This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 2017 | Flowers 44. Who shall overcome this earth, and the world of Yama( the lord of the departed), and the world of the gods? |
| 2017 | He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth? |
| 2017 | He whom no desire with its snares and poisons can lead astray, by what track can you lead him, the Awakened, the Omniscient, the trackless? |
| 2017 | Him I call indeed a Brahmana who has no interests, and when he has understood( the truth), does not say How, how? |
| 2017 | How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning? |
| 2017 | Is there in this world any man so restrained by humility that he does not mind reproof, as a well- trained horse the whip? |
| 2017 | Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord? |
| 2017 | Those white bones, like gourds thrown away in the autumn, what pleasure is there in looking at them? |
| 2017 | Who shall find out the plainly shown path of virtue, as a clever man finds out the( right) flower? |
| 2017 | Why do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by darkness? |
| 2017 | what of the raiment of goat- skins? |
| 18223 | 144 Was Poe Immoral? |
| 18223 | 171 Has Life Any Meaning? |
| 18223 | How can a system requiring the infliction of misery on other beings be called a religious system?... |
| 18223 | How should I be capable of leaving thee in thy calamity?... |
| 18223 | I then will ask you, if a man, in worshipping... sacrifices a sheep, and so does well, wherefore not his child,... and so do better? |
| 18223 | Is She of small account? |
| 18223 | Is she a child? |
| 18223 | Is she honorable? |
| 18223 | Is she old? |
| 18223 | Shall we in worshipping slay that which hath life? |
| 18223 | What is a true gift? |
| 18223 | What is goodness? |
| 18223 | What is it to you... whether another is guilty or guiltless? |
| 18223 | What man is there who would be remiss in doing good to mankind? |
| 18223 | Wherein does religion consist? |
| 18223 | Who is a( true) spiritual teacher? |
| 18223 | Why should there be such sorrowful contention? |
| 18223 | Why should we cling to this perishable body? |
| 8390 | But what say the holy books? 8390 But you, yourself, are you not one of the holy ones?" |
| 8390 | Can you express this experience in words? |
| 8390 | Do you believe in the salvation of all beings? |
| 8390 | Does anything exist? |
| 8390 | Does faith save such a man? |
| 8390 | Is not this entirely negative? |
| 8390 | Well, about what do you think? |
| 8390 | What energizing power does Buddhism provide? |
| 8390 | What happens when you meditate or pray? |
| 8390 | What hope has such a man? |
| 8390 | What is the driving power in all this? |
| 8390 | What_ work_ have you done? |
| 8390 | Who are you? |
| 8390 | But where do the fiery chariots come from? |
| 8390 | Do they not promise rewards for such deeds?" |
| 8390 | Do you believe in the existence of_ purgatory?_ What sufferings will those endure who do not live a virtuous life? |
| 8390 | Do you believe in the existence of_ purgatory?_ What sufferings will those endure who do not live a virtuous life? |
| 8390 | Do you believe in the reality of the Western Paradise? |
| 8390 | Has not Christianity a message of balm and peace for these sons of the East who are so sensitive to the touch of the eternal and sublime? |
| 8390 | He was asked,"Would you adapt some of the symbols of the Chinese religions?" |
| 8390 | Heaven and Purgatory_"Do heaven and purgatory exist?" |
| 8390 | How can one enter it? |
| 8390 | How can they reach the Pure Land? |
| 8390 | How is the middle and the small merit accumulated? |
| 8390 | If its premises are granted, the conclusion is inevitable:"If the fiery chariots are seal, why does not man see them? |
| 8390 | If they are false, how is it that man feels the pain? |
| 8390 | In what do you trust? |
| 8390 | Is not Buddhism more democratic than Christianity, because it holds out the possibility of Buddhahood to all beings? |
| 8390 | Is not Buddhism more inclusive, because it provides for the salvation of all beings? |
| 8390 | Is not Shang Ti the tribal god of the Jews? |
| 8390 | Is not real religion a matter of the heart?" |
| 8390 | Is not your Shang Ti( name for God used in China) a being lower than Buddha and just a little higher than a Bodhisattva? |
| 8390 | Is the reality of religion for you also an inward experience of the heart?" |
| 8390 | Mrs. Chang accordingly went to Yama and said,"During life we honored Buddha and so why should we become animals after death?" |
| 8390 | Nirvâna__"Do you know of any one who attained Nirvâna? |
| 8390 | People with the face of a man and the heart of a beast, should they not be punished?" |
| 8390 | Relation to Confucian Ideals_ Why have not these ideals exercised a larger influence in China? |
| 8390 | Salvation for the Common Man_"What can Buddhism do for the lowest class?" |
| 8390 | Salvation for the Highest Class_"And the third class?" |
| 8390 | Salvation of the Second Class_"How do those of the second class attain salvation?" |
| 8390 | Sin_"Does sin exist?" |
| 8390 | The Place of Faith_"Can any man enter the western paradise of Amitâbha?" |
| 8390 | The Threefold Classification of Men Under Buddhism_"What does Buddhism do for men?" |
| 8390 | Then turning to a friend of mine the speaker said:"What have you done in Buddhism?" |
| 8390 | There being three kinds of merit, by what method is the great merit accumulated? |
| 8390 | To be branded without inward faith would be an insult to your religion as well as treachery to my own, would it not? |
| 8390 | What are the fruits of these proportions of merit and what are they like? |
| 8390 | What work of meditation do you perform? |
| 8390 | Why worry? |
| 8390 | Yama said,"What use is it to honor Buddha? |
| 36039 | A lie, is it? 36039 All very well,"grumbled the Tortoise,"but how am I to get there? |
| 36039 | And how did you manage that? |
| 36039 | And what do you want? |
| 36039 | And who ever heard, my lord, of a rat eating a plough? |
| 36039 | And why do you face the sun? |
| 36039 | And why do you keep your mouth open? |
| 36039 | Are you such a fool as to think that any creature keeps its heart in a tree? 36039 But how can I get across a wide river like this?" |
