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• Category: Adhyatma Yoga
  • Zen realization on some sudden noise, or sight etc.
  • Guru and God
  • Purpose in yoga
  • Teaching Points (December 1997)
  • Reading holy texts
  • Service
  • Yoga – Introductory talk and Independence
  • Illusions and realities
  • Dreaming and Acting what is actually happening?
  • The Five Sheaths
  • The Power beyond the Mind (Part 1)
  • The causal layer
  • Scattered Pearls
  • Remedying obstacles
  • Mysticism of the Heart
  • Reducing casual thoughts
  • Bhagavad Gita Chapters 2 and 3
  • Rama Tirtha – a Biographical Note
  • Patanjali and Advaita
  • Making The Desert Bloom
  • Moon in the Water
  • Morality and The Bhagavad Gita
  • Learning by Heart
  • Cured but not Healed
  • As Gladstone Did Not Say
  • Freedoms clash within our very selves
  • Sanga or association
  • Unusual experience in meditation
  • Shankara and Science
  • Action and reaction
  • A commentary on the Chapter of the Self
  • The New English Bible
  • Cosmic Purpose
  • The Path in Brief
  • God does not think
  • The Traditional Teacher
  • Creativity in Science and Art
  • The nature of inspiration
  • Glory in the Great Religions
  • The Upanishads are like flashes of lightning
  • Karma yoga slowly unknots the tangle of identifications
  • Fatalists twist the doctrine of karma
  • The human weakness of trying to cover up failure
  • Dharma refers to the practice of karma yoga
  • Look for extraordinary inspirations
  • Bringing Christian morality
  • Samādhi
  • There are three Gunas in the Vedanta and the Yoga philosophy
  • Hari Prasad Shastri and Shri Dada of Aligarh
  • Still Water, Bright Mirror
  • Even a little of this Dharma relieves from anxiety
  • Achieving release from illusory bonds of identity with body and mind
  • Exercise of the memory is not a burden
  • The purity and flexibility of mind-stuff have nothing to do with its attributes and acquirements
  • Truth
  • The yogi is not asked to give up anything real
  • St Paul and the Universal viewpoint
  • Apples and oranges
  • Temple and Inner Temple
  • Interpreting yogic experiences as merely psychological experiences
  • Is Ishvara Illusory? Is God an illusion?
  • We are told sometimes to accept the events of our lives as the will of God
  • An outline of Adhyatma Yoga
  • Why do I have to study Sanskrit words and Indian ideas?
  • The basis of morality in yoga is different from that of humanism
  • Knots of the heart, vasana’s and sanskara’s
  • Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada’s Karika
  • Yoga must make us creative
  • Four short pieces on the sun/moon reflected in the water
  • Patanjali lists nine different forms of samadhi
  • Action should be calm, well-directed to a right objective, and efficient
  • Austerity has to be practised in small things at first
  • Future champions
  • The meaning of Vairagya or non-attachment
  • Vichara is a Sanskrit word having the sense of investigating, examining, and analysing
  • Meditation in Japanese Zen Temples 
  • The tripod of human virtues is Courage, Benevolence, Wisdom
  • Forms assumed by the Lord for his devotees
  • Two Stories
  • The goal of yoga is defined as knowledge of Reality
  • The Moon in the Water
  • Key verses from Chapter 9 of the Bhagavad Gita
  • Eight Short Poems of the Zen Master Mu-Nan
  • Bodhidharma The First Zen Patriarch in China
  • Madhusudana’s Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita
  • Casting off worn-out bodies, the body-wearer passes on to new ones
  • Caste and Action in the Bhagavad Gita
  • The Yoga of Knowledge Chapter Five of the Bhagavad Gita
  • The Spiritual Teacher in the Bhagavad Gita
  • The Power of Zazen.
  • The Nature of Reality
  • The Mystical Death
  • The process of Yoga is recovery of an obscured fact
  • A spiritual chain reaction begins
  • The purpose of meditation is realization of an existing fact
  • Meditation on the heart-lotus
  • Reactions in Yoga
  • Spiritual Archery
  • One of the great means of instruction is telling stories.
  • The Gita on “I do nothing” “I do nothing at all”
  • The doctrine of the five sheaths as a method to obtain self-realization
  • Focusing the Mind
  • Heart of Religion
  • From the treasury of the True Law by Zen Master Dogen
  • This Very Body The Buddha
  • The Lord takes twenty steps towards him
  • Viryam or Virility
  • Mauwiya’s duel with Satan
  • Find the undying in the dying
  • Emptiness bringing with it a kind of coolness and light
  • Discipline and Liberation
  • Attain intensification of practice and experience
  • Dimensions of Mind
  • Concentration and Meditation
  • Arjuna’s doubts about Krishna’s teachings
  • The savour of Love’s mystery disappears
  • Spiritual realization can be tried for, and attained, in states of suffering
  • A visit to Sringeri
  • In Yoga, faith is to be the basis for inquiry
  • The minds of the wise are free from fixed attitudes
  • A Verse From Hakuin’s `Song of Meditation
  • A Verse from a Lost Upanishad
  • A Glimpse Of Japanese Poetry
  • A Gita Verse on Karma Yoga Renouncing all action in Me
  • The infinity of knowledge free from all veiling taint
  • Succession of the gunas
  • Transcendental Aloneness is withdrawal of the gunas
  • Worship for Sceptics
  • Spiritual river in the human mind
  • Performing duty without attachment
  • Points from three talks by Swami Rama Tirtha
• Category: Ages of Zen
  • King Ashwapati
  • Introduction to ‘Stone Sermon’
  • Treading the Way of Zen
  • Meditation with the utmost intensity
  • Balancing Zen training with life
  • Interview in the Poisonous Wolf Cave
  • Zen sayings of Master Gyodo
  • Practising Zen at war
  • Facing prison in a Soviet war camp
  • Prison release
  • Training in the poisonous wolf’s cave
  • Consultation with Dr. Daisetsu Suzuki
  • Meditation zazengi
  • An interview with Zen Master Kendo
  • Giving up family
  • Emptiness of the three elements of gift
  • Zen Master Kendo
  • Imai Fukuzan’s Introduction to Shonan-katto-roku
  • Extracts from Imai Fukuzan’s Introduction to Warrior Zen
  • The mirror of Enkakuji – Koan 1
  • Saving Sajiwara’s Soul – Koan 3
  • Bukko’s No-Word Sutra – Koan 5
  • The Bucket without a Bottom – Koan 7
  • Jizo Stands Up – Koan 8
  • Numbering the Waves on Yui Beach – Koan 17
  • Tokimune’s Thing below the Navel – Koan 18
  • Stopping the fighting across the River – Koan 22
  • The Cave of the Man in Mount Fuji – Koan 24
  • The rite of the Wind God at Kamakura – Koan 28
  • The Cat-Monster – Koan 33
  • Yakushi of a thousand forms – Koan 36
  • The Birth of the Buddha – Koan 39
  • Sameness – Koan 46
  • The basic truth of Buddhism – Koan 48
  • Reading one’s own mind – Koan 50
  • Bukko’s death poem – Koan 57
  • The gravestone with no name – Koan 60
  • How the sutra of the Resolution of the Brahma-king’s Doubt was put into the canon – Koan 65
  • Pasting the charm on the heart – Koan 73
  • The lotus strainer – Koan 79
  • Tanka’s Buddha-burning – Koan 94
• Category: Bhagavad Gita
  • Study of the Bhagavad Gita in Santa Math
  • Rebirth
  • Bhagavad Gita – Chapters 5 & 6 (Sanskrit)
  • Arjuna’s Choice
  • Madhusudana’s commentary on the Bhagavad Gita
  • The Bhagavad Gita is a mystical section of the Mahabharata
  • The special contribution of the Gita is yoga
  • Gita inspiration
  • Evenness in Success and No-success
  • Free-in-Life
  • Karma Yoga – Shankara’s Bhagavad Gita Commentary
  • The Four Vocations
  • Bhagavad Gita
  • Freedom
  • Karma-Yoga Action
  • Overseer and approver
  • Uprush
  • Reflected Sun in Shankara’s Bhagavad Gita commentary
  • Purity of Being
  • A string of pearls, is an image used in the Bhagavad Gita
  • How to know exactly what the Bhagavad Gita text says
  • The mystical tradition and the intellectual tradition
  • Shri Shankara’s commentary on the Bhagavad Gita
  • The Bhagavad Gita is a book of practical mystical instruction
  • Experimental religion is the method of Self-realization
  • Bhagavad Gita means literally ‘Sung by the Lord’
  • The Two Traditions in the Bhagavad Gita
  • Translation of verses from the Bhagavad Gita by Trevor Leggett
  • The Setting of the Bhagavad Gita
  • Arjuna reinforces his refusal to fight in the Bhagavad Gita
  • Final knowledge is already there but not recognized
  • The Supreme Self Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2
  • Karma Yoga the yoga of action
  • Yoga of the Self Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3
  • Arjuna’s Disbelief
  • How Arjuna Addresses Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita
  • Action Bhagavad Gita Chapter 4
  • Knowledge Bhagavad Gita Chapter 5
  • Formal meditation posture
  • Meditation Bhagavad Gita Chapter 6
  • The Lord Bhagavad Gita Chapter 7
  • Yoga Power Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8
  • Glories Bhagavad Gita Chapters 9 & 10
  • Face to Face Bhagavad Gita Chapter 11
  • Devotion Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12
  • The Field Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13
  • The Gunas Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14
  • One and Many Bhagavad Gita Chapter 15
  • Passion Struggle Bhagavad Gita Chapter 16
  • Faith is sattva rajas tamas
  • Worship, Gift, Austerity Gita Chapter 17
  • Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18 Conclusion
  • Krishna speaks of reincarnation
  • Sankara’s Presentation of the Bhagavad Gita Paths
  • Sankara analyses cases of illusion
  • Bhagavad Gita contradictory doctrines
  • Complete independence of the opposites.
  • Samskara impressions are latent and dynamic
  • Karma Yoga Action
  • Samadhi of karma yoga
  • Sattva suddhi Purity of Being
  • I am Brahman
  • Samnyasa Throwing Off Action
  • Jnana Nistha Knowledge-Stance
  • Freedom is not the same as the idea of freedom
  • The Self shines in its own glory
  • Adhyatma Yoga is based on transcendental experience
  • Mistakes are not forward steps
  • What’s the use of trying?
