Takuan Soho Quotes

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.

Sever the edge between before and after.

When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.

Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.

The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.