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

Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

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

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?

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

The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.