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.


Bricks to Babel: Selected Writings (1980)

Arthur Koestler Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...