Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or….

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. Whe….

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 mome….

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 ….

There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But since the Self is what there is and all that there i….

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world..

We walk, and our religion is shown even to the dullest and most insensitive person in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately, living in this world….

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

Things have done their part; it is for us to do ours..

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poe….

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumptio….

The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such thin….

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

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

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 th….

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated..

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..

Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something th….

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

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

Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one..