| 36039 | But, sir, if you eat me now, you''ll be hungry to- morrow, wo n''t you? |
| 36039 | Ca n''t you see I''m waiting? |
| 36039 | Ca n''t you see him, lying up in the sky? |
| 36039 | Can you give me a night''s shelter? |
| 36039 | Crane dear,said he,"are n''t you going to put me in the lake?" |
| 36039 | Do you see that cluster of round things up in the tree there, on the further bank? 36039 Do you think I ca n''t catch you anywhere?" |
| 36039 | How did you get here? |
| 36039 | How on earth did you do that? |
| 36039 | I see you have eaten all the fruit on these trees; but why do n''t you try the trees on the other side of the river? 36039 Now then, who''s next?" |
| 36039 | Now, do we look like robbers? |
| 36039 | Oh dear, oh dear, what in the world are you doing? 36039 Oh dear, oh dear,"he said,"what is to be done? |
| 36039 | Oh,said he,"where is your heart, then?" |
| 36039 | Up in the air? |
| 36039 | Was the Great Yellow King so kind to you as all that? 36039 Well, what are we to do?" |
| 36039 | Well, what is it then? |
| 36039 | Well, what is it? |
| 36039 | What are you doing, clumsy? |
| 36039 | What do you mean by that? |
| 36039 | What do you mean? |
| 36039 | What do you mean? |
| 36039 | What do you say to selling me that diamond? |
| 36039 | What does he want? |
| 36039 | What is that? |
| 36039 | What is the matter? |
| 36039 | What is this? |
| 36039 | What is your complaint? |
| 36039 | What is your name, sir? |
| 36039 | What on earth do you mean? |
| 36039 | What proverb do you mean? |
| 36039 | What will you give me for it? |
| 36039 | What will you give me for it? |
| 36039 | What''s that, Quailie? |
| 36039 | What''s the matter? |
| 36039 | Where is he? |
| 36039 | Where is my boy? |
| 36039 | Where is the Lion you have killed? |
| 36039 | Who ever heard of a hawk carrying off a boy? |
| 36039 | Who is this? |
| 36039 | Why do you stand on one leg? |
| 36039 | Why not? 36039 Why, how are you going to carry me?" |
| 36039 | Why, what on earth is the matter? |
| 36039 | Why, wife,said he,"what are you crying about?" |
| 36039 | Your boy? 36039 And how rich is he? |
| 36039 | Are n''t you afraid? |
| 36039 | As he turned the diamond about in his hand and saw it flash, he suddenly thought to himself,"What if the pig should wake? |
| 36039 | But for a long time Tweaky would say nothing but the same words over and over again,"Where''s your feathers, Tell- tale tit?" |
| 36039 | But who would take care of the park and garden? |
| 36039 | He suggested that perhaps one of them was a better King than the other; what were his master''s virtues, would the other coachman kindly tell him? |
| 36039 | How could a pig fly through the air? |
| 36039 | How old is your King?" |
| 36039 | If I were only up in that tree, now----"But what on earth had happened? |
| 36039 | Kill a Lion? |
| 36039 | My heart, I think you said? |
| 36039 | Still, who knows what they say behind my back? |
| 36039 | Suppose I keep a holy fast to- day? |
| 36039 | Suppose I try to see?" |
| 36039 | The Tortoise on hearing this was so angry that he forgot all about his danger, and opened his mouth to cry out:"What''s that to you? |
| 36039 | The horse fluttered down, and hovered just above them, crying out, in a human voice:"Who wants to go home? |
| 36039 | Then her smile changed, and she sneered,"So Beaky is going to tell, is he? |
| 36039 | They said"How do you do?" |
| 36039 | This was very generous, was n''t it? |
| 36039 | Was not that a mean trick to serve a friend? |
| 36039 | What can I do for you? |
| 36039 | What could poor Quailie do now? |
| 36039 | What was he to do? |
| 36039 | What were they to do? |
| 36039 | Where''s your feathers, Tell- tale tit? |
| 36039 | Where''s your feathers, Tell- tale tit?" |
| 36039 | Where''s your feathers, Tell- tale tit?" |
| 36039 | Why did he keep on trying to catch them, then? |
| 36039 | Why did not the Governor come to see me instead, as usual-- aw?" |
| 36039 | Will you give me a kiss?" |
| 36039 | Will you marry me? |
| 36039 | Will you water my garden while I am away?" |
| 36039 | Wisdom has the best of it: Where''s your feathers, Tell- tale tit?" |
| 36039 | and worships the sun-- eh? |
| 36039 | do you see that fellow? |
| 36039 | do you suppose I want bruised old hacks like that? |
| 36039 | said the Crane,"do you suppose I was born to carry crabs about? |
| 36039 | who wants to go home? |
| 36039 | who wants to go home?" |
| 34325 | 18 As he described this koan in a letter to a laywoman:_ What is the Sound of the Single Hand? 34325 26 When a monk asked him,"What is the real significance of Bodhidharma''s coming from the west?" |
| 34325 | 6 Yet does it really matter whether the legend is meticulously faithful to the facts? 34325 And how,"shot back Ma- tsu,"do you go about tending it?" |
| 34325 | Are you tired? |
| 34325 | Are you your own master or not? |
| 34325 | Barring conscious intention,the disciple continued to inquire,"how can we attain to a knowledge of the Tao?" |
| 34325 | But it is impossible to do so? |
| 34325 | Does a dog have Buddha nature[ i.e., is a dog capable of being enlightened]? |
| 34325 | Have you finished your rice gruel? |
| 34325 | Have you seen the standing image of Buddha? |
| 34325 | How can I not be awed by a word that astounds people? |
| 34325 | How can you go where it is changeless? |
| 34325 | How do you see your real self subjectively? |
| 34325 | How do you teach a man who does not uphold either of these? |
| 34325 | I do n''t suppose your sect has miracles the way our sect does? |
| 34325 | If they neither read sutras nor learn meditation, what in the world are they doing? |
| 34325 | Is n''t it a clay statue that sits in the shrine? |
| 34325 | Is there any way to approach it? |
| 34325 | Since I have brought nothing with me, what can I lay down? |
| 34325 | Tell me,began Shih- t''ou,"how have you practiced Ch''an after coming here to this mountain?" |
| 34325 | The monk again questioned,If you met a man free from attachment to all things, what would you tell him?" |
| 34325 | Then do they learn meditation? |
| 34325 | Then who is the Buddha? |
| 34325 | Then why should you conduct the memorial service for him, if he did not instruct you? |
| 34325 | Well,spat out the_ yamabushi_,"How about you, Zen monk? |
