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

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

These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

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

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

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.