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

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.

The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.