{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/rosa/rosa01.htm","path":"bud/rosa/rosa01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/rosa/rosa01.htm","text":"The Religion of the Samurai, by Kaiten Nukariya, [1913]\nINTRODUCTION\n(1) The Southern and Northern Schools of Buddhism\n (2) The Development and Differentiation of Buddhism\n (3) The Object of this Book is the Explaining of the Mahayanistic View of Life and the World\n (4) Zen holds a Unique Position among the Established Religions of the World\n (5) The Historical Antiquity of Zen\n (6) The Denial of Scriptural Authority by Zen\n (7) The Practisers of Zen hold the Buddha as their Predecessor, whose Spiritual Level they Aim to Attain\n (8) The Iconoclastic Attitude of Zen\n (9) Zen Activity\n (10) The Physical and Mental Training\n (11) The Historical Importance\nCHAPTER I\nHISTORY OF ZEN IN CHINA\n1. The Origin of Zen in India\n 2. The Introduction of Zen into China by Bodhidharma\n 3. Bodhidharma and the Emperor Wu\n 4. Bodhidharma and his Successor, the Second Patriarch\n 5. Bodhidharma's Disciples and the Transmission of the Law\n 6. The Second and the Third Patriarchs\n 7. The Fourth Patriarch and the Emperor Tai Tsung\n 8. The Fifth and the Sixth Patriarchs\n 9. The Spiritual Attainment of the Sixth Patriarch\n 10. The Flight of the Sixth Patriarch\n 11. The Development of the Southern and the Northern School of Zen\n 12. The Missionary Activity of the Sixth Patriarch\n 13. The Disciples under the Sixth Patriarch\n 14. Three Important Elements of Zen\n 15. Decline of Zen\nCHAPTER II\nHISTORY OF ZEN IN JAPAN\n1. The Establishment of the Rin Zai School of Zen in Japan\n 2. The Introduction of the So To School of Zen\n 3. The Characteristics of Do-gen, the Founder of the Japanese So To Sect\n 4. The Social State of Japan when Zen was Established by Ei-sai and Do-gen\n 5. The Resemblance of the Zen Monk to the Samurai\n 6. The Honest Poverty of the Zen Monk and the Samurai\n 7. The Manliness of the Zen Monk and the Samurai\n 8. The Courage and Composure of Mind of the Zen Monk and the Samurai\n 9. Zen and the Regent Generals of the Ho-jo Period\n 10. Zen after the Downfall of the Ho-jo Regency\n 11. Zen in the Dark Age\n 12. Zen under the Toku-gawa Shogunate\n 13. Zen after the Restoration\nCHAPTER III\nTHE UNIVERSE IS THE SCRIPTURE OF ZEN\n1. Scripture is no More than Waste Paper\n 2. No Need of the Scriptural Authority for Zen\n 3. The Usual Explanation of the Canon\n 4. Sutras used by the Zen Masters\n 5. A Sutra Equal in Size to the Whole World 68\n 6. Great Men and Nature\n 7. The Absolute and Reality are but an Abstraction\n 8. The Sermon of the Inanimate\nCHAPTER IV\nBUDDHA, THE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT\n1. The Ancient Buddhist Pantheon\n 2. Zen is Iconoclastic\n 3. Buddha is Unnamable\n 4. Buddha, the Universal Life\n 5. Life and Change\n 6. The Pessimistic View of Ancient Hindus\n 7. Hinayanism and its Doctrine\n 8. Change as seen by Zen\n 9. Life and Change\n 10. Life, Change, and Hope\n 11. Everything is Living according to Zen\n 12. The Creative Force of Nature and Humanity\n 13. Universal Life is Universal Spirit\n 14. Poetical Intuition and Zen\n 15. Enlightened Consciousness\n 16. Buddha Dwelling in the Individual Mind\n Enlightened Consciousness is not an Intellectual Insight\n 18. Our Conception of Buddha is not Final\n 19. How to Worship Buddha\nCHAPTER V\nTHE NATURE OF MAN\n1. Man is Good-natured according to Mencius\n 2. Man is Bad-natured according to Si\u00fcn Tsz\n 3. Man is both Good-natured and Bad-natured according to Yan Hiung\n 4. Man is neither Good-natured nor Bad-natured according to Su Shih\n 5. There is no Mortal who is Purely Moral\n 6. There is no Mortal who is Non-moral or Purely Immoral\n 7. Where, then, does the Error Lie?