Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers for acceptance.

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

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

You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.

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.

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?

Zen has no business with ideas.