Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive Zazen sitter); warning stick (Rinzai Zen); encouragement stick (Soto Zen); horsewhip
zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position)
to know; to understand; to be aware of; to consent; to agree
doubt; suspicion; misgivings; scruples
affinity; compatibility; chemistry (between people)
selflessness; self-effacement; self-renunciation; anatta; anatman; doctrine that states that humans do not possess souls
sect; denomination; school (e.g. of poetry)
Soto school (of Zen Buddhism)
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
fire fighting; fire department; fire brigade
development (of film); photographic processing
shramana (wandering monk)
to plan; to plot; to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business); (arch.) to stand on tip-toes
setback; failure (e.g. plans, business); frustration; discouragement
regarding highly; attaching importance to
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
Nishida Kitarou (1870.6.17-1945.6.7)
dhyana (profound meditation); Zen (Buddhism)
outline; survey; compendium
to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please
criticism; judgement; judgment; comment
you could say; you might say; verging on the
feeling on the skin; skin sensation
to keep company; to listen to; to associate with; to play against (e.g. a team); to take on (e.g. a rival)
sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
I-novel; novel narrated in the first person
(the) mainstream; main course (of a river); main stream
world view; outlook on the world; Weltanschauung (philosophy); appearance of a world (e.g. in fiction)
tide; current; tendency; trend
to support (a theory, claim, etc.); to back up; to substantiate; to prove
have to do; must; should; ought to
laws of nature; physical laws; physics
messy; confused; chaotic; complaining about various things
newton (N) (SI unit of force); Newton (Sir Isaac)
one's chief (literary) work; main work