One has not understood until one has forgotten it.

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.

The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct way possible, without resorting to anything external or superadded. Therefore, anything that has the semblance of an external authority is rejected by Zen. Absolute faith is placed in a man's own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.