Memento mori is a good pointing out instruction if you follow it in real time.
A koan is religious cryptophasia.
Great doubt is salvific potentiation.
The teacher pretends to be a saint. The saint pretends to be a sage. The sage pretends to be a teacher.
Zen without struggle is like trying to convince your partner that your impotence is sexy.
Ride the buffalo straight through hell!
Your satori must be immediate intentional change from a world of efficient causality to one of formal causality.
Koan: If something were to exist, where would it be now?
A lake of light soaking through an incomprehensible interlocking of visions.
Would the final sangha be post-characterological?