Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life is fact and no explanation is necessary or pertinent. To explain is to apologize, and why should we apologize for living? To liveโis that not enough? Let us then live, let us affirm! Herein lies Zen in all its purity and in all its nudity as well.
D.T. SuzukiZen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
D.T. SuzukiZen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
D.T. SuzukiThe mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?
D.T. Suzuki