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

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.

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

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . .