Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

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.

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

Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, bur appropriate actions in an imperfect one.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .