Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.
Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .
The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.
Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.
I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.