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

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

The establishment of inner harmony is to be attained neither in the past nor in the future, but where the past and future meet, which is the now. When you have attained that point, neither future nor past, neither birth nor death, neither time nor space exist. It is that NOW which is liberation, which is perfect harmony, to which the men of the past and the men of the future must come.

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

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

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.