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

To live - is that not enough?

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.

Zen has no business with ideas.

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