What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

- Katsuki Sekida

You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true eye?' I could not understan…

- Katsuki Sekida

The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

- Katsuki Sekida

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nerv…

- Katsuki Sekida