"Three things are essential: great doubt, great faith, great perseverance."

-- Zen proverb

"To get rid of your passions is not nirvana -- to look upon them as no matter of yours, that is nirvana."

-- Zen proverb

"To attain Buddhahood we must scatter life's aims and objects to the wind."

-- Zen proverb

"To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight

To a monk she's a distraction

To a mosquito, a good meal."

-- Zen aphorism

"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try if for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting."

-- Zen proverb

"Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary."

-- Zen proverb

"Small doubt, small enlightenment; big doubt, big enlightenment."

-- Zen proverb

"There are no wrong turns, only wrong thinking on the turns our life has taken."

-- Zen proverb

"If enlightenment is not where you are standing, where will you look?"

-- Zen proverb

"When you wash your bowl, wash your bowl."

-- Zen proverb

"The bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely."

-- Zen proverb

"Zen is like looking for spectacles that are sitting on your nose."

-- Zen proverb

"Zen is like looking for spectacles that are sitting on your nose."

-- Zen proverb

"The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men."

-- Zen proverb

"Show the poet your poem, show the warrior your sword."

-- Zen proverb