To live - is that not enough?

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

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.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

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

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts

Zen has no business with ideas.