Jinsei nana korobi Ya oki. Such is life– Seven times down, Eight times up! - Alan Watts

Zen emphasizes immediate action. When anything is to be done, it should be done immediately without thinking it over in advance.

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd — uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don’t.

Nu există niciodată altceva decât prezentul, și dacă cineva nu poate trăi în el, nu poate trăi nicăieri.