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

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.

To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.

The 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?

We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.

Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.