We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

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

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.

Zen has no business with ideas.

The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.

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