Sublime

Non-dharmas are things like horns on a rabbit, an ass, a camel, or a horse or the offspring of a barren woman. Such things lack any form or appearance and cannot be perceived. They are merely names talked about according to convention. They are not things that can be grasped, like a clay pot. And just as what is discriminated as existing should be

Zen Buddhism is a way and a view of life which does not belong to any of the formal categories of modern Western thought. It is not religion or philosophy; it is not a psychology or a type of science. It is an example of what is known in India and China as a “way of liberation,” and is similar in this respect to Taoism, Vedanta, and Yoga. As will s

If the medicine is good, the disease will be cured. It is not necessary to know who prepared it, or where it came from.

In the same way Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Moslem. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in men’s minds.

This Middle Path is generally referred to as the Noble Eightfold Path (Arija-Aṭṭhaṇgika-Magga), because it is composed of eight categories or divisions: namely, 1. Right Understanding (Sammā diṭṭhi), 2. Right Thought (Sammā saṇkappa), 3. Right Speech (Sammāv ācā), 4. Right Action (Sammākammanta), 5. Right Livelihood (Sammā ājīva), 6. Right Effort (

Section XVII. This section makes my head hurt. The Buddha contrasts the ultimate reality of personal realization with the “first causes” of other paths and thankfully moves on.

Buddhism is a method of liberation which has emerged as a way of life in Asia, but which is not so closely tied to the different cultures of Asia as such other philosophies or religions as Hinduism or Confucianism or Shinto.