The Principle Mark Of Genius Is Not

God Seems To Have Left The Receiver Off The Hook And Time Is Running Out.

The Ultimate Truth Is Penultimately Always A Falsehood. He Who Will Be Proved Right In The End Appears To Be Wrong And Harmful Before It.

The 'gallows' Are Not Only A Symbol Of Death, But Also A Symbol Of Cruelty, Terror And Irreverence For Life; The Common Denominator Of Primitive Savagery, Medieval Fanaticism And Modern Totalitarianism.

Zen Is To Religion What A Japanese "rock Garden" Is To A Garden. Zen Knows No God, No Afterlife, No Good And No Evil, As The Rock-garden Knows No Flowers, Herbs Or Shrubs. It Has No Doctrine Or Holy Writ: Its Teaching Is Transmitted Mainly In The Form Of Parables As Ambiguous As The Pebbles In The Rock-garden Which Symbolise Now A Mountain, Now A Fleeting Tiger. When A Disciple Asks "what Is Zen?", The Master's Traditional Answer Is "three Pounds Of Flax" Or "a Decaying Noodle" Or "a Toilet Stick" Or A Whack On The Pupil's Head.

Some Of The Greatest Discoveries...consist Mainly In The Clearing Away Of Psychological Roadblocks Which Obstruct The Approach To Reality; Which Is Why,post Factum They Appear So Obvious.