Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

Zen is a single step—the journey of one single step. You can call it the last step or the first step, it doesn’t matter. It is the first and it is the last, the alpha and the omega. The whole teaching of Zen consists of only one thing: how to take a jump into nothingness, how to come to the very end of your mind, which is the end of the world.

There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.

Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules; you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness.

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.

Zen is magic. It gives you the key to open the miraculous. And the miraculous is in you and the key is also in you.

Transformar algo mundano en sagrado requiere un gran arte.

Sıkıntı hissi sizin içsel yolculuğa çıkmaya hazır olduğunuza dair bir işarettir.

Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.