\n 8, Man is not Good-natured nor Bad-natured, but Buddha natured\n 9. The Parable of the Robber Kih\n 10. Wang Yang Ming and a Thief\n 11. The Bad are the Good in the Egg\n 12. The Great Person and the Small Person\n 13. The Theory of Buddha-Nature adequately explains the Ethical States of Man\n 14. Buddha-Nature is the Common Source of Morals\n 15. The Parable of a Drunkard\n 16. Shakya Muni and the Prodigal Son\n 17. The Parable of the Monk and the Stupid Woman\n 18. 'Each Smile a Hymn, each Kindly Word a Prayer'\n 19. The World is in the Making\n 20. The Progress and Hope of Life\n 21. The Betterment of Life\n 22. The Buddha of Mercy\nCHAPTER VI\nENLIGHTENMENT\n1. Enlightenment is beyond Description and Analysis\n 2. Enlightenment Implies an Insight into the Nature of Self\n 3. The Irrationality of the Belief of Immortality\n 4. The Examination of the Notion of Self\n 5. Nature is the Mother of All Things\n 6. Real Self\n 7. The Awakening of the Innermost Wisdom\n 8. Zen is not Nihilistic\n 9. Zen and Idealism\n 10. Idealism is a Potent Medicine for Self -Created Mental Disease\n 11. Idealistic Scepticism concerning Objective Reality\n 12. Idealistic Scepticism concerning Religion and Morality\n 13. An Illusion concerning Appearance and Reality\n 14. Where does the Root of the Illusion Lie?\n 15. Thing-in-Itself means Thing-Knowerless\n 16. The Four Alternatives and the Five Categories\n 17. Personalism of B. P. Bowne\n 18. All the Worlds in Ten Directions are Buddha's Holy Land\nCHAPTER VII\nLIFE\n1. Epicureanism and Life\n 2. The Errors of Philosophical Pessimists and Religious Optimists\n 3. The Law of Balance\n 4. Life Consists in Conflict\n 5. The Mystery of Life\n 6. Nature favours Nothing in Particular\n 7. The Law of Balance in Life\n 8. The Application of the Law of Causation to Morals\n 9. The Retribution in the Past, the Present, and the Future Life\n 10. The Eternal Life as taught by Professor M\u00fcnsterberg\n 11. Life in the Concrete\n 12. Difficulties are no Match for an Optimist \n 13. Do Thy Best and Leave the Rest to Providence \nCHAPTER VIII\nTHE TRAINING OF THE MIND AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATION\n1. The Method of Instruction adopted by Zen Masters\n 2. The First Step in the Mental Training\n 3. The Next Step in the Mental Training\n 4. The Third Step in the Mental Training\n 5. Zazen, or the Sitting in Meditation\n 6. The Breathing Exercise of the Yogi\n 7. Calmness of Mind\n 8. Zazen and the Forgetting of Self\n 9. Zen and Supernatural Power\n 10. True Dhyana\n 11. Let Go of Your Idle Thoughts\n 12. 'The Five Ranks of Merit'\n 13. 'The Ten Pictures of the Cowherd'\n 14. Zen and Nirvana\n 15. Nature and Her Lesson\n 16. The Beatitude of Zen\nAPPENDIX\nORIGIN OF MAN\nPREFACE\nREFUTATION OF DELUSIVE AND PREJUDICED (DOCTRINE)\nREFUTATION OF INCOMPLETE AND SUPERFICIAL (DOCTRINE)\n1. The Doctrine for Men and Devas\n 2. The Doctrine of the Hinayanists\n 3. The Mahayana Doctrine of Dharmalaksana\n 4. Mahayana Doctrine of the Nihilists\nTHE DIRECT EXPLANATION OF THE REAL ORIGIN\n5. The Ekayana Doctrine that Teaches the Ultimate Reality\nRECONCILIATION OF THE TEMPORARY WITH THE REAL DOCTRINE","title":"The Religion of the Samurai: Contents","type":"page"}