Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

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

Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

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