I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

If I am asked If I am asked, then, what Zen teaches, I would answer, Zen teaches nothing. Whatever teachings there are in Zen, they come out of one's own mind. We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.

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

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

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