Analysis Quote by Tom Hoover

The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation…

— Thomas Merton

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

— James H. Austin

Zen is the vehicle of reality.

— Jim Harrison

We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many…

— David Fontana

Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.

— Tom Hoover

In Zen you are learning how to make new realities, to build things inside your mind.

— Frederick Lenz

The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

— Alan Watts

Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton…

— D.T. Suzuki

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

— D.T. Suzuki

Zen is the enemy of analysis, the friend of intuition. The Zen artist understands the ends of his art intuitively, and the last thing…

— Tom Hoover

In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that…

— Frederick Lenz