  • Brahmin, warrior, businessman, and server
  • Yoga action begins with following traditional instructions
  • Free from all restrictions
  • The Bhagavad Gita is a teaching for crisis
  • The idea of reincarnation contains hints at wider truths
  • Another causality underlying the causality of the world
  • Rama Tirtha after his God-realization
  • Sankara’s Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita
  • Jnana Yoga Path for Sankhyas
  • Nistha doctrine of liberation
  • Paripaka is maturing or ripening
  • Avasana, Destination, Resting-Place
  • Anubhava in accordance with what truly is
  • Karma Yoga is especially contrasted with the jnana yoga
  • Samyasa was to leave home and property and wander forth
  • Exceptions to Formal Samyasa
• Category: Biography
  • Music & Life Eichosha July 1984
  • Eva Turner
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Abott Obora
  • Sogen Bukko
  • The priest Kobo Daishi was a universal genius and scholar
  • Siddhi
  • The last Confucian sage was Wang Yang-ming
  • Narayana Prasad (Shri Dada)
  • Jan Smuts and the stoep
  • A Memory of Dr Shastri
  • Trevor Pryce Leggett
• Category: Book reviews
  • The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
• Category: Encounters in Yoga and Zen
  • How to read spiritual stories
  • Cloth and Stone
  • Sparks
  • Cloth against cloth, or stone against stone
  • A deeper point must be sought
  • Iron rods
  • The Preacher
  • The Wine Pot
  • Mirrors
  • Fried Eels
  • A Tremendous Lot
  • The Pure Land 
  • The Bridge
  • The Fourth Truth
  • The Vase
  • The Sieve
  • Pearls before swine
  • Help No Help
  • The Buddhas Fingers
  • Gifts
  • The backhander
  • The Tortoise
  • Eighty percent is perfection
  • Grace of God
  • Will of God
  • Tea
  • Chains
  • The Blue Cloth
  • Sweeping
  • The Needle in the Haystack
  • Incredible
  • Qualification
  • Drunk
  • Meditation in Yoga and Zen
  • The Way of The Merchant
  • Powers
  • The Door
  • The Calligrapher
  • Obstacles
  • Karma in Yoga and Zen
  • Unsteadiness in Yoga and Zen
  • The Nesting Instinct
  • New
  • Looking up
• Category: Glossary
  • Glossary
• Category: Japanese Culture
  • Sutemi
  • Trevor Leggett answers questions about Japan in 1985
  • Our minds cannot be typed in some way
  • The Closed Fist of the Teacher
  • Kangeiko and Shochugeiko
  • The second kind of pupil
  • Teacher Out-of-date, Up-to-date
  • Some Shakespeare plays have helped me in life
  • Too much Man, Too little Man
  • Victor Hugo awakened the sense of compassion in France, as Dickens did in Britain
  • Do Social Service social service, on an entirely voluntary and unpaid basis
  • One of them was a jewel
  • The tip of the iceberg
  • The Principle of Fairness
  • Sparks from the flint of the heart
  • Onshi: Revered Teacher
  • Principle of Highest Efficiency
  • The Japanese Romaji is beautifully clear
  • Buddha-nature, where is it?
  • The special point of Budo is that the inspiration has to manifest at high speed
  • The British respect sincerity , but unless it brings something good we feel it is often wasted.
  • The Japanese have so much theoretical knowledge that sometimes they cannot easily make a decision
  • Buddhist monks are in general far more educated than most samurai.
  • I could laugh at my failures. I knew they would not be for ever.
  • In life, most people judge what to do by looking at outside standards often they simply do what other people are doing.
  • Everything changes; everything ends in Goodbye to all that
  • The man who relies on certain tricks in life, may have success for a time, but it cannot last long.
  • The outer calm, which so impresses visitors to Japan, is part of an external gloss.
  • Let us shoot at each other. If you are the better archer, you will win’. The challenge was declined.
  • A common bad habit in life is to take in ghost lodgers.
  • One of the most important things in life is gentle persistence.
  • The principle of Ju, or Gentleness
  • To learn something positive we need instruction, observation, inference and experience
  • Some of the Japanese masters of the sword were also highly skilled in other arts
  • Zen masters are fond of drawing a big circle, to represent the perfection of the universal Buddha-nature
  • The Budo spirit does not give us technique, but it gives us calm courage
  • Bullying is a problem all over the world, but the amount of it varies in different countries and at different times
  • Duties are not so much spoken about; rights are everywhere
  • Study and find out for yourselves, not secondhand
  • I have no strategy. I make kyojitsu, emptiness and fullness, my strategy
  • A part of the inner training of Budo is to overcome unconscious bonds
  • The future of Budo is something which must come from Japanese themselves
  • There’s a traditional Japanese farce called Changing Zazen
  • Inner Self Training
  • Four Keys to Learning
  • Putting Life Into Life
  • Training for later experiences in life
  • Technique can develop almost endlessly
  • Dr. Jigoro Kano in Judo
  • With Faith in Fellow Human Beings
  • The bujin must keep fullness during the waza
  • What are Japanese people really like?
  • The Unforgettable Friend whom I Met Only Once
  • Budo and World Culture
  • Budo and Yin and Yang
  • Real Sportsmanship
  • Being sincere versus being right in Japan
  • The Spirit of Budo
  • Two Zen Stories
  • True Man of No Rank
• Category: Judo
  • Skill is to conceal skill    
  • The martial arts is one way of studying Zen
  • Fingers and Moons
  • The limit of endurance
  • Cutting off the bull’s horns (longer version)
  • Judo is to give you something for life
  • Imagination and Open Judo
  • Weaknesses
  • Stances
  • Training
  • Spontaneity
  • The blind spot
  • Bushi of the Yin, Bushi of the Yang
  • Outer and inner balance
  • Judo and shuji
  • The cherry tree
  • Question
  • Efficiency of the heart
  • Specialisation
  • Help
  • Limits of technique
  • Ways of inner development
  • Dr. Kano’s washing
  • Ingenuity
  • The tradition of judo
  • ]udo koan
  • Beginners
  • Kind-hearted
  • Hard and soft
  • A tiny bit of pain
  • Ippon-yari
  • Run-up
  • Sacrifices
  • Special duties
  • Judo excuses
  • The dragon mask I
  • The dragon mask II
  • Onshi
  • Tricks
  • Manners
  • The killer instinct, the temper, the fury
  • A lovely style
  • Cutting the bull’s horns off 
  • Tigers and rabbits
  • Specialities
  • Predicting the result
  • The new black belt
  • Inspiration
  • Kangeiko
  • Disadvantages
  • The learning process
  • Surprise
  • Falling without hurting
  • Trying to master hane-gosh
  • Endurance
  • Quick
  • Even effort
  • Hold
  • Kata judo introduction second part
  • Kata judo introduction first part
  • They put on fierce expression and attitude, though they have no intention of actually fighting Judo
  • Judo should naturally lead to meditation
  • The student must realize that the teacher has faith in him, the student himself
  • Why do we do judo? The true answer is to train body and mind to act efficiently in life
  • In the Far East the Dragon is the spirit of transcendence
  • Judo spontaneity, the blind spot and Bushi of the Yin, Bushi of the Yang
  • Trevor leggett on Judo and Shuji
  • Imagination and Open Judo : Weaknesses, Stances and Training
  • Judo is not football.
  • Cutting off the bull’s horns in Judo
• Category: Koryu Budo
  • Internal Energy in the Martial Arts and Beyond
  • Meditation practices in the Martial Arts Path
  • It is as if a God acted through you.
  • Stopping the rush of thoughts
  • Do not meet hard with hard, or soft with soft
  • The magic of Japan
  • Trevor Leggett in Japan
  • Budo and Judo origins discredited
  • Inner Calm and Resolution
  • Respect for sincerity
  • Sincere nonsense
  • Inspired by Sincerity
  • Games associated with gentlemen
  • Western Chess and Japanese Shogi
  • True Sportsmanship
  • Yin and Yang in Budo
  • Yin and yang fighting
  • Preparing oneself for battle
  • Inner Calm
  • Saigo’s silence
  • Admiral Kantaro Suzuki
  • Chivalry and Budo
  • The four virtues
  • The Emerging Ideal of Budo
  • Different Patterns of Behaviour
  • Budo – overcoming corruption in business and politics
  • Impulsive Generosity
  • The Unforgettable Friend I Met Only Once
  • Is he a True Sportsman?
  • On Humour
  • Life as a Laughing Matter
  • A sense of humour
  • Technical Training as a Means
  • Achieve freedom of Mind
  • Jumping Beyond Skill
  • Going Alone
  • Faith in Fellow Human Beings
  • The Four Keys to Learning
  • Training the Inner Self
  • A Source of Calm Courage
  • Dynamic Words
  • The Unforgettable Words of Tani
  • Free from Fixed Ideas
  • What’s Unique to Western Music
  • Emptiness and Fullness
  • Dr. Jigoro Kano and Judo
  • What We Learn from Judo
  • Study for Yourself, Cultivate Yourself
  • Bunbu Ryodo
  • Training for What?
