation August 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:Friedrich Nietzsche [Nietzsche, Friedrich]

6 To give an idea of me as a psychologist I take a curious piece of psychology which occurs in ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ – I forbid, by the way, ...
( Category: Modern May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-02 | Author:Bodhidharma & Red Pine [Bodhidharma & Pine, Red]

Mortals liberate buddhas and buddhas liberate mortals. This is what’s meant by impartiality. Mortals liberate buddhas because affliction creates awareness. And buddhas liberate mortals because awareness negates affliction. There can’t ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-07-21 | Author:Robert M. Pirsig [Pirsig, Robert M.]

19 A mat of sunlit pine needles by my face slowly tells me where I am and helps dispel a dream. In the dream I was standing in a white-painted ...
( Category: Philosophy March 26,2014 )