| 34325 | What are you doing? |
| 34325 | What is that which is called foot travel? |
| 34325 | What is the meaning[ of your asking] at this moment? |
| 34325 | What is the most important principle of Buddhism? |
| 34325 | What? |
| 34325 | When there is neither going out nor remaining in, what way would you say this was? |
| 34325 | Where is my abiding place? |
| 34325 | Where is this master of yours? |
| 34325 | Where is your hoe? |
| 34325 | Who lost by a fluke? |
| 34325 | Why do n''t you speak of it? |
| 34325 | ''From whence come all the buddhas?'' |
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| 34325 | A monk asked,"What about the cardinal principle of the Buddha- dharma?" |
| 34325 | A monk asked,"What is my own self?" |
| 34325 | A perfumed breeze across my pillow; Am I asleep or awake? |
| 34325 | According to the story, P''ang asked Ma- tsu,"What kind of man is he who has no companion among all things?" |
| 34325 | After a short silence, he asked the Prime Minister,"Do you understand?" |
| 34325 | After a time Ma- tsu''s curiosity bested him and he inquired,"Why are you rubbing that brick on a stone?" |
| 34325 | After doing so, the supervisor asked,"Master, how can you let such a madman insult you like that?" |
| 34325 | And what have I got inside my house? |
| 34325 | And why have the insights of obscure rural teachers from the Chinese and Japanese Middle Ages remained pertinent to much of modern life in the West? |
| 34325 | Another anecdote recounts a similar incident:_ A monk said to Nan- ch''uan,"There is a jewel in the sky; how can we get hold of it?" |
| 34325 | Another monk asked:"What about the cardinal principle of the Buddha- dharma?" |
| 34325 | Another version of the story says Hui- k''o greeted Seng- ts''an with the words,"You are suffering from leprosy; why should you want to see me?" |
| 34325 | As a typical example, there is the story of a monk coming to him to ask,"What was the purpose of Bodhidharma''s coming from the West?" |
| 34325 | At that reckoning what would he give to return to the simple life, where there was poverty but also freedom? |
| 34325 | At this the Master again asked,"What way do you mean?" |
| 34325 | But how did Ma- tsu handle this question when it was presented to him? |
| 34325 | But how exactly can we say that all things are one? |
| 34325 | But if it''s miracles, why do n''t you show the sort of miracles that your people have?" |
| 34325 | But just what was this mind that was being transmitted? |
| 34325 | But the question those who relate this story never resolve is: Which of the four shouts was the shout he used on the student? |
| 34325 | But then, how do you test the ultimate realization that there is nothing to realize other than what you knew all along? |
| 34325 | But what about the Ch''an outside the monasteries? |
| 34325 | But what about the Rinzai Zen teaching that enlightenment is sudden and can not be induced by gradual practice? |
| 34325 | But what is the finger?" |
| 34325 | But what is the moon?" |
| 34325 | But what is this state called"no- thought"? |
| 34325 | But why would we want to do this in the first place? |
| 34325 | Chao- chou answered,_"Mu_[ a word whose strict meaning is"nothingness"]._"4 Quick, what does it mean? |
| 34325 | Chao- chou got up and went away.25 A monk asked,"When a beggar comes, what shall we give him?" |
| 34325 | Considering that you can use this treasure freely, why then do you persist in wandering abroad?" |
| 34325 | Conversely, if the Buddha nature must be acquired, how can it be inherent in all things, as was taught? |
| 34325 | Could it be that the fruit had been ready to fall from the tree, with this just the shake needed? |
| 34325 | Could it be that this was the moment he had been hoping for? |
| 34325 | Could it be that with this incident we have finally captured a wordless transmission? |
| 34325 | Creel, Herrlee G. What Is Taoism? |
| 34325 | Did I not open your eye after taking pains so much on my part?" |
| 34325 | Did Ma- tsu''s influence extend to the lay community? |
| 34325 | Did all of them practise_ Zazen_? |
| 34325 | Do you possess enough discernment to distinguish the guest from the host[ i.e., the unenlightened from the enlightened]? |
| 34325 | Does he forget about the money because all eyes are upon him? |
| 34325 | For example, if you are meditating and your mind wants to meander and look for something to dwell on, what should you do? |
| 34325 | For example, there is a story that a local governor asked Ma- tsu,"Master, should I eat meat and drink wine?" |
| 34325 | From day to day what is there to trouble me? |
| 34325 | He said,"Leaving alone the question of''different,''let me ask you what is''species''anyway?" |
| 34325 | He struck up a conversation with the master there, who suddenly asked him:_"Where are you going, sir?" |
| 34325 | He then demanded of the Master,"Besides saying that one line is long and the other three are short, what else could you say?" |
| 34325 | He was in a temple in Niigata prefecture, meditating on the"Mu"koan( Q:"Does a dog have Buddha- nature? |
| 34325 | Here in my school, to have no thoughts is sitting, and to see one''s original nature is_ dhyana_( Ch''an).15 What happened to Indian meditation? |
| 34325 | His very first question to the older master reportedly was"How did the early Ch''an masters guide their followers?" |
| 34325 | How are you going to deal with my miracle?" |
| 34325 | How did Zen finally emerge, after all the centuries and the convolutions? |
| 34325 | How do you expect to become enlightened?" |
| 34325 | How do you really know I''ve achieved enlightenment?" |
| 34325 | How do you understand this?" |
| 34325 | How is this done? |
| 34325 | How much of the story of Bodhidharma is legend? |
| 34325 | How so? |
| 34325 | How then can it be made the subject of discussion? |
| 34325 | How then could he be made the founder of the Ch''an schools blooming all over China? |
| 34325 | How will you govern the people?" |
| 34325 | However, Lin- chi seized the tool, lifted it up, and exclaimed,"How then could it be in my hands?" |
| 34325 | Huai- hai continued,"Have you seen any tigers?" |
| 34325 | I replied:"What sort of place does_ Mu_ have that one can attach arms and legs to it?" |