  • The Wide Range and the Short Range
  • Judo in Real Life
  • What Judo Teaches Us
  • Being Good on the Mat Isn’t Enough
  • The Will to Make It Happen
  • The Impossible Can Happen
  • Emptying the Mind
  • Budo notes
  • Budo Glossary
• Category: Letters to Japan
  • Familiar 9 November 1986
  • The Right Colour 1 September 1986
  • Bullying at School 13 October 1986
  • Drugs 17July 1986
  • Theories 23 June 1986
  • Songs 7 May1986
  • English Old Saying 29 April 1986
  • Gagaku and the Emperor’s New Clothes 16th September 1985
  • Lateness May 1985
  • Social Conventions – Expected and Unexpected March 1985
  • This way and that 21 January 1985
  • Failing and Passing Examinations July 1984
  • Seeing from Abroad 28 May 1984  
  • Broadcasts 7 May 1984
  • Reversal into the Opposite 20 February 1984
  • Opposite effects 18 February 1984
  • Public Reading 6 February 1984
  • Top Ten Music 24 January 1984
  • Ghost Story December 1987
  • Unlikeliest 20 March 1988
  • Foreigners who speak the Language
  • Folksong Spring 1988
  • Sherlock Holmes Science April 1988
  • Double Indemnity 29 May 1988
  • Kindness to the Aged 26 June 1988
  • Parent-Child 10 April 1988
  • Chosen Ones 6 March 1988
  • Medical credibility 17 March 1980
  • The Other Faith 3 March 1980
  • Original thoughts June 1981
  • Charms 1 June 1981
  • Face October 1981
  • Predictability 24 August 1981
  • Animal intelligence 17 August 1981
  • Standards 14 December 1981
  • What is That For? 13 November 1981
  • Smartest? 4 January 1981
  • Description 15 June1981
  • As luck would have it. 9 March 1981
  • Old Newspapers
  • Broken Traditions Discredited 16 July 1988
  • Kindness to the old
  • Doing one’s own job 6 December 1987
  • Understanding radiation August 1988
  • We contradict ourselves by our actions September 1988
  • Words are coming back 21 August 1988
  • Japanese people
  • A new law of physics 19 April 1982
• Category: Long talks
  • The Original Face
  • The Soft and the Hard
  • The direction of the quest
  • The Five Hindrances
  • Notes and Anecdotes (1989)
  • Seeking the Self
  • OM and Meditation
  • The Self
  • The Yogic Teachings on Austerity and Self-Discipline
  • Yoga and the Goal of Self-Realisation
  • Tips and Icebergs
  • Shruti Truths
  • Time for Listening, Time for Learning
  • Practical Yoga
  • The Bashkala Upanishad
  • Heaven Wins
  • Madhusudan on the Bhagavad Gita
  • The Principles of Karma Yoga
  • Shankara on the Self
  • The Yoga of Patanjali
  • Bhagavad Gita – Paths of Action and Knowledge
  • Three Upanishadic Riddles – Part 1
  • Three Upanishadic Riddles – Part 2
  • Three Upanishadic Riddles – Part 3
  • The Ways
  • The Way before Buddhism
  • The Yoga of Kings
  • Tradition of the Ways
  • The Power beyond the Mind (Part 3)
  • The Power beyond the Mind (Part 2)
  • On the Seashore of Endless Worlds
  • The breeze hammering at the door
  • Upanishadic Wisdom
  • Meteors and Stars
  • Shankara on the Yoga Sutras
  • The Inner Sun
  • The Space within the Heart
  • The Spur
  • Tokusai on Sword and Mind
  • Zen and Christianity
  • Sparks from the Heart Flint
  • The Stone Sermon
  • Yoga, Zen and Peace (part 2)
  • Yoga, Zen and Peace (part 1)
  • The magic power of the Lord
  • Yajnavalkya
  • How to regulate our actions in ordinary life
  • Karma Yoga Transformation 
  • Mind Power
  • Questions and answers after a talk
  • The Moon’s Reflection
  • The Mandukya Upanishad
  • Shri Dada’s Main Teachings
  • The Chapter of the Self
  • Smacking Down the Waves
  • Shooting Beyond Darkness 2
  • Shooting Beyond Darkness 3
  • Shooting Beyond Darkness 1
  • Robes of Honour
  • Raja Yoga
  • The Riddle of Rainbow Worlds
  • Piercing the Blazing Jewel
  • On attitudes
  • Obstacles in the Practice
  • Notes April 1999
  • New Discoveries in the Yoga Sutras
  • My Own Special Path
  • Meditation Practices
  • Polishing the Mirror of the Mind
  • Meditation and Inspiration
  • Meditation and action
  • Knocking on Stone Doors
  • Kamakura Koans
  • Inspiration and Energy from Yoga Practice
  • Face-to-Face
  • Early Zen in Japan
  • Early Indian Mahayana Buddhism
  • Getting beneath the mask
  • Keeping the practice alive
  • Reducing casual thoughts (Q&A)
  • Yoga practice (Q&A)
  • Yoga practice
  • Bhagavad Gita – the Yoga of despondency
  • Bhagavad Gita Chapters 7 and 8
  • Becoming a thing
  • A Zen Way
  • Divine Streams Make the Desert Bloom
  • He kills not the Self by the self.
  • Spiritual life
• Category: Lotus Lake, Dragon Pool
  • Lotus lake Dragon Pool dedication and introduction
  • The Magistrate
  • Do Good
  • Self-Examination
  • Last Words
  • Anger
  • Habits
  • Honour
  • Prayers Answered
  • Proclaimed Wisdom
  • The Judge
  • Tail, No Tail
  • Power
  • Obedience
  • Holy Ceremony
  • Handshake
  • Prescriptions
  • Excuses
  • Test Not
  • Giving Up Illusion
  • Fire Stages
  • In the Courtyard
  • Dream-Fair
  • Fireworks
  • The Swimmer
  • Mistakes
  • Too Good
  • Turtle
  • One Step, Twenty Steps
  • Warning
  • Hypnosis
  • The Procession
  • The Well
  • Remembering
  • Reverence
  • Humble
  • Racing Dive
  • Devil, Devil
  • All Different
  • Seeds
  • Emptying
  • Silence
  • Mu in Prison
  • How Much
  • The Mantra-Sayer
  • Notes
  • Faith
  • The Part
  • Hero
  • Jobs
  • Good
  • Cat and Dog
  • Shooting Arrows
  • Trick
  • Gardens
  • Independence
  • Gone Away
  • The idea of ghosts
  • The Pond
  • Fallacy Somewhere
  • Dark Spotlight
  • Spitting
  • Cleaning
  • Time, Time
  • The Blue Mountains
  • Paid For
  • Triumph
  • To the Last Drop
  • Wisdom Water
  • Channel
  • Pearls
  • Interlaced Trees
  • The Singing Eggs
  • The Pillar
  • Unseen
  • Lotus Lake, Dragon Pool credits
• Category: Meditation
  • Three days meditation on OM
  • How translations vary
  • How to run a six-week meditation class by Trevor Leggett
  • Light Meditation
  • Meditation and Hypnosis
  • Strength of Yoga
  • OM Mantram
  • Om Meditation practices
  • Spiritual force
  • An example of spiritual inspiration
  • Meditation in the Zen Tradition
  • Become like a Buddha for a time
  • Meditation and prolonged silence of the soul
  • “The Spur” is the title of an essay by Torei
  • The doctrine that everything is transient
  • The facing inward of the Buddhas
  • Keep up the right line of the meditation
  • You practise with courage and sincerity
  • Picture of Bodhidharma
  • The new thought is identical with the previous thought
  • Think in short waves
  • In meditation repetition is not the same as practice
  • Sitting on the hilltop under the blue sky.
  • Line of Light practice and meditation on a text
  • The Line of light practice
  • A few thoughts on a meditation practice
  • Sit on a hilltop under the blue sky
  • Meditation on OM, is not just the repetition of it, but also meditation on its meaning
  • The natural postures for meditation and for worship
  • Remove the quilt of Samsara and space becomes shining
  • OM meditation practice programme for one day
  • Meditation in Crisis
  • In a life crisis meditate properly
  • In both Yoga and Zen a time of crisis is a good basis for meditation
  • Shankara on the Yoga Sutras for Yoga Practise
  • Yoga Sutras for Yoga Practice
  • Om for realization of the Self
  • Meditations on four feelings
  • Radiant forms meditation
  • Meditation on a mind free from passion
  • Meditation on the chosen form
  • Mastery in Samadhi is when the mind can be steadied
  • How To Use Realization of the Supreme Self for Yoga Practice
  • Inner Training
  • The Pole Star Within
  • The inner compass shows itself when the mind is calmed
  • A time of crisis is a good basis for meditation
  • Paramatman is always in the peace and clarity of samadhi
  • Practice makes perfect, but one has to be a perfect practiser
  • Our basic nature can be changed, but not by sudden force
  • Meditate on patience, calm, and serenity
  • Bring the mind to serenity at the heart centre for two hours a day
  • By meditation, that which is hidden becomes manifest
  • Swami Rama Tirtha on Samadhi
  • Individual self expands finally into the Universal Self
  • Scriptures change the lives of those who hear them
  • The Tibetan prayer wheel enclosed a minimal scripture
  • Kena Upanishad If you think you know it well, then little indeed you know
  • Those dominated by instinctive impulses often claim to be freely enjoying them
  • Extraverts find it difficult to remain alert
  • Silence can deepen into an almost tangible peace
  • The karma-mirror
  • Action on individual and cosmic planes
  • Meditate and some way will suggest itself
  • The buddhi can reflect cosmic purpose
  • The power to discard unwanted thoughts
  • Telepathy in Japanese Chess
  • Manifesting the Way in martial arts
  • In meditation a higher dharma stands out
  • Goodwill towards virtue is a great spiritual quality
  • Compassion towards suffering
  • Inspiration is attained through meditation
  • Christian Meditation increases awareness of divine purpose
  • A Visit to a Zen Temple
• Category: Q&A
  • Acting and Dreaming
  • Realization:  I Am Universal Atman
  • Ramana Maharshi about the Guru’s gaze
  • Questions on Zen and Christianity
  • Zen and Christianity (responses to questions)
  • Questions on Yoga and Zen
  • Try a change after getting stale
  • Is Zen training OK for the West?
  • Zen & Gita Q&A 1 01.08.1984
  • Zen & Gita Q&A 2 01.08.1984
  • Spiritual River in the human heart – Part two Q and A
  • How can books do anything for spiritual hunger?
  • Our daily bread
  • Why have all these Sanskrit words?
  • Kalpas and creation
  • Limits and freedom
  • Pride and Egoism
  • Numbers
  • Is Yoga dangerous?
  • Hit back
  • Blue Cloud
  • Interpreting old texts for modern times
  • On no basis
  • Experiments on consciousness
  • Causality in the events of the world
  • The idea of transmigration
  • Why are we expected to study philosophy of yoga?
  • Hypnotised Virtue
  • Sufferings are an opportunity for us to make good karma ourselves
  • The self ought to be more apparent
  • Does some element of the personality survive the death of the body?
  • When desire is not subject to control it is an obstacle
  • Is not Yoga unnatural? It tries to restrain instincts such as eating and sex
  • The words in the old texts are not simply old things
  • Is Buddhism against life?
  • After a year practising on one line isn’t there a danger of getting stale?
  • A holy text leads us on the way
  • The depths of the mind are not changed by what we do on the surface
  • The main distinctions between Vedanta and Zen
  • The place of emotion in Yoga and Zen in the form of questions and answers
• Category: Short talks
  • There are five subtle elements
  • The world is a projection
  • Consciousness underlies all
  • Meditation on OM
  • Bhagavad Gita 15:11, Katha Upanishad 1:2:23 and the Mundaka Upanishad 3:2:3
  • Mental poison in the world
  • Spiritual energy springs up
  • Strength of Knowledge
  • Penetrate deeply into truth
  • Magnetic mind
  • Kobo Daishi made a new alphabet
  • People sell themselves cheap
  • The five hindrances are desire, anger, sloth, restlessness, and doubt
  • Hidden hindrances
  • Anger is a hindrance
  • Restlessness and doubt are hindrances
  • Bringing the mind to steadiness
  • Making our thoughts fewer
  • Finding God in ourselves
  • Our thoughts become controlled
  • Radiance at the back of the mind
  • Radiance at the heart of every atom
  • St Francis and Ōta Dōkan
  • Inspiration comes with its own energy
  • Our inner Self
  • Our fears can be illusory
  • The purification of the memory
  • The eighth consciousness
  • A flash of God-vision is affirmed by meditation on the Self
  • Om practice
  • Cherry blossoms
  • Fingers are the methods
  • Imitations do not lead to anything
  • The trees on Mount Ibuka
  • Collected Stories
  • Egoism or Pride
  • Christianity was put down in Japan
  • Fifty-two stages of Buddhism
  • You are caught in technique
  • I have nothing
  • Advance in emptiness
  • Finding cosmic purpose
  • Ethics and the Cosmic Self
  • Desires beyond our needs are ghosts
  • Gifts, sacrifice and austerity
  • The merchant’s way
  • The job of the King
  • Seeking for realisation in Yoga and Zen
  • The way of praying in the cosmic current
  • Melting Ice
  • No distinction
  • The gunas
  • Patanjali and Sattva
  • Transform Tamas and Rajas into Sattva
  • Don’t think in long waves. Think in short waves.
  • Intense karma fructifies quickly
  • Patanjali and meditation on God
  • The Power of the Mind
  • A fundamental practice of yoga
  • Spirit is independent of the body
  • One of the programmes of Yoga
  • A Pole Star Within
  • Holy texts give us general principles
  • The riddle of the Self
  • Shankara’s Path
  • Restrain the senses first
  • Mind must be purified
  • Yama and Niyama
  • Killing the Self
  • The Spiritual Teacher in the Gita
  • Maya is a magical illusion
  • The world is like a dream
  • Withdraw the senses
  • Extraverts and Introverts 1
  • Extraverts and Introverts 2
  • Extraverts and Introverts 3
  • A spiritual man has peace
  • Man moves cosmic energy
  • Even a small kindness is a great blessing
  • In Samadhi the mind comes to a stop
  • Prarabdha karma wears thin
  • Spiritual truth is being poured into you
  • We are seeing shapes of light
  • Seeds of truth
  • Practices are directed inwardly
  • The yoga of action
  • Be independent of results
  • Direct practice of meditation on the Lord
  • Gospel of Peace According to Lord Buddha
  • He said, “I had real power once”
  • Throw away the thoughts as they come up
  • Gospel of Peace According to Lord Buddha (Questions and Answers)
  • Something will be transmitted, unconsciously (Questions & Answers)
  • Teaching and learning (Questions & Answers)
  • Types of Meditation (Questions & Answers)      
  • Melting the Ice and Fists
  • What is the Buddha?
  • A yard of teaching, one foot of practice
  •  We deny it’s a thing
  • Early Indian Buddhism
  • Terrific austerities are condemned
  • Buddhists developed strong logic
  • Ashoka’s Dhamma
  • The Need of the World
  • Evil in the world
  • Learning how to handle one’s own heart
  • Don’t depend on connections in the world
  • Creativity in Life
  • Meditate on the cosmic purpose
  • Change the roots of consciousness
  • Progressive Meditation: The Five Sheaths
  • Yoga’s experiments are made in consciousness
  • Yogic meditation is to go deeper
  • Cosmic intelligence integrates the universe
  • The universe is bliss and light
  • How is this going to apply to ourselves?
  • Progressive Meditation. The Riddle.
  • Practise meditation every morning
  • Purify and organise the mind and body
  • A system of training the mind
  • Overcoming pain of body and mind
  • Independence of outer things
  • Change of Consciousness
  • Practise calm endurance
  •  Study of ones own self, Svadhyaya
  • Mysticism of the Heart 3: Upadhi or false association
  • Samadhi: Meditation in its radiant form
  • Meditation can change the consciousness of the world
  • To free the holy truth we practice by ourselves
  • Mysticism of the heart 2: Shri Dada meets the sceptics
  • The vibrations of Shri Rama
  • Samskaras are dynamic latent impressions
  • Remove your own intense body consciousness
  • How to stop a thought
  • Points and hints 1
  • Marionettes are referred to in the Gita
  • We are whirled by Maya like Marionettes
  • Habitual likers and dislikers of illusion
  • Mysticism of the Heart: Finding the main teaching
  • Study the nature of yourself
  • The Cosmic Plan: discipline yourself, pray, study and meditate
  • Calm the buddhi for peace and clear vision
  • Meditate on the form of the Lord
  • Break out of the Mind Cage
  • No distinction, no discrimination
  • Evenness of mind and skill in action
  • People who can’t see the great Self
  • By practice the great Self can be seen
  • Teaching of devotion
  • Bhagavad Gita 03.04.1991
  • There is a Self which is immortal
  • Reincarnation is beautiful doctrine
  • Strong passions and fears
  • Follow the teacher’s instructions for the Yoga training
  • Shankara on the sun in the water
  • You will succeed in all you do
  • An illustration of the state of man
  • Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawing of the sun and mirror
  • Damascus 1977 – Yoga and Zen training
  • Meditation on the navel
  • Yaza is real devotion
  • Not in Samadhi all the time
  • The glories of Zen in Japan
  • Disillusionment in society
  • Yoga and Zen in Christianity
  • Universal Law
  • Theories cannot actually be lived through
  • Teach me Brahman
  • Ananda spoke to the Buddha
  • Rainbow worlds of Swami Mangalnath
  • Quantum reality and Yoga analysis
  • The basis of physics burst wide open
  • World as an illusion
  • Powerful effects of the unreal
  • Yogas of the Gita are Yogas for when life is in crisis
  • What does ‘non-attachment to the results’ mean?
  • The first element in Karma Yoga
  • There should be some creative expression
  • Inspiration in Science
  • The Cat and the Krait
  • The Confucian and Bertrand Russell
  • Judo Experience – Zen & More Stories
  • Finding inspiration in everyday things
  • Go into the peace of your practices
  • The doctrine of the void
  • From emptiness inspiration will come
  • A Summer School talk by Trevor Leggett 7 August 1985
  • Karma – Kill Not the Self
  • Cohesion of the universe
  • Within man there is the great Lord
  • Kill Not the Self – Karma
  • The true self is unseen
  • Having a theory and confirming it
  • The wise man should act, but unattached
  • Realisation of the Supreme Self talk
  • Life needs a conductor
  • We must study some theory
  • Half-Gods and Gods
  • Worshipping lesser gods
  • Remove illusions by study
  • Yoga is described
  • The yogi casts off good and bad deeds
  • Tradition and Inspiration
  • Bhagavad Gita morality is self-training
  • Seeking for something to worship
  • Arguments for good and bad are endless
  • What is good and what is bad
  • Yajnavalkya Outside the Upanishad
  • Know what is the central teaching
  • Shri Dada was called the Saint Universal
  • Karma is waiting for you
  • Free from the desire for things
  • Attempts to do good are counter-productive
  • Christianity and Yoga
  • The Gospel to the Hebrews
  • You see me in yourselves as in a clear mirror
  • The parable contains a riddle
  • The Woman caught committing adultery
  • Yoga in Troubled Times
  • We are whirled by Maya
  • We are controlled by our illusions
  • Indulgence in the objects of the senses is the enemy
  • Shankara says we are puppets
  • The highest service
  • Stone Sermon
  • Jizo, the stone child
  • We sweep up the leaves
  • Brahma Viharas
  • Ananda asked the Buddha
  • Meditation in Action
  • The Lord is a companion
  • Three sentences which Shri Dada gave
  • The beginning of a new spring
  • The Main Teachings of Shri Dada
  • End ignorance or be engulfed by it
  • Verily all this is Brahman
  • Life is too short to risk half measures
  • Flowers showered upon you
  • The Torch of Eternal Truth
  • Hearts of Religion
  • There is a problem in religion
  • Bayazid, the Sufi mystic
  • The Self is what is confronts God
  • Keep on keeping on
  • Sword and Mind
  • Give up all idea of winning
  • Get people to practise
  • Freedom from reactions and endless planning
  • The Lohan figure
  • Make the mind empty
  • Cut off before and after
  • Approaches to Yoga and Meditation
  • Yoga not is meant for trivialities of life
  • Truths can be found
  • Purify your own mind
  • He sees, who sees the Lord
  • The Flower of the Heart
  • Pointing directly to the human heart
  • The concealment of realisation
  • Reaction from the universe
  • You cannot live on sweets
  • Some essential thing is missing
  • Naming a thing is not knowing it
  • Loosening the Knot of the Heart
  • Swetaketu was a naughty boy
  • Flexibility is life and rigidity is death
  • Vasanas and sanskaras govern human lives
  • New discoveries are made by young men
  •   They become copyrights and lose their inspiration
  • The Supreme Self is to be meditated upon
  • The laws of nature are controlled from within
  • Brahman makes the mind creative
  • Mandukya Upanishad
  • You have to worship
  • To meditate on a fact is not creating an illusion
  • The luminous inner sphere of Tejas
  • The source of Inspiration
  • Our personalities can be purified
  • Thoughts come from the Karana-Sharira
  • Clear the mind and light will shine through
  • Inspiration of Pauling, Helmholz, Russell, and Poincaré
  • Word Clouds and Realities
  • One method of teaching by Shankaracharya is superimposition
  • Yoga theories can be verified by experiment
  • Intensity of enquiry enables transformation
  • Theories may be propounded but cannot be lived through
  • The Great Lord seated in the body
  • Vedanta is supported by very carefully reasoned arguments
  • Beyond the tangle of words
  • The Bhagavad Gita takes us beyond words
  • The world illusion is called Maya and it is projected  by the Lord
  • Little by little, reduce thoughts and words
  • The projection of the world is the very nature of God
  • A Hundred Hearings. Not Like One Seeing
  • The only way to win is to forget
  • We think by breaking rules we shall get freedom
  • Worldly people aim at triumph, spiritual people aim at success
  • The Transformation of Karma Yoga
  • Janaka had samyag darshana – right vision of the Self
  • Karma Yoga has the three elements and they’re based on the buddhi
  • It is impossible for the karma yogi to practise Jnana Yoga
  • A certain man was crying ‘Allah’ all night
  • The seeds of karma are laid down by what we do
  • Naming and understanding
  • Kobo never chooses the brush
  • The true nature of man is that he wants to create beauty
  • Yoga and Zen both say we can begin to see and express beauty
  • Yoga and the Zen training points to what’s in our heart
  • Release from illusory bonds of identity with body and mind
  • First you will speak to God. Then God will speak to you
  • The Bhagavad Gita has a programme of karma yoga
  • How is inspiration going to come into daily life
  • People who are regarded as fools
  • We’ve become so bored and boring
  • What is the Soul?
  • In the Bhagavad Gita there are three kinds of Tapas
  • A message from The Beloved
• Category: Society
  • Training in Education
  • Worldly advantage
  • When the archer misses the target he doesn’t blame the target
  • Fatalism – Apathetics Anonymous
  • Famous magistrate Ōoka Tadasuke
  • The Japanese Way of Learning and Teaching
  • The Gentleman does not swagger
  • The Post-Beatles Generation and English quality of life
  • Looking back over Victorian Times and English quality of life
  • The Ideal of Balance and English quality of life
  • The Gentleman Ideal and English quality of life
  • The Public School System and English quality of life
  • My Husband and I and English quality of life
  • English Quality of Life and ways in which British people think and act
  • Japanese Logic from the English Heart of Tradition
  • Warukuchi from the English Heart of Tradition
  • It Likes That from the English Heart of the Tradition
  • North-South-East-West from the English Heart of Tradition
  • Losing to Oneself from the English Heart of Tradition
  • Cruel to be Kind from the English Heart of Tradition
  • Social Conventions and Surprises from the English Heart of Tradition
  • Consideration for Strangers from the English Heart of Tradition
  • English Heart of Tradition Foreword
  • The Japanese way of thinking and the talking Dog.
  • The Japanese way of thinking and pull and push
  • The Japanese way of thinking and Chin
  • The Japanese way of thinking and international images
  • Trevor Leggett talks in 1976 to Japanese students about English views of the French and the Germans
  • The Spirit of Fair Play and Sportsmanship
  • Observations
  • Adhyatma Yoga is not Escapism
  • It was thought that human society was evolving from lower to higher forms
  • Shogi and Western Chess
• Category: Stories
  • GHOST STORY 3 July 1984
  • Stories are used in spiritual schools
  • The Yogin and the Magician
  • The Story of Raikva
  • The Lord is in the heart of every being
  • The Preface to Encounters in Yoga and Zen
  • The Introduction to Encounters in Yoga and Zen
  • Voluntary actions produce an effect in this or future lives
  • We named it and now it’s known and is correspondingly supposed to be understood
  • The old woman and the pencil stub
  • The King
  • Meditation on the colour blue calms the mind
  • You can’t expect a man in chains to do anything
  • These people will never understand the spirit of Tea
  • The doctrine of the will of God
  • There is no God other than the higher self of man
  • Do things well. But not very well.
  • No one listened to the hare’s story
  • The Way of Heaven has no love for him
  • The heart of the giver must be pure
  • Meditation on the Dharma-world
  • A cross chosen is not a true cross
  • Neither cast ye your pearls before swine
  • Acquire freedom from strong reactions to the events of daily life
  • If a thing’s karma is to perish, it must perish
  • Is there a fourth truth, which you have not declared?
  • The blind man and the bridge
  • The Pure Land of Amitābha
  • He knew a tremendous lot of Vedanta
  • The Buddha-nature in all is always perfect
  • Making amusing but biting comments at the expense of others
  • He never again lost his temper in public
  • And how do you think you have done?
  • Samsara is Nirvana, the passions are enlightenment
  • Worldly capital and Spiritual capital
• Category: Teaching points
  • Knowledge of the Future
  • Doctrine of perception
  • Cleaning the Table
  • Genes
  • Mencius
  • To Forgive
  • Unconscious tensions
  • Unreal becomes Real
  • Patient endurance
  • Welcome – Well Come and Falling Snow
  • Shruti and quantum physics
  • Expanded consciousness
  • Self-deception bolsters itself with reasons
  • Self-deception
  • God will not do by miracles what we can do for ourselves
  • Humility
  • The Seller of Pears
  • The handing on of a succession in some tradition
  • Upanishad refers to sitting beside the teacher
  • The spiritual course must not become infected with worldly associations
  • The gift of things, the gift of courage, and the gift of wisdom
  • Speak out the truth fearlessly regardless of consequences
  • Words of love are not necessarily kindly words
  • Frightening people into silence is not real strength
  • Sermons by Oka Kyugaku
  • The ordinary man becomes a Buddha
  • He spent hours in devotion and prayer but there was never any response
  • Doctrines of meditation and realisation in words
  • We are often impressed by things we don’t fully understand
  • When you find that you are becoming respected and honoured, that’s the time to leave’
  • It is best not to be on the heights, but to be down below where you can have things and keep them.
  • Many of the so‑called honours in fact are false
  • Eastern doctrines reject the absolute reality of the world
  • They were outwitted through their impulsive greed for the food.
  • Illumined teachers communicate the cosmic purpose
  • A life which has been shaped and polished so that it’s true nature begins to appear
  • Note of Hand
  • The aged dictator of Spain was dying
  • There is another kind of long life
  • The third stage of ingratitude is a couplet by the 13th century Persian poet Saadi of Shiraz
  • Ikkyu was a famous Zen priest and poet , who was sometimes overwhelmed by sexual desire
  • Dogen brought Soto Zen from China to Japan
  • In the mind when there is no control, two or three obstinate thought-feelings can become locked in a struggle
  • Here is a battle unsought; completely unselfish, for a warrior that is an open door to heaven
  • Repeat OM slowly, meditating that it means the universal self
  • The eye races over the well-known phrases, and much is missed
  • The great Self takes on itself the illusion of the succession of bodies
  • Share the beauty of your treasures and you will not regret them if they go
  • Sense experiences during meditation
  • To have inner voices is regarded as a symptom of dysfunction
  • The ultimate independence of Self-realization
  • The mind can be taken as the bucket of water
  • When we are young we often have a keen sense of right and wrong
  • Some scholars study texts in which they have no interest whatever in the real meaning
  • Prepare oneself to throw away gain and loss, life and death
  • Bird-man and Earth-man
  • There is no response from the True Face within
  • The Power of Formlessness
  • Speaking with no artificiality or insincerity
  • Meditation itself will take over and then it will begin to shine forth
  • His mind had not yet been loosened to recognise the cosmic plane
  • Bristles of egoism and pride and self-satisfaction and conceit and ambition
  • The Anti-Sermon of No Words
  • Passing moods are to be treated like clothes
  • A vigorous spiritual vitality is the spring that waters all the fields
  • Many ideas are absorbed into the cosmic purpose
  • Knowing the Future
  • Can mere silence can be a lie?
  • The central purpose of a directed life
  • They finally react to imaginary slights and so on.
  • Old people have a significant role to play, and some of them find it.
  • The Lord says, he thinks more of his beard than of Me
  • Life Rage
  • Paper Belief
  • Movement, No Movement
  • Limitations on the Avatar
  • The Cure
  • The Cave
  • Pioneers and Scavengers
  • Falling In Love
  • Free Fall
  • Competition
  • A Prince Reprimanded
  • Wisdom for Kings from the Vishnu Purana
  • Have mercy on yourself
  • Saubhari and Samnada from the Vishnu Purana
  • Thrust From The Classics
  • He was regarded as the embodiment of justice
  • Truce and Peace
  • Two Hooks
  • First order or last order
  • Money and fame
  • Memory: exercise not burden
  • Reduce your mistakes
  • A Zen Story
  • Last Words for a disciple
  • Gift No Gift
  • Blue Cloth
  • The Magistrate
  • When someone takes one step towards the Lord
  • How spiritual people behave
  • Emptying the mind in Zen
  • A Friend in Need
  • Illusion has no Rules
  • Only One Way
  • Practice
  • Doing Good as against Not Doing Harm
  • Words of Love
  • Unsteadiness
  • If you’re going to die, die quick!
  • Spiritual Schools
  • He won’t allow notes while he’s speaking
  • Lions and Tigers
• Category: Training stories
  • Beauty with a Purpose
  • A life poisoned by Envy
  • The Third Don’t Know
  • Samurai Poetry
  • One Dharma – a thousand words
  • Mist and Rain
  • Final Penalty
  • Unless roots of spiritual conviction have been put down, the whole structure is hollow and falls to pieces
  • Sengai’s auspicious words
  • The business of the world is carried on by unreal things
  • Life structure falls to pieces without spiritual conviction
  • Sanskrit verse first and then the English translation.
  • Yogic methods dissolve illusions
  • Spiritually young
  • Put yourself vividly in the presence of the spiritual figure you are worshipping and hold yourself there.
  • Rational thinking cannot easily overturn unconscious attitudes
  • Love must not be confused with exclusiveness
  • Frankly declare own self interest and then negotiate
  • Advice in the Extremity of Need
  • Most spiritual training schools stress the importance of a sangha or community
  • Should they do their first training with the sword or with the spear?
  • In an expansion of some faculty, there is a sense of joy
  • If the flint of the heart can be struck skilfully, it may produce a flash of inspiration
  • Shaku Soyen gives Suzuki hidden help with the koan
  • For a complete change, you have to change yourself too
  • There are no ghosts except those that haunt the human mind
  • Practise meditation yourself to meet a real need
  • The Ethical Bazaar
  • Dragon Head, Snake Tail
  • Seeing The Unseen
  • No-name bridge
  • In Sojiji temple there is a picture of Nansen killing a cat
  • They are indeed praying for him – to die.
  • When individuality is transcended there is a cosmic effect
  • They do not have the support to stand on and enjoy the last laugh
  • Personal success is swallowed up by the gradually revealed greatness of what they are practising
  • God never seems to be at home
  • Enthusiastic students were told the story of Kyogen
  • It takes a long time before Life forgives us for our own imitations
  • The Blotch made by Zen Master Shido Bunan
  • Money has nothing to do with the Truth
  • There is something, not a sin, which often can’t be forgiven
  • Giving up a bad habit by making it difficult
  • Don’t make ugly faces at the karma-mirror
  • Why had the teacher hesitated for so long?
  • On the in-breath breathe in freedom and with the out-breath throw away worldly concerns.
  • Compassion is catching
  • Intensity of practice is nothing to do with time
  • Life poisoned by envy of something imagined
  • Anger need not have lasting effect
  • First Principle was brushed by the great priest Ingen
  • Sake Wine and Samadhi
  • Satan
  • Leaves and Moss
  • Stories
• Category: Trevor Leggett
  • Stages in Trevor Leggett’s life
  • A Year With Trevor Leggett
  • Trevor Pryce Leggett
  • About Trevor Leggett
  • Trevor Leggett, a brief CV
  • Trevor Leggett: My spiritual friend
  • Michael O’Neill remembers Trevor Leggett
  • Afternoons spent with Trevor Leggett
  • My friendship with Trevor Leggett
• Category: User reviews
  • A user review by Nigel Sutton
• Category: Yoga and Christ
  • Yoga and Christianity
  • In Christianity, we can see the inspiration of service in its full glory
  • A yogi might be directed to make bhavana on the Good Samaritan story
  • Christ’s appearances were not hallucinations, but forms assumed by the Lord for his devotees
  • Yoga makes its own experiments. It investigates consciousness directly
  • Early converts were disadvantaged
  • A heavenly realm resembling a vast eagle
  • Degeneration into a personality cult
  • All bodily mortifications and other exercises are useless
  • Man ignores the spiritual Reality within him
  • The main doctrines of the Upanishads, by a careful Christian student of them
  • Our own consciousness is not other than the Christ consciousness
  • Counsels on the manners of men and the good life
  • Adhyatma Yoga and Psychiatry
  • Overlooking or disregarding sin
  • Studying Christian Texts
• Category: Yoga in flashes
  • Adhyatma Yoga is very little physical
  • Yoga is very much psychological
  • Spiritual aspirants acquire defects of character
  • The Self must be freed from the world and its attractions
  • Symbolic illusion will disappear one day
  • Yoga practice is a way through the world-illusion
  • To be a realist, overcome realism
  • In the world joy is often the accompaniment of triumph
  • Merit can be a binding force
  • Political freedom can express the soul of a people
  • Goodness is the inner side of spiritual merit
  • Evil is a tight form of bondage
  • Dharma is realised by performance of one’s moral and spiritual duty, without desire
  • Fly spiritually shut your eyes and grow wings
  • It will happen; it is a moral law.
  • Strenuous cultivation of dispassionate serenity of the mind under all circumstances
  • To stand free in one’s subjective being.
  • Jealousy of spiritual success
  • Distress includes physical needs, but in yoga these needs are simple.
  • Yoga does not mean a change of faith
• Category: Yoga Sutras
  • Acknowledgements for Shankara on the Yoga Sutras
  • Foreword to Shankara on the Yoga Sutras
  • Shankara on the Yoga Sutras – Salutations and colophon
  • Shankara on the Yoga Sutras First Part: Samadhi
  • Shankara on the Yoga Sutras Second Part: Means
  • Shankara on the Yoga Sutras Third Part: Glory
  • Shankara on the Yoga Sutras Fourth Part: Transcendental Aloneness
  • Shankara on the Yoga Sutras Introduction for the general reader
  • Yoga Sutra 1.01 the exposition of yoga
  • Yoga Sutra 1.02 Yoga is inhibition of the mental processes
  • Yoga Sutra 1.03 the Seer is established in his own nature
  • Yoga Sutra 1.04 there is only one sight, and the sight is knowledge alone.
  • Yoga Sutra 1.05 the mental processes are of five kinds
  • Yoga Sutra 1.06 right knowledge, illusion, logical construction, sleep, memory
  • Yoga Sutra 1.07 right knowledge is either direct perception, inference, or authority
  • Yoga Sutra 1.08 Illusion is false knowledge based on an untrue form
  • Yoga Sutra 1.09 logical construction is something that follows on verbal knowledge
  • Yoga Sutra 1.10 the mental process which rests on the notion of non-existence is sleep
  • Yoga Sutra 1.11 memory is not letting slip away an object experienced
  • Yoga Sutra 1.12 inhibition is by practice and detachment
  • Yoga Sutra 1.13 practice is the effort at steadiness
  • Yoga Sutra 1.14 practised for a long time, uninterruptedly and with reverence, it becomes firmly grounded
  • Yoga Sutra 1.15 detachment is consciousness of self-mastery
  • Yoga Sutra 1.16 from knowledge of Purusa there is no thirst for the gunas
  • Yoga Sutra 1.17 something physical as the mind’s object of meditation
  • Yoga Sutra 1.18 samadhi follows on practice of the idea of stopping, and consists of samskaras alone
  • Yoga Sutra 1.19 samadhi is of two kinds
  • Yoga Sutra 1.20 faith, energy, memory, samadhi, and knowledge
  • Yoga Sutra 1.21 the yogis are of nine kinds
  • Yoga Sutra 1.22 samadhi and the fruit of samadhi
  • Yoga Sutra 1.23 special devotion to the Lord
  • Yoga Sutra 1.24 the Lord is a special kind of Purusa
  • Yoga Sutra 1.25 the seed of omniscience becomes transcendent
  • Yoga Sutra 1.26 time as a measure does not apply to the Lord
  • Yoga Sutra 1.27 pranava
  • Yoga Sutra 1.28 japa and bhavana on the Lord
  • Yoga Sutra 1.29 realization of the separate consciousness
  • Yoga Sutra 1.30 distractions of the mind are the obstacles
  • Yoga Sutra 1.31 pain is that by which living beings are struck down,
  • Yoga Sutra 1.32 practise meditation on one principle
  • Yoga Sutra 1.33 the mind is made clear by meditation
  • Yoga Sutra 1.34 expulsion and retention of prana
  • Yoga Sutra 1.35 supernormal perception of a divine object brings the mind to steadiness
  • Yoga Sutra 1.36 radiant perception beyond sorrow
  • Yoga Sutra 1.37 meditation on freedom from passion
  • Yoga Sutra 1.38 meditating on the knowledge of dream and sleep
  • Yoga Sutra 1.39 meditation on what appeals to him
  • Yoga Sutra 1.40 mastery extends right to the ultimate atom
  • Yoga Sutra 1.41 samapatti identification-in-samadhi samapatti
  • Yoga Sutra 1.42 samadhi-identification is called sa-vitarka when it is mixed up with mental constructs
  • Yoga Sutra 1.43 nir-vitarka samadhi
  • Yoga Sutra 1.44 sa-vicara identification refers to subtle elements,
  • Yoga Sutra 1.45 subtlety of objects ends in pradhana
  • Yoga Sutra 1.46 samadhi from a seed
  • Yoga Sutra 1.47 skill in nir-vicara, a clearness in the self
  • Yoga Sutra 1.48 the knowledge is Truth-bearing
  • Yoga Sutra 1.49 the scripture that deals only with universals
  • Yoga Sutra 1.50 the samskara produced by truth-bearing knowledge
  • Yoga Sutra 1.51 the samskara of inhibition suppresses the samskaras produced by samadhi
  • Yoga Sutra 2.01 tapas, self-study, devotion to the Lord, are the yoga of action
  • Yoga Sutra 2.02 actualize samadhi and thin out the taints
  • Yoga Sutra 2.03 Ignorance, I-am-ness, desire, hate, instinctive self-preservation, are the taints
  • Yoga Sutra 2.04 ignorance is the place of germination of I-am-ness
  • Yoga Sutra 2.05 Ignorance is the conviction of permanence
  • Yoga Sutra 2.06 purusa is the power of seer buddhi is the power of seeing
  • Yoga Sutra 2.07 desire follows pleasure
  • Yoga Sutra 2.08 hate follows pain
  • Yoga Sutra 2.09 self-preservation is instinctive even in a Knower
  • Yoga Sutra 2.10 when the yogin’s mind has ended its involvement
  • Yoga Sutra 2.11 mental processes arising are got rid of by meditation
  • Yoga Sutra 2.12 the karma-stock to be felt in present or future lives
  • Yoga Sutra 2.13 while the root is there, it will bear the fruit of birth, life span and experience
  • Yoga Sutra 2.14 their fruits are joy and suffering caused by virtue and sin
  • Yoga Sutra 2.15 to the clear-sighted everything is pain alone
  • Yoga Sutra 2.16 the pain not yet come
  • Yoga Sutra 2.17 the Seer is Purusa, witness of the mind buddhi
  • Yoga Sutra 2.18 the Seen consists of the elements and the senses
  • Yoga Sutra 2.19 the three gunas which make up the Seen
  • Yoga Sutra 2.20 the Seer is sight alone; though pure, he looks on at the thoughts
  • Yoga Sutra 2.21 the essence of the Seen is to be for the purpose of him alone
  • Yoga Sutra 2.22 the Seen is ended
  • Yoga Sutra 2.23 awareness of the natures of the two powers, the property and its possessor
  • Yoga Sutra 2.24 its cause is Ignorance avidya
  • Yoga Sutra 2.25 release is Transcendental Aloneness kaivalya of the power-of-sight
  • Yoga Sutra 2.26 unwavering Knowledge-of-the-difference is the means of release
  • Yoga Sutra 2.27 the ultimate state of the Knowledge is seven-fold
  • Yoga Sutra 2.28 destruction of impurity and a growing light of knowledge
  • Yoga Sutra 2.29 the eight methods
  • Yoga Sutra 2.30 harmlessness, truth-speaking, no stealing, brahmacarya, not holding possessions
  • Yoga Sutra 2.31 the Great Vow
  • Yoga Sutra 2.32 purity, contentment, tapas, self-study, and devotion to the Lord
  • Yoga Sutra 2.33 if there is obstruction by contrary ideas, meditation on their opposite
  • Yoga Sutra 2.34 meditation on their opposite
  • Yoga Sutra 2.35 with establishment of harmlessness, in his presence enmity is abandoned
  • Yoga Sutra 2.36 with establishment of truth, events confirm his words
  • Yoga Sutra 2.37 with establishment in non-stealing, all precious things come to him
