The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?

Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.

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

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

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