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

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

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

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

One has not understood until one has forgotten it.

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts

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