Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

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

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

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

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

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.

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.