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There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.

I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.