| 34325 | I want those blows again, but who can give them to me now?" |
| 34325 | If one exempts all nature-- including pigs-- from distinction, discrimination, and duality, why exclude them as drinking companions? |
| 34325 | If you can not recognize your real self objectively, how can you see your real self subjectively?" |
| 34325 | In a moment, ashamed and surprised at his remark, I said to him,"What are they?" |
| 34325 | In both of these anecdotes, Ma- tsu is asked,"What is Buddha?" |
| 34325 | Is there nothing more?" |
| 34325 | It recalls Keats''nightingale--"Fled is that music:--Do I wake or sleep?" |
| 34325 | Lao Tzu asks,"What is the difference between good and bad? |
| 34325 | Ma- tsu continued by asking him,"Is this all there is? |
| 34325 | Ma- tsu paused and then demanded of his pupil,"Where have they gone?" |
| 34325 | Ma- tsu posed a counterquestion:"What teachings do you maintain?" |
| 34325 | Ma- tsu retorted,"What way do you mean?" |
| 34325 | Ma- tsu turned to his pupil and asked,"What was that sound?" |
| 34325 | Monk:"How about yourself?" |
| 34325 | Monk:"When you happen to meet your parents, what should you do?" |
| 34325 | Monk:"Who is he in our country that holds a sword in his hand?" |
| 34325 | Monk:"Whom do you want to kill?" |
| 34325 | Monk:"Why should you not kill yourself, too?" |
| 34325 | Nan- ch''uan asked Huang- po,"Where are you going?" |
| 34325 | Nan- ch''uan opened with the standard question:_"Where have you just come from?" |
| 34325 | Nan- ch''uan went on,"What do you use to pick cabbage?" |
| 34325 | Now, can it be carved into the image of Buddha?" |
| 34325 | Of what use is it to read the scriptures and recite the_ nembutsu_? |
| 34325 | One of the best known is the following:_ A monk asked,"Since all things return to One, where does this One return to?" |
| 34325 | Pointing to an open- air pillar, he asked:"Is this secular or sacred?" |
| 34325 | Probing for a response, he asked,"Given all I have done, what Merit have I earned?" |
| 34325 | Seng- ts''an replied that he knew of the Sangha, but what was meant by the Buddha and the Dharma? |
| 34325 | Showing it to his disciple, he asked,"Is this not fire?" |
| 34325 | Since he did not want to break the bottle or kill the goose, how would he get it out?" |
| 34325 | Since these ancient sages were so diligent, how can present- day trainees do without the practice of_ zazen_? |
| 34325 | Since you do nothing more than sit cross- legged, how can this mere sitting be a means of gaining enlightenment? |
| 34325 | Tao- hsin reportedly inquired,"But do n''t you have a''family name''?" |
| 34325 | The Master exclaimed,"Are you not a lion?" |
| 34325 | The Master said,"Where is the finger that you do not ask about?" |
| 34325 | The Master said:"How do you understand Chao- chou''s_ Mu_?" |
| 34325 | The Master then asked:"What one is your real self?" |
| 34325 | The Master:"Who can do anything to me?" |
| 34325 | The Master:"Why should you have any choice?" |
| 34325 | The celebrated answer was:"How can you become enlightened by sitting in meditation?" |
| 34325 | The exchange began with a question by Tung- shan:_"What is your name?" |
| 34325 | The following anecdote suggests his idea of Buddhism had little to do with the Buddha:_ Master Chao- chou was asked by a monk,"Who is the Buddha?" |
| 34325 | The master asked,"How did you expose them?" |
| 34325 | The master greeted him with the puzzled observation:"Have n''t you come back a bit too soon? |
| 34325 | The monk asked,"What is that which was possessed by the ancients?" |
| 34325 | The monk challenged him,"I asked about the finger; why should you answer me,''the moon''?" |
| 34325 | The monk persisted,"When the crying has stopped, what is it then?" |
| 34325 | The monk said dubiously,"Master, why should you lie?" |
| 34325 | The monk said,"How can the ladder be put up in the sky?" |
| 34325 | The older master then inquired:_"Where are you going?" |
| 34325 | The questioner pressed,"If there is nothing and no mind, then how can it be transmitted?" |
| 34325 | The story goes as follows:_ A monk who lectured on Buddhism came to the Master and asked,"What is the teaching advocated by the Ch''an masters?" |
| 34325 | Then he asked another,"Have you been here before?" |
| 34325 | Then what is the Tao that is beyond things?" |
| 34325 | There are roads, but they do not reach the world; Since I am mindless, who can rouse my thoughts? |
| 34325 | They are all empty, no substantialities have they, and who knows what is and what is not? |
| 34325 | They are all phantom creations and not realities, and who knows who is right and who is wrong? |
| 34325 | This received the most attention from the Lin- chi sect-- whose masters would answer the question"What is the meaning of Ch''an?" |
| 34325 | To begin, they said that if there really is no duality in the world, then how can the mind be divided into"false"and"true"? |
| 34325 | To this Ma- tsu replied,"What can you expect to learn from me? |
| 34325 | Tung- shan demonstrated this when he was asked,"When a snake is swallowing a frog, should you save the frog''s life?" |
| 34325 | Two of the better- known follow:_ A monk asked Yun- men,"What is the teaching that transcends the Buddha and patriarchs?" |
| 34325 | Understandably puzzled, Huai- hai asked,"What is this treasure that I have been ignoring?" |
| 34325 | Was Shen- hui really the father of the new"meditationless"Ch''an of the mind? |
| 34325 | What are the four? |
| 34325 | What charge is there against woman? |
| 34325 | What do we get to know? |
| 34325 | What does self- deception mean? |
| 34325 | What eventually happened to this traveling Indian guru? |
| 34325 | What exactly is it that you understand on the other shore? |
| 34325 | What is it that one will hear constantly which one has never heard?" |
| 34325 | What is it that they transmit to one another?" |
| 34325 | What is it you just realized? |
| 34325 | What is the meaning of this?" |
| 34325 | What is the self that is known subjectively?" |
| 34325 | What is the use of working so hard as a tenzo monk?" |
| 34325 | What then did he teach, if there is nothing to be taught? |
| 34325 | What then was required? |
| 34325 | What virtue is there in man? |
