If you want to secure Dhyana, let go of your anxieties and failures in the past; let past be past; cast aside enemity, shame, and trouble, never admit them into your brain; let pass the imagination and anticipation of future hardships and sufferings; let go of all your annoyances, vexations, doubts, melancholies, that impede your [...]
To be the lord of mind is more important to enlightenment, which, in a sense, is the clearing away of illusions, the putting out of mean desires and
manias, and the waking of the innermost wisdom. He alone can attain to real felicity who has perfect control over his passions tending to disturb the equilibrium of [...]
EShun, a student and sister of Ryoan, a famous Japanese master, burned herself sedately sitting crosslegged on a pile of firewood which taken
her. She lit upon to the complete mastery of her body. Socrates’ self was never poisoned, even if his person was destroyed by the spitefulness he took. Abraham Lincoln himself stood uninjured, even [...]
In the following place we have to strive to be the master of our bodies. Withmost of the unenlightened, body holds absolute control over Ego. Every saying of the former has to be reliably obeyed by the latter. Even if Self repels against the tyranny of body, it is easily down under the
brutal hoofs of [...]
Some of the old Zen masters are said to have gained ultimate enlightenment after the exercise of meditation for seven days, some for one day, some for a score of years, and some for a few months. The exercise of meditation, however, is not merely a means for enlightenment, as is usually
said, but also it [...]
