Zen means not holding onto anything. If you are holding something, or making something, or attached to something, you are not practicing Zen. If you try to practice Zen in this way you cannot get enlightenment and cannot understand your true self, even if you try for your whole life. So it is very important to put down your ideas and your feelings. What are you? If you don't know, only go straight — don't know.
— Seung Sahn, Only Don't Know by Seung Sahn, Hyon Gak Sunim, editor