Zen has no business with ideas.

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

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

To live - is that not enough?

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.

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

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