Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden

Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.

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

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

The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

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

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