| 34325 | What will you get by sleeping?" |
| 34325 | What, instead, should you call it?" |
| 34325 | When he met the Master in front of the Monks''Hall, he asked:"Do the monks of this monastery read the sutras?" |
| 34325 | Whereupon Tan- hsia scooped up and threw three handfuls of water on the Layman, saying:"What can you do now?" |
| 34325 | Which is"reality"? |
| 34325 | Whom did P''ang go to visit? |
| 34325 | Why do n''t you do_ zazen_[ Zen meditation] or study the koan of ancient masters? |
| 34325 | Why do you ignore the treasure in your own house and wander so far abroad?" |
| 34325 | Why? |
| 34325 | Why? |
| 34325 | You still are not free from''this''?" |
| 34325 | Yun- men said,"A sesame bun._"19_ A monk asked Yun- men,"What is Buddha?" |
| 34325 | Yun- men said,"What words are being offered at Hsi- ch''an these days?" |
| 34325 | _ A monk asked Yun- Men,"What is Buddha?" |
| 34325 | _ Another time a monk asked, what is the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from the West?" |
| 34325 | _ How is my hand like Mori''s hand? |
| 34325 | _ Monk:"With what man of Tao should one associate, so that one will hear constantly what one has never heard?" |
| 34325 | _ Once Huang- po was asked,"If you say that mind can be transmitted, then how can you say it is nothing?" |
| 34325 | _ One day Huai- hai asked Huang- po,"Where have you been?" |
| 34325 | _ One morning, as Chao- chou was receiving new arrivals, he asked one of them,"Have you been here before?" |
| 34325 | _ The Master asked a monk,"Where do you come from?" |
| 34325 | _ The Master asked a nun:"Well- come or ill- come?" |
| 34325 | _ What is meant by"How to requite hatred"? |
| 34325 | _ What is this true meditation? |
| 34325 | _ Yun- men[ 862/4- 949] asked a monk,"Where have you come here from?" |
| 34325 | _"Hey, Your Reverence, what sect are you?" |
| 34325 | asked Huang- po"I just started working; how can you say that I am tired?" |
| 34325 | what is this teaching that we call"sitting in meditation"? |
| 34325 | which is Ch''an parlance for"What is the basic principle of Zen?" |
| 5173 | Do the inanimate preach the Doctrine? |
| 5173 | How art thou going to encounter it? |
| 5173 | How can you turn Self into the phenomenal universe? |
| 5173 | How do you display your supernatural powers? |
| 5173 | How do you, sir,questioned the monk,"teach about that?" |
| 5173 | I have been reciting the sacred Canon, why do you not see? 5173 Is there not anything good in the worshipping of the Buddha?" |
| 5173 | Let go of that, I say,the Muni commanded again; but the Brahmin, having nothing to let go of, asked:"What shall I let go of, Reverend Sir? |
| 5173 | Obak said:''How dares this lunatic come into my presence and play with a tiger''s whiskers?'' 5173 Then who is that confronts us?" |
| 5173 | What doctrine do the masters of the South teach? |
| 5173 | What has brought you here? |
| 5173 | What have I to do when death takes the place of life? |
| 5173 | What is the best way of living for us monks? |
| 5173 | What is the spiritual body of Buddha who is immortal and divine? |
| 5173 | What is, reverend sir,asked a man of Chao Cheu( Jo- shu),"the holy temple( of Buddha)?" |
| 5173 | What is, sir,asked a monk to Yen Kwan( Yen- kan),"the original body of Buddha Vairocana? |
| 5173 | Who are you,demanded the Fifth Patriarch,"and whence have you come?" |
| 5173 | Who can hear them? |
| 5173 | Who is the master of the temple? |
| 5173 | Why, then, do I not hear them? |
| 5173 | [ FN#262] Who could cheer him up who abandons himself to self- created misery? 5173 [ FN#37]"I know, your reverence,"said the man,"that you belong to Samgha; but what are Buddha and Dharma?" |
| 5173 | ''Are these sages alive?'' |
| 5173 | ''How should you, a wheelwright, have anything to say about the book which I am reading? |
| 5173 | ''O monk,''demanded the man, as Boku- den was clad like a Zen monk,''what school of swordsmanship do you belong to?'' |
| 5173 | ''There are nettles everywhere, but are not smooth, green grasses more common still?'' |
| 5173 | ''What is life and death?'' |
| 5173 | ''What is the real nature of mind?'' |
| 5173 | ''What is the spirit of Bodhidharma?'' |
| 5173 | ''Where is my visitor, where my dear monk?'' |
| 5173 | ''Why not,''he might have thought within himself,''why all this is futile? |
| 5173 | ''Why, you might go to the master and ask him what is the essence of Buddhism?'' |
| 5173 | ''Why,''said the teacher,''art thou so late?'' |
| 5173 | A man asked Chang Sha( Cho- sha):"How can you turn the phenomenal universe into Self?" |
| 5173 | A man asked Poh Chang( Hyaku- jo):"How shall I learn the Law?" |
| 5173 | A monk, Hwui Chao( E- cha) by name, asked Pao Yen( Ho- gen):"What is Buddha?" |
| 5173 | Again, if there be nothing real in the universe, what is it that causes unreal objects to appear? |
| 5173 | Again, if there be nothing real in the universe, what is it that causes unreal objects to appear? |
| 5173 | Are the stars too distant? |
| 5173 | Are there not holy men, Holy Truths, Holy Paths stated in the scriptures? |
| 5173 | Are there not many who are rich without any virtues, while some are poor in spite of their virtues? |
| 5173 | Are there not the humane, who die young, while the inhuman enjoy long lives? |
| 5173 | Are there not the unjust who are fortunate, while the just are unfortunate? |
| 5173 | Are we doomed to be victims for the jaws of the environment? |
| 5173 | Are we not endowed with inner force to fight successfully against obstacles and difficulties, and to wrest trophies of glory from hardships? |
| 5173 | Are we to be slaves to the vicissitudes of fortune? |
| 5173 | But are your beliefs, we should ask, based on historical fact? |
| 5173 | But as soon as they withdraw into themselves and ask themselves,''Am I now happy?'' |
| 5173 | But is there inner life expressed, or possible to be expressed, in any other form save physical organism? |
| 5173 | By what authority does he declare all this meritless? |
| 5173 | Can a superior man be without the feeling of shame to such an extent as this?'' |
| 5173 | Can you assert that those traditions which deify Mohammed and Shakya are the statements of bare facts? |
| 5173 | Can you cause things to fall off the earth against the law of gravitation? |
