To live - is that not enough?

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

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

When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

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

When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.