  • Yoga Sutra 2.38 with establishment in brahmacarya, attainment of energy
  • Yoga Sutra 2.39 with firmness in not possessing property, clear knowledge of the conditions of birth
  • Yoga Sutra 2.40 from purity, distaste for his own body and no intercourse with others
  • Yoga Sutra 2.41 fitness for vision of the self
  • Yoga Sutra 2.42 from contentment, attainment of unsurpassed happiness
  • Yoga Sutra 2.43 from destruction of impurity by tapas, perfection of body and senses
  • Yoga Sutra 2.44 from self-study, communion with the deity of his devotion
  • Yoga Sutra 2.45 from devotion to the Lord, perfection in samādhi
  • Yoga Sutra 2.46 Posture is to be firm and pleasant
  • Yoga Sutra 2.47 samadhi (samapatti) on infinity
  • Yoga Sutra 2.48 he becomes immune to the opposites
  • Yoga Sutra 2.49 cut off the flow of in-breath and out-breath
  • Yoga Sutra 2.50 the fixating operations become long and fine
  • Yoga Sutra 2.51 the fourth pranayama
  • Yoga Sutra 2.52 it destroys the karma which covers up Knowledge-of-the-difference
  • Yoga Sutra 2.53 fitness of the mind for concentrations
  • Yoga Sutra 2.54 the senses assume as it were the nature of mind itself
  • Yoga Sutra 2.55 supreme mastery of the senses
  • Yoga Sutra 3.01 dharana is binding the mind to a place
  • Yoga Sutra 3.02 meditation is continuity of the idea of the meditation
  • Yoga Sutra 3.03 it comes to shine forth as the object alone
  • Yoga Sutra 3.04 the triad – concentration, meditation, and samadhi
  • Yoga Sutra 3.05 the light of knowledge prajna
  • Yoga Sutra 3.06 samadhi has to be done by stages
  • Yoga Sutra 3.07 concentration, meditation, and samadhi
  • Yoga Sutra 3.08 Yoga without the five-fold means of restraints
  • Yoga Sutra 3.09 extravertive saṃskara is overcome
  • Yoga Sutra 3.10 there comes about a peaceful flow of the mind
  • Yoga Sutra 3.11 the destruction of the mind’s dispersiveness
  • Yoga Sutra 3.12 transformation of one-pointedness
  • Yoga Sutra 3.13 transformations of dharma time-phase
  • Yoga Sutra 3.14 indeterminable dharmas is the dharmin
  • Yoga Sutra 3.15 difference of sequence causes the differences of the changes
  • Yoga Sutra 3.16 knowledge of what is past and future
  • Yoga Sutra 3.17 understanding of the cries of all beings
  • Yoga Sutra 3.18 knowledge of previous lives
  • Yoga Sutra 3.19 knowledge of the mind of another
  • Yoga Sutra 3.20 not the field of the samyama
  • Yoga Sutra 3.21 samyama on the form of the body
  • Yoga Sutra 3.22 foreknowledge of death
  • Yoga Sutra 3.23 from samyama on friendliness there arise powers
  • Yoga Sutra 3.24 powers like the power of an elephant
  • Yoga Sutra 3.25 supernormal radiant perception
  • Yoga Sutra 3.26 from samyama on the sun knowledge of the worlds
  • Yoga Sutra 3.27 samyama on the moon
  • Yoga Sutra 3.28 samyama on the Pole Star
  • Yoga Sutra 3.29 on the navel circle, knowledge of the plan of the body
  • Yoga Sutra 3.30 at the pit of the throat, cessation of hunger and thirst
  • Yoga Sutra 3.31 on the tortoise nerve, rigid steadiness
  • Yoga Sutra 3.32 vision of the perfect ones
  • Yoga Sutra 3.33 by supernormal knowledge he knows everything
  • Yoga Sutra 3.34 on the heart, awareness of the mind
  • Yoga Sutra 3.35 knowledge of Purusa comes from what-is-for-the-sake-of-another
  • Yoga Sutra 3.36 supernormal knowledge
  • Yoga Sutra 3.37 obstacles in samadhi but perfections in the extravertive state
  • Yoga Sutra 3.38 the mind can enter another body
  • Yoga Sutra 3.39 mastering the upgoing vital current udana
  • Yoga Sutra 3.40 blazing light
  • Yoga Sutra 3.41 divine hearing
  • Yoga Sutra 3.42 he travels through space
  • Yoga Sutra 3.43 the mind functioning outside the body
  • Yoga Sutra 3.44 samyama on their physical form
  • Yoga Sutra 3.45 becoming minute, and perfection of the body
  • Yoga Sutra 3.46 the perfection of the body
  • Yoga Sutra 3.47 conquest of the senses
  • Yoga Sutra 3.48 the body can travel with unsurpassable speed
  • Yoga Sutra 3.49 sattva and Purusa are different
  • Yoga Sutra 3.50 the taints and karmas are destroyed
  • Yoga Sutra 3.51 divine regions like heaven
  • Yoga Sutra 3.52 knowledge born of discrimination
  • Yoga Sutra 3.54 there is clear knowledge of two things
  • Yoga Sutra 3.55 there is Transcendental Aloneness
  • Yoga Sutra 4.01 Perfections siddhi arise
  • Yoga Sutra 4.02 the transformation into another life
  • Yoga Sutra 4.03 a breach in the retaining barrier of the natures
  • Yoga Sutra 4.04 the minds are projected from bare I-am-ness
  • Yoga Sutra 4.05 it is the one mind that impels the several minds
  • Yoga Sutra 4.06 the mind whose perfections arise out of meditation
  • Yoga Sutra 4.07 the karma of the yogin is neither white nor black
  • Yoga Sutra 4.08 the cessation of karma and of samskara groups
  • Yoga Sutra 4.09 there is sameness of form of memory and saṃskaras
  • Sutra 4.10 hope of self-preservation
  • Yoga Sutra 4.11 focal-point is resolved into cause and effect
  • Yoga Sutra 4.12 what are past and future do actually exist
  • Yoga Sutra 4.13 they consist of the gunas
  • Yoga Sutra 4.14 a thing is what it is by the fact of a unitary change
  • Yoga Sutra 4.15 since there is difference of the minds the two must be distinct categories
  • Yoga Sutra 4.16 it is not dependent on a single mind
  • Yoga Sutra 4.17 according to whether the mind is coloured by it, a thing is known or unknown
  • Yoga Sutra 4.18 to the Lord mental processes are always known.
  • Yoga Sutra 4.19 the mind is not self-illumining
  • Yoga Sutra 4.20 it takes some instants to discriminate objects,
  • Yoga Sutra 4.21 further and yet further ideas will be required.
  • Yoga Sutra 4.22 awareness of the idea of the self
  • Yoga Sutra 4.23 Mind, coloured by Seer and seen, has the various purposes
  • Yoga Sutra 4.24 it must exist for the purposes of another, because it is a construct
  • Yoga Sutra 4.25 cessation of meditation on his own being
  • Yoga Sutra 4.26 the mind is inclined to discrimination
  • Yoga Sutra 4.27 ideas arise from samskaras
  • Yoga Sutra 4.28 the escape is like that described in the case of the taints
  • Yoga Sutra 4.29 the samadhi called Raincloud of Dharma
  • Yoga Sutra 4.30 cessation of taints and karmas
  • Yoga Sutra 4.31 the knowable comes to be but a trifle
  • Yoga Sutra 4.32 the gunas have fulfilled their purpose
  • Yoga Sutra 4.33 the succession is conjoined to each instant
  • Yoga Sutra 4.34 Transcendental Aloneness is withdrawal of the gunas
• Category: Yogas of the Self
  • Note on Sanskrit words
  • The Vedas contain hymns to the universal spirit
  • The Apastamba Law-book
  • Atonement for sins committed
  • Shankara the Teacher
  • Commentary on the Chapter of the Self
  • Apastamba Shankaras commentary quotes
  • Practise the yogas of the Self
  • There is nothing higher than attainment of the Self
  • The unmoving abiding in the moving
  • Let the seer devote himself to that which lies in the cave
  • The all pervading Lord a mass of splendour
  • He is all, the highest goal, he is in the centre
  • See that which is hard to see
  • Seeing everything in the Self
  • Subtle, finer than a lotus-fibre, he stands covering all
  • Yoga is the basis for destruction of the doshas here in this life
  • Doshas which torment beings
  • Being without delusion or self-display
  • Shankara on Karma Yoga and Jnana Yoga
  • Find out what you really worship
  • Performing one’s duty without attachment
  • Karma yoga independence of the pairs of opposites
  • Patanjali gives methods for purifying and steadying the mind
  • Control of prana
  • Yogic practices for preparing the mind for knowledge
  • Knowledge of dream and of dreamless sleep
  • Meditation is the immediate precursor of Knowledge
  • Knowledge yoga in the Chapter of the Self
  • The universal Self moving the body and mind
  • The Chapter of the Self of the Apastamba Law-book
  • The Shankara commentary on the Chapter of the Self
  • Consciousness can the self be known
• Category: Zen and the Ways
  • Women in Early Japanese Zen
  • Introduction
  • Koan Zen
  • Mushin
  • The wave
  • Dragon-head snake-tail in Zen
  • Kamakura Zen
  • Political background
  • Daikaku wrote a short work on Zen called ‘Zazenron’
  • On meditation Zazen
  • Sayings of Daikaku
  • Bukko
  • Outline of Bukko’s teachings
  • Part Three Kamakura Koans Introduction
  • The Heart Sutra
  • Zen and the Ways part four
  • Zen and the Ways
  • Ri and ji
  • Shin and ki
  • Isshin and zanshin
  • Not setting the mind
  • Thrust without thrusting
  • Falling
  • Faith in the teacher
  • Dragon masks
  • Texts of the Ways
  • Heihokadensho
  • Songs of the Way of the Spear
  • Jujutsu school, late eighteenth century
  • Tengugeijutsuron
  • Reading a Zen story
  • Tesshu
  • Disadvantages
  • Endurance
  • Inner archery
  • Teaching methods
  • Janken
  • The Sword
  • Like a god
  • The temple bell
  • The fortune-teller
  • Change through inspiration
  • Daikaku’s one-word Sutra – Koan 4
  • Daikaku’s One-Robe Zen – Koan 6
  • Bukko’s Loin-Cloth Zen – Variant on Koan 6.