| 5173 | Can you not recognize something undisturbed and peaceful among disturbance and trouble? |
| 5173 | Can you realize that death, which you have yet no immediate experience of, is the greatest of evil? |
| 5173 | Can you recognize something awe- inspiring in the rise and fall of nations? |
| 5173 | Can you say that such traditional and self- contradictory records as the four gospels are history in the strict sense of the term? |
| 5173 | Can you thus prove that you- in- yourself exist beyond or behind you? |
| 5173 | Confucius replied:''What words are these? |
| 5173 | Could there be any meat that is not fresh in my shop?'' |
| 5173 | Do n''t you see?" |
| 5173 | Do they denote or connote anything? |
| 5173 | Do you bear the trumpet call? |
| 5173 | Do you feel the earth tremble? |
| 5173 | Do you not need to mitigate the struggle for existence more sanguine than the war of weapons? |
| 5173 | Do you not shed tears over those hunger- bitten children who cower in the dark lanes of a great city? |
| 5173 | Do you not sympathize with poverty- stricken millions living side by side with millionaires saturated with wealth? |
| 5173 | Do you not want to do away with the so- called armoured peace among nations? |
| 5173 | Do you not wish to put down the stupendous oppressor-- Might- is- right? |
| 5173 | Does He not give new forms to His design? |
| 5173 | Does He not show us new materials for His building? |
| 5173 | Does He not surprise us with novelties, extraordinaries, and mysteries? |
| 5173 | Does not even a stone tell the mystery of Life? |
| 5173 | Does this not amount to your stealing the annual salary from your lord?" |
| 5173 | Does, then, Zen use no scripture? |
| 5173 | For what purpose is your question? |
| 5173 | For whose sake should he take life,[FN#350] or commit theft, or give alms, or keep precepts? |
| 5173 | For whose sake, then, should he be lustful or angry? |
| 5173 | Has it a form? |
| 5173 | Has not art found that she is beautiful? |
| 5173 | Has not each of us a light within him, whatever degrees of lustre there may be? |
| 5173 | Has not even grass some meaning? |
| 5173 | Has not philosophy announced that she is spiritual? |
| 5173 | Has not religion proclaimed that she is good? |
| 5173 | Has not science proved that she is truthful? |
| 5173 | Has there been any paramour who disgraced himself that lie might help his neighbours? |
| 5173 | Has there been any traitor who performed the ignoble conduct to promote the welfare of his own country or society at large? |
| 5173 | Has there been anyone who committed theft that he might further the interests of his villagers? |
| 5173 | Has, then, the divine nature of Universal Spirit been completely and exhaustively revealed in our Enlightened Consciousness? |
| 5173 | Have we not hundreds of thousands of life- long slaves to gold among us? |
| 5173 | Have we not myriads of lifelong slaves to vanity among us? |
| 5173 | Have we not thousands of life- long slaves to spirits among us? |
| 5173 | Have we not, nevertheless, hundreds of life- long slaves to cigars among us? |
| 5173 | He replied:''What profession is there which has not its principles? |
| 5173 | How can he be so? |
| 5173 | How can it, by coming quickly into the eyes and ears, distinguish the pleasing from the disgusting in external objects? |
| 5173 | How can such a person be the master of things? |
| 5173 | How can the divine law of causality be so unreasonable? |
| 5173 | How can the spirits of the past always live in a crowd? |
| 5173 | How can there be reward for the good( as it is taught in your sacred books),[FN#315] that Heaven blesses the good and shows grace to the humble? |
| 5173 | How can this one put the others in motion, or communicate with them, in order to co- operate in producing Karma? |
| 5173 | How can we suppose that we, the children of Buddha, are put at the mercy of petty troubles, or intended to be crushed by obstacles? |
| 5173 | How can you be saved when you are at the verge of death? |
| 5173 | How can you single out angels from among devils? |
| 5173 | How could I understand all human affairs, ancient and modern, in the world? |
| 5173 | How could he be reluctant to give his halo?" |
| 5173 | How could he, however, succeed in his task unless he has two or three lives, as some animals are believed to have? |
| 5173 | How could it be called a noble( path)? |
| 5173 | How could it be possible to make the unmoral being moral or immoral? |
| 5173 | How could man, the most spiritual of the Three Powers[FN#284] exist without an origin? |
| 5173 | How could one extirpate man''s bad nature implanted within him at his origin? |
| 5173 | How could such a dull fellow as I grasp its spirit?" |
| 5173 | How could we save the dying by persuading them that death is a bare privation of life? |
| 5173 | How could you establish the authority of morality? |
| 5173 | How could you know Him to be a Divine man different from other criminals who were crucified with Him? |
| 5173 | How could you say that its relation to a knower is the only and fundamental relation for the existence of the tree? |
| 5173 | How could you think anything purely spiritual and formless existing without blending together with other things? |
| 5173 | How did he come to consider that he ought to be good and ought not to be bad? |
| 5173 | How do kings differ from beggars in the eye of Transience? |
| 5173 | How do you know the causes of one are more numerous than the causes of the other? |
| 5173 | How does it differ from soul? |
| 5173 | How was it possible for man to do good before these sages''appearance on earth? |
| 5173 | How, then, can the heart within freely pass to the organs of sense without? |
| 5173 | How, then, did philosophers come to consider reality to be unknowable and hidden behind or beyond appearances? |
| 5173 | How, then, do you distinguish the real cause of pain from that of pleasure? |
| 5173 | How, then, does Alaya give rise to them through transformation? |
| 5173 | How, then, is life sustained there and kept up in continuous birth after birth? |
| 5173 | Hwui Chung( Ye- chu), a famous disciple of the Sixth Patriarch in China, to quote an example, one day asked a monk:"Where did you come from?" |
