Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs.

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

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

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.

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 agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.