D.T.Suzuki

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

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  • Bola Nagihas quoted4 years ago
    Ummon, founder of the Ummon School of Zen, comments on this by saying, “If I had been with him at the moment of his uttering this, I would surely have struck him dead with one blow and thrown the corpse into the maw of a hungry dog”.
  • Bola Nagihas quoted4 years ago
    Zen is religion, in the sense that Christianity and Mohammedanism is, would be a mistake
  • Bola Nagihas quoted4 years ago
    Zen believes in its inner purity and goodness
  • Bola Nagihas quoted4 years ago
    contradiction of the common law of moral life
  • Bola Nagihas quoted4 years ago
    the very denial involves something not denied
  • Bola Nagihas quoted4 years ago
    but this does not mean that Zen denies the existence of God; neither
  • Bola Nagihas quoted4 years ago
    for Zen has no God to worship, no ceremonial rites to observe, no future abode to which the dead are destined
  • Bola Nagihas quoted4 years ago
    sacred literature as rubbish
  • Bola Nagihas quoted4 years ago
    Zen has no philosophy, that it denies all doctrinal authority
  • Bola Nagihas quoted4 years ago
    nihilism is self-destructive,
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