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

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.

To live - is that not enough?

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.

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.