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

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.

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?

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.

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