Studying Literature Zen

For studying literature Zen, one should have quiet quarters. Be moderate in food and drink. Cast aside all involvements and discontinue all affairs. Do not think of good or evil; do not deal with right or wrong. Do not intend to make yourself a Buddha, much less be attached to standing still.
—Dōgen

Do not seek to find out what to do. Every what to do is only a general recipe, that is, an abstraction. You will never come back into the truth of your own being riding on the back of an abstraction. If you know what to do, [you can] be sure it is the wrong thing.
—Bernard Phillips

Pray to God, but hammer away.
—Spanish proverb

We must learn to see the world anew.
—Albert Einstein

(Zen)