O "chaísmo" é um culto que se fundamenta na veneração da beleza em meio à sordidez dos acontecimentos diários. Incute a pureza e a harmonia, o mistério da caridade mútua, o romantismo da ordem social. É essencialmente a veneração do imperfeito, uma tentativa singela de conquistar o possível em meio a esta coisa impossível que conhecemos como vida.

In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgment matured I praised myself for liking what the masters had chosen to have me like.

We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of the individual.

Welcome to thee,O sword of eternity!Through BuddhaAnd through Daruma alikeThou hast cleft thy way.

Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique.

nous laissons à nos sympathies historiques le pas sur notre jugement esthétique. Et ce n'est que lorsqu'il gît tranquillement dans la tombe que nous offrons à un artiste les fleurs de notre approbation.

Le ciel de l'humanité moderne s'est brisé en éclats dans la lutte cyclopéenne pour la richesse et la puissance. Oui ce monde avance à tâtons dans les ténèbres de l'égocentrisme et de la vulgarité. La connaissance s'achète au prix de la mauvaise conscience, la bienveillance se mesure à l'aune de l'utilité. L'Orient et l'Occident, comme deux dragons ballotés sur une mer en furie, luttent en vain pour reconquérir le joyau de la vie.

ceux qui se révèlent incapables de sentir en eux-mêmes la petitesse des grandes choses ne sauraient reconnaître chez les autres la grandeur des petites choses.

We find Tankawosho breaking up a wooden statue of Buddha on a wintry day to make a fire. 'What sacrilege!' said the horror-stricken bystander. 'I wish to get the Shali out of the ashes,' calmly rejoined the Zen. 'But you certainly will not get Shali from this image!' was the angry retort, to which Tanka replied, 'If I do not, this is certainly not a Buddha and I am committing no sacrilege.' Then he turned to warm himself over the kindling fire.

Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality.