Basho said to his disciple: “When you have a staff, I will give it to you. If you have no…
“Seijo, the Chinese girl,” observed Goso, “had two souls, one always sick at home and the other in…
Joshu began the study of Zen when he was sixty years old and continued until he was eighty, when…
Jiun, a Shingon master, was a well-known Sanskrit scholar of the Tokugawa era. When he…