Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.

What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

Things have done their part; it is for us to do ours.

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.