“Westerners view the physical world as the operative reality and the unseen, nonphysical world as an abstraction (comforting or not, depending upon our beliefs or immediate needs, the spiritual world is said to grow less abstract to those in foxholes).… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Only in formal meditation can there be the real beginning of understanding.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“At the evening gathering the Master addressed the assembly, saying: "Sometimes I take away man and do not take away the surroundings; sometimes I… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Words can point the way, but the path must be traveled in silence.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Zen would have our perception of the world, indeed our very thoughts, be nonverbal.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Contemplation of the movement and shifting composition of sea-waves is a useful symbolical approach; for, not only are the waves and the sea identical… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Cultivation is of no use for the attainment of Tao. The only thing that one can do is to be free of defilement. When… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“. . . the ignorant and the simple minded, not knowing that the world is what is seen of Mind itself, cling to the… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Whereas the logical mode of thought can only manipulate the world view of given paradigm, intuition can inspire genuine creativity, since it is not… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Westerners view the physical world as the operative reality and the unseen, nonphysical world as an abstraction (comforting or not, depending upon our beliefs… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic ideals emerging from Zen art focus heavily on naturalness, on the emphasis of man's relation to nature. The Zen artists, as do many… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“The right pace, neither slow nor fast, cannot get into the hand unless it comes from the heart.” — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“A good cook changes his knife once a year because he cuts, while a mediocre cook has to change his every month because he… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“The master Wen-yu summed it up when he answered a demand for the First Principle of Ch'an with, "If words could tell you, it… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
“There is nothing difficult about the Great Way But, avoid choosing! Only when you neither love nor hate, Does it appear in all clarity.… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
