From ancient time, all traditions have set up “paths” of spiritual development. The Zen Oxherding Pictures show the passage from initiation – the search for self – to a maturation of insight, …
The Middle Way or Middle Path (Pali: Majjhimapatipada; Sanskrit: Madhyamapratipad) is the term that Gautama Buddha used to describe the character of the Noble Eightfold Path – as The …
*Excerpt from the book Opening the Hand of Thought by Kosho Uchiyama Satori and Zen seem to have such an intimate relationship in Japan that when somebody says “satori,” everybody immediately associates …
Gutei (Chinese: Chu-chih) lived around the ninth century, his dates of birth and death are not available, since his real name is not known. Chu-chih (Gutei) was just a nickname. In the …
ANATTĀ – THE NOT-SELF CHARACTERISTIC Buddha said: “Physical form, monks, is transient, and whatever is transient is unsatisfactory; whatever is unsatisfactory, that is anattā (non-self); and whatever is non-self, …
Camellia-petal fell in silent dawn . . . spilling A water-jewel Haiku is a contemplative, unrhymed Japanese poem that attempts to chronicle the essence of a moment in which …
Ten Qualities Leading to Buddhahood. Pāramitā (Sanskrit, Pali) or pāramī (Pāli) is “perfection” or “completeness”. While technically pāramī and pāramitā are both Pāli terms, Pali literature makes far greater …
Case Seizei said to Sozan, “Seizei is utterly destitute. Will you give him support?” Sozan called out, “Seizei!” Seizei responded, “Yes, sir!” Sozan said, “You have finished three cups …
The Case Joshu went to a hermit’s cottage and asked, “Is the master in? Is the master in?” The hermit raised his fist. Joshu said, “The water is too …
Taisen Deshimaru (Yasuo was his given first name) was born in on November 20, 1914, near the town of Saga, on the isle of Kyushu. His mother was a …
