He initially stopped at Eisai's temple, Kennin-ji, long enough to be taught the basics of Rinzai Zen practice, but then he traveled on.
The record concerning how the Ch'an monastic system initially was established is less detailed than we might wish.
Although Zen initially forces a novice to focus on his own mind, this is only to enable him or her to attain the insight to merge with all things, great and small.
Initially he had advocated the "Mu" koan for beginners, but late in life he came up with the famous "What is the sound of one hand clapping?
It is not something that can be fully understood with the rational mind, and initially it must be taken partly on faith, as a holding action until we can understand it intuitively.
Nonetheless, a number of disciples initially perpetuated his memory, and his wisdom is preserved in various Sung-period compilations of Ch'an sermons.
Hakuin realized that meditating in the middle of distractions was initially more difficult--with fewer short-term rewards--than sitting quietly alone.
Let one jar be initially charged with positive electricity on its inner coating and the other with negative, and let both have their outsides connected to earth.
The Maldivian Government initiated an economic reform program in 1989 initially by lifting import quotas and opening some exports to the private sector.
Besides this, if the pressure in the air ballonet be initially somewhat greater than that of the external atmosphere, a considerable ascent may be produced by merely venting this air ballonet.
The wind direction may change during flight, so that the initial objective point may become unattainable, or an initially unattainable point may be brought within the field.
Peripherals (Brand X) It is often cheaper initially to use peripheral devices from a separate manufacturer, with interfacing provided either by the user or by an outside commercial firm.
Initially I shuddered at the thought that these fragile partitions could break; but strong copper bands secured them, giving them nearly infinite resistance.
You were interested a great deal initially when the field was being developed.
He found out, and now was the time to come back, and that coming back he was running into all the prejudices of the people here who were washing him off because he had taken this plunge and gone on his own initially to the U.
The Maldivian Government began an economic reform program in 1989 initially by lifting import quotas and opening some exports to the private sector.
Members of the European Parliament were initially selected by national parliaments, but in 1979 the first direct elections were undertaken and they have been held every five years since.
The industrial sector, initiallydominated by steel, has become increasingly diversified to include chemicals, rubber, and other products.
The absence of these last features is thought to have been dictated by English pipemakers catering for the American Indian market and initially copying aboriginal forms.
It is probable that the pit was initially a stump hole, there being a large quantity of dirty, greenish-gray clay at the bottom from which no artifacts were recovered (see fig.
Wasters were thinly represented among the sherds from Yorktown, although many underfired or overburned pieces were initially claimed as such.
Method of Excavation Digging was initially confined to the immediate vicinity of the chimney foundation (Area B on fig.
Copyright in a work protected under this title vests initially in the author or authors of the work.
A restored work vests initially in the author or initial rightholder of the work as determined by the law of the source country of the work.
Copyright in each separate contribution to a collective work is distinct from copyright in the collective work as a whole, and vests initially in the author of the contribution.
Although general observations initially led me to believe that the black, terminal hairs of the tip of the tail are longer in the winter pelage than in the summer pelage, actual measurements fail to show a difference in length.
This specimen appears to be white and initially was thought to be merely an individual in the white winter coat.
By either this interpretation, or the one initially considered (of female frenata and male erminea), the animals from the fissure are at least subspecifically distinct from any American Recent weasel.
My aim was initially to work out the geographic ranges of subspecies and only subsequently to apply names, according to which type localities fell within the previously determined geographic ranges.
To ensure that this new organization developed along proper lines, the Commandant ordered Edson to transfer a one-third slice of his unit to California as a cadre for the 2d Separate Battalion, which initially existed only on paper.
Carlson’s vision of the raiders initially influenced the training program, probably via Lieutenant Colonel James Roosevelt’s part in setting up the center.
He initially believed that people would do the right thing according to their consciences, but was disillusioned and then became autocratic.
The white and red striped barber pole initially indicated a place of surgery; The red represented blood and the white bandages.
Other attacks, aimed at seizing the heights of the eastern ridges, while initially successful, in that small infantry units could scramble up onto the bare ridge tops, thereafter came under fire from facing parallel ridges and caves.
During the planning for Peleliu, the division staff initially had no trained naval gunfire (NGF) planner.
Berger’s 2/7, initially in division reserve, but assigned to the 1st Marines on D plus 1, was immediately thrown into the struggle.
Initially supported by tanks, Pope’s company lost that support when the two leading tanks slipped off an approach causeway.
Since its location corresponded with the initially estimated position of the courthouse, it seemed possible that the foundation might have survived from that structure.
In the case of the aerodrome the car is initially standing still but ready to be acted upon by the combined force of the thrust of the propellers and the tension of the springs.
The Housatonic has always had its present southeasterly course, but the Still, heading at some point in its valley north of Danbury, flowed initially southward through one of four possible outlets.
Although the only outcrops along lower Rocky River are of granite, it is believed that a belt of limestone or schist, now entirely removed, initially determined the course of the river.
The Housatonic has always held its present southeasterly course, and the Still initially flowed southward, as stated above.
The northwest-southeast trends of master streams thus were determined initially by the slope of the peneplain, whereas the north-south trends represent later adjustments to structure.
The old headwaters extended northwest from the turn in the river near Bull's Bridge, whereas that part of the river above Bull's Bridge was initially a minor tributary.
If the depth of the drift be taken at 25 feet, there would seem to be no objection to the supposition that the Still initially joined its master stream opposite New Milford, as shown in fig 6.
To Charlotte Bronte, who by the showing of all evidence was initially responsible for a morally gratifying outcome of their dangerous attachment, this was a galling picture.
To inquire deeply into her determining initially to disavow the authorship of Wuthering Heights requires a somewhat ruthless baring of the "fiendish" vindictiveness against M.
That Charlotte Bronte had been initially entranced by her fairy tales, and the old songs she sang, is shown more especially in the phases she gives of Tabitha as Bessie and as Ellen Dean.
With a loathsome leer, the mother froze just out of reach, totally silent, watching her own son as he continued to stagger in the same direction he had initially chosen, until his own footsteps had carried him away from her.
This led Si'Wren to consider more seriously the strange Invisible God of whom Nelatha had initially spoken.
The woman initiallycalled forth had also frozen at Borla's sudden bark to be silent, and Emperor Euphrates repeated his command that she approach the throne.
Finally, he dismissed her to his left, and did likewise with the last of Si'Wren's accusers, the one who had voluntarily and initially spoken first of her own free volition.
It has been assumed, in all the experiments with the pendulum, that the operating energy is initially communicated from an outside source, say the hand of the observer.
Reactions of Composite Atmosphere It is now possible to deal with the case in which not only one gas but several gases are initially liberated on the planetary surface.
The descent of the atmospheric air masses in their movement towards regions of low velocity, and the return in the descent of the initially transformed axial energy to its original form.
This protest may have been founded initially on conceptions not too exalted, namely, that Jehovah and Melkart could not be worshipped in the same land, but there are evidences that Elijah had advanced further than that.
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