Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts.

Robert Linssen

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Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere;

garden simple lakes

In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown.

thrown judo thinking

In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown. Victory is assured to the combatant who is both physically and mentally nonresistant.

judo victory thinking

Reality is where we are from moment to moment.

moments reality

If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests.

play attitude average

Most writers agree on the fact that Zen is not to be understood but to be lived; and far from being incompatible with the requirements of everyday life, Zen confers on it its own full revealing value.

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