If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.

Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND