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

To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.

Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.

The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral.

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.