| 5173 | If it be said that it is the mind that produces Karma( I ask), what is the mind? |
| 5173 | If it be the will of Heaven to bless so limited a number of persons at all, and to curse so many, why is Heaven so partial? |
| 5173 | If man be double- natured, how did he come to set good over evil? |
| 5173 | If mind as well as external objects be unreal, who is it that knows they are so? |
| 5173 | If morality be merely subjective, and there be no objective standard, how can you distinguish evil from good? |
| 5173 | If the dream is not the same as the things dreamed, in what other form does it appear to you? |
| 5173 | If the external objects which are transformed are unreal, how can the Vijnyana, the transformer, be real? |
| 5173 | If there be no distinction between the pleasing and the disgusting, why does it accept the one or reject the other? |
| 5173 | If there be no individual soul either in mind or body, where does personality lie? |
| 5173 | If there be no life in earth, how could life come out of it? |
| 5173 | If there be no life similar to ours in animals, how could we sustain our life by subsisting on them? |
| 5173 | If there be no life, the same as the animal''s life in the vegetables, how could animals sustain their lives feeding on vegetables? |
| 5173 | If there be no unchanging mirror, bright and clean, bow can there be the various images, unreal and temporary, reflected in it? |
| 5173 | If there be no unchanging mirror, bright and clean, how can there be various images, unreal and temporary, reflected in it? |
| 5173 | If there be no water of unchanging fluidity, how can there be the unreal and temporary forms of waves? |
| 5173 | If there be no water of unchanging fluidity,[FN#373] how can there be the unreal and temporary forms of waves? |
| 5173 | If there be no way of escape, why do you trouble yourself about it? |
| 5173 | If this assertion be true, is it not a useless task to educate man with the purpose of making him better and nobler? |
| 5173 | If vices be congenial and true to man''s nature, but virtues be alien and untrue to him, why are virtues honoured by him? |
| 5173 | If vices be genuine and virtue a deception, as you think, why do you call the inventors of that deceiving art sages? |
| 5173 | If you contend that good is man''s primary nature and evil the secondary one, why is be so often overpowered by the secondary nature? |
| 5173 | If you could conquer the enemy without fighting, what then is your sword for?'' |
| 5173 | If, again, man''s nature is essentially bad, as Siun Tsz holds, how can he cultivate virtue? |
| 5173 | In short, why are so many destined to be unlucky and so few to be lucky? |
| 5173 | In such a world as this, what is the use of the enjoyment of pleasures, if he who has fed on them is to return to this world again and again? |
| 5173 | Is he himself not one of the holy men?'' |
| 5173 | Is it bright? |
| 5173 | Is it conscious? |
| 5173 | Is it empty? |
| 5173 | Is it intelligent? |
| 5173 | Is it non- intelligent? |
| 5173 | Is it not a fact that the more virtuous one grows the more sinful he feels himself? |
| 5173 | Is it not best for it to do so? |
| 5173 | Is it not just one moment from the nuptial song to the funeral- dirge? |
| 5173 | Is it not just one step from rosy childhood to snowy age? |
| 5173 | Is it not mere tautology? |
| 5173 | Is the doomsday coming instead? |
| 5173 | Is there any example of an individual object that escaped the government of that law in the whole history of the world? |
| 5173 | Is there any instance of an individual who escaped it in the whole history of mankind? |
| 5173 | Is there any merit, Reverend Sir, in our conduct?" |
| 5173 | Is this not contrary to fact? |
| 5173 | Laying aside his hammer and chisel, Phien went up the steps and said:''I venture to ask your Grace what words you are reading?'' |
| 5173 | Let us ask you: Are you satisfied with the present state of things? |
| 5173 | Li Ngao( Ri- ko) one day asked Yoh Shan( Yaku- san):"What is the way to truth?" |
| 5173 | Might I ask you, sir, to pacify my mind?" |
| 5173 | Nothing exists from the first What can be dimmed by dust and dirt?" |
| 5173 | Now ask yourself what is you- in- yourself? |
| 5173 | Now if I, being born among men, know not whence I came( into this life), how could I know whither I am going in the after- life? |
| 5173 | Now the question arises, If all human beings are endowed with Buddha- nature, why have they not come naturally to be Enlightened? |
| 5173 | Now, then, what is the use of our life, if it stand still? |
| 5173 | Now, then, who can point out any sinless person in the present world? |
| 5173 | Of what use( then) are the teachings of Lao Tsz and Chwang Tsz? |
| 5173 | One day she instructed a young girl to embrace and ask him:"How do you feel now?" |
| 5173 | Or did you do so, in the service of a perishing state, by the punishment of an axe? |
| 5173 | Or was it that you had completed your term of life?'' |
| 5173 | Or was it through your evil conduct, reflecting disgrace on your parents and on your wife and children? |
| 5173 | Or was it through your hard endurances of cold and hunger? |
| 5173 | Ordinary people know not even the phenomena actually occurring before them; how could they understand the unseen? |
| 5173 | Pao Chi( Ho- shi), a Buddhist tutor to the Emperor, asked the perplexed monarch:"Does your Lordship understand him?" |
| 5173 | Perhaps he might have thought:''Why is nothing holy? |
| 5173 | Providence, salvation, and divine grace-- what are they? |
| 5173 | Say, one and all, how do you understand the Law?" |
| 5173 | Shall we perish in the darkness of scepticism, shutting our eyes to the light of Tathagata? |
| 5173 | Shall we say, then, that the shape of the nail gave the shape of the coat, or in any way corresponds to it? |
| 5173 | Shall we starve ourselves refusing to accept the rich bounty which the Blessed Life offers to us? |
| 5173 | Shall we suffer from innumerable pains in the self- created hell where remorse, jealousy, and hatred feed the fire of anger? |
| 5173 | So why do they not see and hear and thus produce Karma? |
| 5173 | Such is the clearness of still water, and how much greater is that of the human spirit? |
