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

Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

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.

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

Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.

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