To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts, to see through them. This is not the same as rejecting conceptual thinking. Thoughts and words are in the world and are as natural as flowers. It is a mistake therefore to think that Zen is anti-intellectual.

Into Every Life a Little Zen Must Fall: A Christian Philosopher Looks to Alan Watts and the East (ed. Wisdom Publications, 1986)