| 5173 | Tapping it with his horse- switch, he asked it saying:''Did you, sir, in your greed of life, fail in the lessons of reason and come to this? |
| 5173 | The elder said:''Have you ever approached the master and asked his instruction in Buddhism?'' |
| 5173 | Then Tung Shan went round the chair, taking the officer with him, and making a bow again to the officer, asked:"Do you see what I mean?" |
| 5173 | Then an attendant of his asked"What is the matter?" |
| 5173 | Then the monk bowed politely to the teacher, who questioned:"How did you understand me?" |
| 5173 | Then, turning to another monk, inquired:"How did you understand me?" |
| 5173 | Thus thinking, he inquired:"What is the holy truth, or the first principle?" |
| 5173 | To the question,"What and who is Buddha?" |
| 5173 | Tung Shan( To- Zan) was on one occasion attending on his teacher Yun Yen( Un- gan), who asked:"What are your supernatural powers?" |
| 5173 | Was it not typical of a so- called great man of the world? |
| 5173 | Was not Jesus also a criminal? |
| 5173 | Was not Socrates a criminal? |
| 5173 | Was the golden age of man, then, over in the remote past? |
| 5173 | We have to ask, in what respects does the interrelation between mind and body resemble the relation between a coat and a nail? |
| 5173 | Were we born eyeless, should we not be happy, as we are in no danger of suffering from eye disease? |
| 5173 | Were we born headless, should we not be happy, as we have to suffer from no headache? |
| 5173 | What business have you, a Samurai, with a thing of that sort? |
| 5173 | What can I do for you?" |
| 5173 | What does he hold as the first principle of Buddhism?'' |
| 5173 | What does his Absolute, or One, or Substance mean? |
| 5173 | What does his Reality or Truth imply? |
| 5173 | What holy text can be quoted to justify his assertion? |
| 5173 | What is Real Self? |
| 5173 | What is his view in reference to the different doctrines taught by Shakya Muni? |
| 5173 | What is morality, then? |
| 5173 | What is our sin, after all? |
| 5173 | What is self?'' |
| 5173 | What is the difference between eternal life, fixed and constant, and eternal death? |
| 5173 | What is the difference between everlasting bliss, changeless and monotonous, and everlasting suffering? |
| 5173 | What is the reason of all this? |
| 5173 | What is the use of your endeavour in the reformation of society, which does not endure any longer than the castle in the air? |
| 5173 | What is the use of your exertion, they would say, in accumulating wealth, which is doomed to melt away in the twinkling of an eye? |
| 5173 | What is the use of your striving after power, which is more short- lived than a bubble? |
| 5173 | What you hold as duty may I not condemn as sin? |
| 5173 | What you honour may I not denounce as disgrace? |
| 5173 | What, then, are the spirits of the dead( which they believe in)? |
| 5173 | What, then, is the chief agent that produces Karma? |
| 5173 | What, then, is the use of your worship?" |
| 5173 | When that monk came down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked:''Where art thou from? |
| 5173 | Where do you go when your body is reduced to elements? |
| 5173 | Where does the Root of the Illusion Lie? |
| 5173 | Where does the Root of the Illusion Lie? |
| 5173 | Where does the real nature of mind exist? |
| 5173 | Where, then, does the Error Lie? |
| 5173 | Where, then, does the Error Lie? |
| 5173 | Where, then, does the error lie in the four possible propositions respecting man''s nature? |
| 5173 | Who can deny furthermore that Wang''s philosophy is Zen in the Confucian terminology? |
| 5173 | Who can deny that one''s physical conditions determine one''s character or personality? |
| 5173 | Who can draw a strict line of demarcation between mind and body? |
| 5173 | Who can live the same moment twice? |
| 5173 | Who can overlook the fact that one''s bodily conditions positively act upon one''s personal life? |
| 5173 | Who can say that Zen is nihilistic?" |
| 5173 | Who can tell whether another sanguinary affair will not break out before the Bulgarian bloodshed comes to an end? |
| 5173 | Who could blind your spiritual eyes, unless you yourself shut them up? |
| 5173 | Who could chain your will but your own will? |
| 5173 | Who could prevent you from enjoying moral food, unless you yourself refuse to eat? |
| 5173 | Who could put fetters on your mind but your mind itself? |
| 5173 | Who could save him who denies his own salvation? |
| 5173 | Who is that other person?" |
| 5173 | Who, then, after the destruction of body by death, would receive the retribution( in the form) of pain or of pleasure? |
| 5173 | Why are trees and grass which were also formed of the same Gas unconscious? |
| 5173 | Why did Lao Tsz, Chwang Tsz, Cheu Kung[FN#304] and Confucius do such a useless task as to found their doctrines and lay down the precepts for men? |
| 5173 | Why do the sun and the earth seem changeless and constant to you? |
| 5173 | Why do we prefer an animal life, which passes away in a few scores of years, to a vegetable life, which can exist thousands of years? |
| 5173 | Why do we prize changing organism more than inorganic matter, unchanging and constant? |
| 5173 | Why do we value the morning glory, which fades in a few hours, more than an artificial glass flower, which endures hundreds of years? |
| 5173 | Why do you bother yourself about such an idle question? |
| 5173 | Why do you not preach?" |
| 5173 | Why do you waste your energy in the construction of the Three Worlds? |
| 5173 | Why does it wait for some direct or indirect causes( to gain its knowledge), and to acquire them through study and instruction? |
| 5173 | Why not, then, these trees, grass, etc., the alphabets of Nature when they compose the Volume of the Universe? |
| 5173 | Why so many to be low and so few to be high? |
| 5173 | Why, then, do you trouble yourself about it? |
| 5173 | Why, we must ask, do you trouble yourself so much about death? |
| 5173 | Would you know where He is? |
| 5173 | Would you like to hear me, sir, tell you about death?'' |
| 5173 | Yoh Shan, pointing to the sky and then to the pitcher beside him, said:"You see?" |
| 5173 | [ FN#261]"Who ties you up?" |
| 5173 | [ FN#407] Ratnakuta- sutra(? |
| 5173 | what does it avail you to come and go all the time like this?'' |