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Musō Sōseki Summary
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MUSŌ SŌSEKI (1275–1351), a monk of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism in medieval Japan. Born into an aristocratic family, he entered the religious life at an early age, rose to become head of some of Japan's most influential...
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Zen : Buddhist Terms
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A Chinese and Japanese school of Bsm. which has been described as the revolt of the Chinese mind against the intellectual Buddhism of India. It evolved from the teaching of Bodhidharma, the Twenty-eighth Patriarch of Bsm., who came to China in A.D....
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Ch’An : Buddhist Terms
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From the Sk. Dhyāna. In Jap., Zen. The Zen Bsm. of Japan derives from the Ch’an Bsm. of China, founded in the sixth century by Bodhidharma and formed into a School by Hung-jen, Hui-neng and their followers in the eighth century. Ch’an...
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Za-Zen : Buddhist Terms
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‘Zen-sitting.’ Zen meditation, usually in the Zen-dō (q.v.). The correct posture is the Dhyānāsana (see Āsana), loosely known as the Lotus posture, in which the sole of each foot is upturned on the opposite thigh. The...
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Zen Information
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Zen (禪 or 禅) is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism notable for its emphasis on practice and experiential wisdom—particularly as realized in the form of meditation known as zazen—in the attainment of awakening. As such, it de-emphasizes both...
 


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Zen Quotes
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The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves. The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. •Ma-Tsu You cannot describe...


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The Independent - London
That was Zen. This is now
06/20/1995: 1,644 words, approx. 6 pages
Michael Dibdin is in self-imposed exile. Again. The crime writer best known for his creation Aurelio Zen, the fatalistic Italian policeman for whom "lugubrious" is too cheerful a description, has spent large chunks of his life as an expat. But in 1984, aged 37,...
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The Washington Post
The Zen of Raking
11/06/2001: 452 words, approx. 2 pages
Stunted imaginations view it as a chore. But engage the senses and the repetitive motion of raking can be a mood lifter -- a mind-and- body exercise that involves more than the slow, laborious movement of decaying plant matter from Spot A to Spot...
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Vibe.com
Cover Story: The Zen of Eminem
1/28/2005: 2,959 words, approx. 10 pages
As Chris Rock had it, something sure has changed in America when the best golfer is black and the best rapper, white. Rock's choice of words is remarkable: not richest, not most famous, but best. Because there can be no doubt about it anymore, and...
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AP News
Hong Kong eyes tougher Vatican for China
1/26/2007: 666 words, approx. 2 pages
Hong Kong's outspoken cardinal said it was time for the Vatican to take a more uncompromising line toward the Chinese government, which broke with the church more than a half-century ago and has sought to maintain control of Catholic institutions.The Vatican has long indicated that...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
Zen Buddhist Philosophy in Japanese Death Poems
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The tradition of writing jisei, or "death poetry," when on the verge of death is a perplexing aspect of the Japanese people's calm acceptance of death as a part of life. A thorough understanding of Japanese death poems provides an explicitly accurate depiction of the Japanese attitude towards death and the Zen Buddhist philosophy that helped form this attitude. This analysis draws upon Yoel Hoffmann's book Japanese Death Poems.
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Zen and the Beat Way
480 words, approx. 2 pages
Reviews the book Zen and the Beat Way, by Alan Watts. Questions if it is a serious examination of Zen, the Beat Way or anything in particular.


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