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

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

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

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

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

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

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.