That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.

The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

The wake doesn't drive the ship

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.