  • Jizo coming out of the Hall – Koan 9
  • The Dragon Crest – Koan 15
  • The Gate by which all the Buddhas come into the World – Koan 19
  • The Rite of the Treasury of Space – Koan 20
  • The Nembutsu Robe – Koan 25
  • The very first Jizo – Koan 31
  • The flower hall on Buddha’s birthday – Koan 41
  • Sermon – Koan 42
  • Wielding the spear with hands empty – Koan 44
  • The night interview of Nun Myotei – Koan 52
  • The picture of beauty – Koan 64
  • The Great Katzu! of Master Toden – Koan 68
  • The paper sword – Koan 69
  • Heaven and earth broken up – Koan 70
  • Painting the nature – Koan 74
  • The copy – Koan 80
  • The sermon of Nun Shido – Koan 87
  • Meditation of the energy-sea – Koan 92
  • Freeing the ghost – Koan 100
• Category: Zen Essays
  • I want some money too
  • Zen illness
  • The finger pointing to the moon
  • Bodhisattva Jizo
  • Changing Zazen
  • Short text of the Heart Sutra
  • Delusive Attachment to Self
  • The Load of Ignorance
  • Isolation from Others
  • The Cirle of Life
  • Forgetting Self
  • The Life Wheel
  • The real meaning of negation
  • An illustration of the wheel
  • The true character of the Self
  • Awakening to the character of our individuality
  • The nature of individuality
  • The true character of the human Self
  • Life Impelled by Karma
  • Passions are the Bodhi
  • The Inward Loneliness
  • The Concept Monster
  • The Non-Egoity of the Child
  • The World of Liberation
  • Power to Condemn, Power to Condone
  • Transcendence
  • The World beyond Birth and Death
  • Living Hand-to-Mouth
  • The World Transcending Values
  • The world without increase or lessening
  • The Experience of Emptiness
  • Meditation with the whole body
  • Living without leaving a track
  • Making the Heart empty
  • The voice filling heaven and earth
  • The Eighteen Elements
  • The Bodhisattva Ideal
  • The Hinayana ideal
  • The Pratyeka Buddhist view
  • The view of the Shravakas
  • The Bodhisattva spirit
  • Clinging to life
  • The Experience of Nirvana
  • The highest life
  • The Experience of Contradictions
  • The Parent Heart
  • The Power of Prajna
  • The Great Radiant Mantra
  • The Story of Sokko Konin
  • Hakuin was the greatest light of Rinzai Zen in Japan
  • Yashenkanna preface by a Cold Starveling, Master of Poverty Temple
  • Yasenkanna an autobiographical narrative by Zen Master Hakuin
  • Pieces in the Tigers Cave
  • The Lotus in the Mire
  • Poems by Zen Master Mamiya
  • The Dance of the Sennin
  • Maxims of Takamori Saigo
  • The Sermon of No Words
  • Stillness in action
  • From a commentary on Rinzai-Roku
  • Trevor Leggett’s First Zen Reader Introduction
  • A Sermon by Daito Kokushi
  • Zetto Zemmi
  • Zazen
  • What is meant by absence of thoughts
  • The real religious quest is never on the plane of fulfilling empirical desires
  • The Buddha is everywhere
  • To forget shame is to forget one’s own true heart
  • Zen has a totally unrestricted and universal outlook
  • One object of Zen is to see one’s nature and be enlightened
  • The Song of Meditation
  • Hakuin’s Song of Meditation contains his profoundest and most mystical doctrine
  • The relation between Buddha and ordinary man is so close
  • The necessity of thinking of liberation
  • Buddhism of the Great Vehicle
  • The Zen meditation of the Mahayana is the highest of them
  • Repentance and the destruction of sins
  • The merit of Hearing the Law
  • His own nature is no-nature
  • A direct expression of Zen enlightenment
  • The state of realization
  • Enlightenment and the perfection of the fourfold wisdom
  • The great freedom of limitless Samadhi and the wisdom of Buddhahood
  • Vastness, No Holiness
  • A note on the Ways
• Category: Zen Koans
  • Samurai Zen
  • Zen in riddling form
  • Shonan-katto-roku
  • Women in the Warrior Koans
  • Hachiman asks to hear the dharma – Koan 2
  • The Well of Youth – Koan 10
  • Putting out the fire in Hell Valley – Koan 11
  • Rankei’s Shari Pearls – Koan 12
  • The Deer at the Sermon – Koan 13
  • The Snake round the Ginko Tree – Koan 14
  • The Great Buddha of Hase – Koan16
  • How Priest Isshin saved the Ghost – Koan 21
  • The Verse facing Death – Koan 23
  • Benzaiten of Enoshima – Koan 26
  • The God Hachiman – Koan 27
  • The One-Word charm of Enkakuji – Koan 29
  • Mirror Zen – Koans 30
  • The Nyo-I Sickle of Enkakuji – Koan 32
  • The destruction of the Toad at Kaizoji – Koan 34
  • The Kannon at Hase – Koan 35
  • The Snake at Itozaki – Koan 37
  • Bukko’s Age – Koan 38
  • ‘The World-Honoured One has been born!’ – Koan 40
  • The source of heaven – Koan 43
  • The Kenchoji library – Koan 45
  • The badger-headed Kannon – Koan 47
  • The divine snake of the Benten shrine – Koan 49
  • The dharma-interview of Nun Mujaku – Koan 51
  • The Buddha-heart relics – Koan 53
  • The Zen Goma rite – Koan 54
  • The one-word. Heart Sutra – Koan 55
  • Isshin’s rain-making – Koan 56
  • The charm – Koan 58
  • Ashikaga Takauji’s ]izo-Son – Koan 59
  • The judgment of Yama – Koan 61
  • Really before the eyes – Koan 62
  • So – Koan 63
  • The mark of the Brahma-voice – Koan 66
  • The mind, the Buddha; no mind, no Buddha – Koan 67
  • The Great Katzu! of Master Toden – Koan Variation No. 68.
  • Victory in the midst of a hundred enemies – Koan 71
  • Teaching Buddhism – Koan 72
  • Not going, not coming – Koan 75
  • The way of the teacup – Koan 76
  • The scriptures of one hand – Koan 77
  • Daibai’s shari-pearls – Koan 78
  • The gate-keeper’s question – Koan 81
  • The Buddha’s birthday – Koan 82
  • Tengai’s heart-binding – Koan 83
  • The Lanka sutra of one word – Koan 84
  • One law, a thousand words – Koan 85
  • Ku-an’s three questions – Koan 86
  • The Knight patriarch coming from the west – Koan 88
  • Sadatsune receives the precepts – Koan 89
  • The Great Katzu! of Ryuho – Koan 90
  • Daiye’s verse on ‘not’ – Koan 91
  • Tozan’s Who’s-This? – Koan 93
  • The four Dharma-worlds of a teacup – Koan 95
  • The diamond realm – Koan 96
  • Meeting after death – Koan 97
  • Maudgalyayana’s mother – Koan 98
  • The iron bar of 10,000 miles – Koan 99
• Category: Zen Master
  • The Immutable Scripture
  • We are told in the holy texts to speak the truth
  • Zen calligraphy often brushes a circle to represent Perfection
  • Forty can help you. I know that it works
  • The Full Glory in Great Religions
  • Envying something that didn’t exist
  • It is a common view that mindfulness is thinking
  • Casual doubts can be a problem. The mind dithers
  • Taking Refuge in the Sangha
  • Studying the Holy Texts
  • Moss is cultivated as a symbol of inner realization
  • Reason in the service of the ego
  • There is a firm calmness at the root of the mind which can be cultivated
  • Sukha-Duhkha, Pleasure-Pain
  • Kannon with a Thousand Arms
  • The world runs mainly on illusions
  • Words of love are not always kindly words
  • Doing Good as Against Not Doing Harm
  • Practice has to be done till it goes past practice
  • Hypnotized into thinking that there is only one way to do a thing correctly
  • Illusion Has No Parts
  • The Zen monk Chih-chang and the famous poet Chang Chi
  • People in the world aim at triumph, but spiritual people aim at success
  • The Reverence of Others
  • A hundred hearings are not like one seeing
  • Ittokusai was famous as a kendo master, and as a Buddhist
  • Three Beautiful Things are: Tsuki, the moon; Yuki, snow; and Hana, flowers
  • The Sword and Mind
  • Zen Master Bukko
  • An Outline of Bukko’s Teachings
  • Die Quick! If You’re Going to Die
  • A master who trained Tsuji Somei was a prominent roshi
  • Sengai was a famous Zen priest
  • Governor of Tokyo Prefecture
• Category: Zen Training
  • Practical Zen and The World of the Absolute Present
  • The true self can be described as freedom and universality
  • A note from Tokyo
  • Two Ships
  • The mother of Mencius
  • The Peony Temple
  • Sit in the meditation hall of Moon in the Water
  • The Spur by Torei
  • The teaching of the main text of The Spur
  • TPL BS talks
  • Zen master Hakuin on the Lotus Mantra
  • The Buddha can write a masterpiece
  • The original face is a well-known Zen riddle
  • Life is the teacher
  • Taoist thought gives warnings against trying to teach the unteachable
  • See, Hear, Understand, and Sit On
  • I have felt a strength holding me, and peace within.
  • Primate of the Soto Zen Sect on controlling the Mind
  • The inward lonliness
  • The five skandhas have no fixed real nature
  • Human life is always quivering with uncertainty
  • The spirit of Mahayana Buddhism is to discover life’s real meaning
  • The true world of Nirvana in the midst of life
  • He saw all the five aggregates to be Emptiness
  • Introduction on the Heart Sutra
  • Zen is a Japanese approximation to the Sanskrit dhyana
  • Two poems
  • The perfection of the fourfold wisdom
  • The peak of realization
  • Jump beyond realization
  • Direct expression of Zen enlightenment
  • Turning the light so it shines back
  • The merit of Hearing the Law
  • Repentance and the destruction of sins
  • Zen meditation of the Mahayana
  • The direct pointing to the heart of man
  • The path of liberation, of ascension, must be sought
  • All living beings are from the very beginning Buddhas
  • Hakuin’s Song of Meditation
  • Zen is the practice of the Buddha way
  • The White Hare of Master Misshi
  • Awakening people to themselves
  • The Buddha is everywhere
  • What is the aim of religion?
  • Posture is the first step in Zazen
  • A tounge tip taste of Zen
  • Seeing one’s nature
  • WHAT WAS it that Buddha wished to teach?
  • The Dragon of Myoshinji Temple
  • The White Hare of Mi-shi
  • The Essentials for Entering the Way
  • Life in a Zen Training Temple
  • Bodidharma
  • The Koan of One Hand
  • The Enlightenment of Zen Master Hakuin
  • THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF ZEN MASTER DAITO
  • From the Autobiography of Priest Bankei