What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes..

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

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets..

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..

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….

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..

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

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….

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….

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

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

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….

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world..

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….

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 ….

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

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

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….