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

Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to 1952. After the first, background volume, the remaining three consist of a collection of Japanese haiku with translations, all organized by season, and within the seasons by traditional categories and about three hundred seasonal topics.

Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.

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

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.

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