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

To live - is that not enough?

Eternity is the Absolute present.

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.