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Kaiten Nukariya The Religion of the Samurai A study of Zen philosophy and discipline in China and Japan II IntraText Edition CT Copyright EuloTech 2007 - See also: Credits

IntraText CT is the hypertextualized text together with wordlists and concordances. Help: Overview - Text & search - Lists - Concordances - Glossary - For easier reading... - Table of Contents - See also: Index of footnotes Statistics and graphs (Occurrences: 82458. Words: 8516) THE RELIGION OF THE SAMURAI INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I HISTORY OF ZEN IN CHINA 1. Origin of Zen in India. 2. Introduction of Zen into China by Bodhidharma. 3. Bodhidharma and the Emperor Wu. 4. Bodhidharma and his Successor the Second Patriarch. 5. Bodhidharma's Disciples and the Transmission of the Law. 6. The Second and the Third Patriarchs. 7. The Fourth Patriarch and the Emperor Tai Tsung (Tai-so). 8. The Fifth and the Sixth Patriarchs. 9. The Spiritual Attainment of the Sixth Patriarch. 10. Flight of the Sixth Patriarch. 11. The Development of the Southern and of the Northern School of Zen. 12. Missionary Activity of the Sixth Patriarch. 13. The Disciples under the Sixth Patriarch. 14. Three Important Elements of Zen. 15. Decline of Zen. CHAPTER II HISTORY OF ZEN IN JAPAN 1. The Establishment of the Rin Zai School of Zen in Japan. 2. The Introduction of the So-To School of Zen. 3. The Characteristics of Do-gen, the Founder of the Japanese So To Sect. 4. The Social State of Japan when Zen was established by Ei-sai and Do-gen. 5. The Resemblance of the Zen Monk to the Samurai. 6. The Honest Poverty of the Zen Monk and the Samurai. 7. The Manliness of the Zen Monk and of the Samurai. 8. The Courage and the Composure of Mind of the Zen Monk and of the Samurai. 9. Zen and the Regent Generals of the Ho-Jo Period. 10. Zen after the Downfall of the Ho-Jo Regency. 11. Zen in the Dark Age. 12. Zen under the Toku-gana Shogunate. 13. Zen after the Restoration. CHAPTER III THE UNIVERSE IS THE SCRIPTURE OF ZEN 1. Scripture is no More than Waste Paper. 2. No Need of the Scriptural Authority for Zen. 3. The Usual Explanation of the Canon. 4. Sutras used by Zen Masters. 5. A Sutra Equal in Size to the Whole World. 6. Great Men and Nature. 7. The Absolute and Reality are but an Abstraction. 8. The Sermon of the Inanimate. CHAPTER IV BUDDHA, THE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT 1. The Ancient Buddhist Pantheon. 2. Zen is Iconoclastic. 3. Buddha is Unnamable. 4. Buddha, the Universal Life. 5. Life and Change. 6. Pessimistic View of the Ancient Hindus. 7. Hinayanism and its Doctrine. 8. Change as seen by Zen. 9. Life and Change. 10. Life, Change, and Hope. 11. Everything is Living according to Zen. 12. The Creative Force of Nature and Humanity. 13. Universal Life is Universal Spirit. 14. Poetical Intuition and Zen. 15. Enlightened Consciousness. 16. Buddha Dwelling in the Individual Mind. 17. Enlightened Consciousness is not an Intellectual Insight. 18. Our Conception of Buddha is not Final. 19. How to Worship Buddha. CHAPTER V THE NATURE OF MAN 1. Man is Good-natured according to Mencius. 2. Man is Bad-natured according to Siün Tsz (Jun-shi). 3. Man is both Good-natured and Bad-natured according to Yan Hiung (Yo-yu). 4. Man is neither Good-natured nor Bad-natured according to Su Shih (So-shoku). 5. There is no Mortal who is Purely Moral. 6. There is no Mortal who is Non-Moral or Purely Immoral. 7. Where, then, does the Error Lie? 8. Man is not Good-natured nor Bad-natured, but Buddha-natured. 9. The Parable of the Robber Kih. 10. Wang Yang Ming (O-yo-mei) and a Thief. 11. The Bad are the Good in the Egg. 12. The Great Person and Small Person. 13. The Theory of Buddha-Nature adequately explains the Ethical States of Man. 14. Buddha-Nature is the Common Source of Morals. 15. The Parable of a Drunkard. 16. Shakya Muni and the Prodigal Son. 17. The Parable of the Monk and the Stupid Woman. 18. 'Each Smile a Hymn, each Kindly Word a Prayer.' 19. The World is in the Making. 20. The Progress and Hope of Life. 21. The Betterment of Life. 22. The Buddha of Mercy. CHAPTER VI ENLIGHTENMENT 1. Enlightenment is beyond Description and Analysis. 2. Enlightenment implies an Insight into the Nature of Self. 3. The Irrationality of the Belief of Immortality. 4. The Examination of the Notion of Self. 5. Nature is the Mother of All Things. 6. Real Self. 7. The Awakening of the Innermost Wisdom. 8. Zen is not Nihilistic. 9. Zen and Idealism. 10. Idealism is a Potent Medicine for Self-created Mental Disease. 11. Idealistic Scepticism concerning Objective Reality. 12. Idealistic Scepticism concerning Religion and Morality. 13. An Illusion concerning Appearance and Reality. 14. Where does the Root of the Illusion Lie? 15. Thing-in-Itself means Thing-Knowerless. 16. The Four Alternatives and the Five Categories. 17. Personalism of B. P. Bowne. 18. All the Worlds in Ten Directions are Buddha's Holy Land. CHAPTER VII LIFE 1. Epicureanism and Life. 2. The Errors of Philosophical Pessimists and Religious Optimists. 3. The Law of Balance. 4. Life Consists in Conflict. 5. The Mystery of Life. 6. Nature Favours Nothing in Particular. 7. The Law of Balance in Life. 8. The Application of the Law of Causation to Morals. 9. Retribution in the Past, the Present, and the Future Life. 10. The Eternal Life as taught by Professor Münsterberg. 11. Life in the Concrete. 12. Difficulties are no Match for the Optimist. 13. Do Thy Best and Leave the Rest to Providence. CHAPTER VIII THE TRAINING OF THE MIND AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATION 1. The Method of Instruction Adopted by Zen Masters. 2. The First Step in the Mental Training. 3. The Next Step in the Mental Training. 4. The Third Step in the Mental Training. To be the lord of mind is more essential to Enlightenment, which, in a sense, is the clearing away of illusions, the putting out of mean desires and passions, and the awakening of the innermost wisdom. He alone can attain to real happiness who has perfect control over his passions tending to disturb the equilibrium of his mind. Such passions as anger, hatred, jealousy, sorrow, worry, grudge, and fear always untune one's mood and break the harmony of one's mind. They poison one's body, not in a figurative, but in a literal sense of the word. Obnoxious passions once aroused never fail to bring about the physiological change in the nerves, in the organs, and eventually in the whole constitution, and 5. Zazen, or the Sitting in Meditation. 6. The Breathing Exercise of the Yogi. 7. Calmness of Mind. 8. Zazen and the Forgetting of Self. 9. Zen and Supernatural Power. 10. True Dhyana. To sit in Meditation is not the only method of practising Zazen. "We practise Dhyana in sitting, in standing, and in walking," says one of the Japanese Zenists. Lin Tsi (Rin-Zai) also says: " To concentrate one's mind, or to dislike noisy places, and seek only for stillness, is the characteristic of heterodox Dhyana." It is easy to keep self-possession in a place of tranquillity, yet it is by no means easy to keep mind undisturbed amid the bivouac of actual life. It is true Dhyana that makes our mind sunny while the storms of strife rage around us. It is true Dhyana that secures the harmony of heart, while the surges of struggle toss us violently. It is true Dhyana that makes us bloom and smile, while the winter of life covets us with frost and snow. 11. Let Go of your Idle Thoughts. 12. 'The Five Ranks of Merit.' 13. 'The Ten Pictures of the Cowherd.' 14. Zen and Nirvana. 15. Nature and her Lesson. 16. The Beatitude of Zen. APPENDIX ORIGIN OF MAN PREFACE ORIGIN OF MAN INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I REFUTATION OF DELUSIVE AND PREJUDICED (DOCTRINE) CHAPTER II REFUTATION OF INCOMPLETE AND SUPERFICIAL (DOCTRINE)' 1. The Doctrine for Men and Devas. 2. The Doctrine of the Hinayanists. 3. The Mahayana Doctrine of Dharmalaksana. 4. Mahayana Doctrine of the Nihilists. This doctrine disproves (both) the Mahayana and the Hinayana doctrines above mentioned that adhere to Dharma-laksana, and suggestively discloses the truth of Transcendental Reality which is to be treated later. Let me state, first of all, what it would say in the refutation of Dharma-laksana. CHAPTER III THE DIRECT EXPLANATION OF THE REAL ORIGIN 5. The Ekayana Doctrine that Teaches the Ultimate Reality. CHAPTER IV RECONCILIATION OF THE TEMPORARY WITH THE REAL DOCTRINE Credits Printed source The Religion of the Samurai - A study of Zen Philosophy and discipline in China and Japan By Kaiten Nukariya, Professor of Kei-O-Gi-Jiku University and of So-To-Shu Buddhist College, Tokyo, [1913] Source of the electronic transcription Internet ETML tagging IntraText editorial staff Publication details Some footnotes and references are missing.

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