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

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 the unsymbolization of the world.

There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.

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

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.