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.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

One has not understood until one has forgotten it.

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

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

When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.