Depends Quote by Robert Linssen

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

— John Daido Loori

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

— Howard Fast

Zen has nothing to teach us in the way of intellectual analysis; nor has it any set doctrines which are imposed on its followers…

— D.T. Suzuki

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.

— D.T. Suzuki

Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the…

— D.T. Suzuki

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

— Rajneesh

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

— Katsuki Sekida

Zen is the vehicle of reality.

— Jim Harrison

“Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or…

— Chris Prentiss

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.

— Gene Clark

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Zen has nothing to do with any god. No sincere man, no intelligent man has anything to do with any fiction. He searches within.…

— OSHO