To-day Zen as a living faith can be found in its pure form only
among the Japanese Buddhists. You cannot find it in the so-called
Gospel of Buddha anymore than you can find Unitarianism in the
Pentateuch, nor can you find it in China and India any more than
you can find life in fossils of bygone ages. It is beyond all doubt
that it can be traced back to Shakya Muni himself, nay, even to
pre-Buddhistic times, because Brahmanic teachers practised Dhyana,
or Meditation, from earliest times. Compressing his breathings let
him, who has subdued all motions, breathe forth through the nose
with the gentle breath. Let the wise man without fail restrain his
mind, that chariot yoked with vicious horses. Let him perform his
exercises in a place level, pure, free from pebbles, fire, and
dust, delightful by its sounds, its water, and bowers; not painful
to the eye, and full of shelters and eaves. When Yoga, is being
performed, the forms which come first, producing apparitions in
Brahman, are those of misty smoke, sun, fire, wind, fire-flies,
lightnings, and a crystal moon. When, as earth, water, light, heat,
and ether arises, the fivefold quality of Yoga takes place, then
there is no longer illness, old age, or pain for him who has
obtained a body produced by the fire of Yoga.
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