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.

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.

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

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

Zen has no business with ideas.