Ummon, founder of the Ummon School of Zen, comments on this by saying, “If I had been with him at the moment of his uttering this, I would surely have struck him dead with one blow and thrown the corpse into the maw of a hungry dog”.
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Zen is religion, in the sense that Christianity and Mohammedanism is, would be a mistake
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Zen believes in its inner purity and goodness
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contradiction of the common law of moral life
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the very denial involves something not denied
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but this does not mean that Zen denies the existence of God; neither
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for Zen has no God to worship, no ceremonial rites to observe, no future abode to which the dead are destined
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sacred literature as rubbish
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Zen has no philosophy, that it denies all doctrinal authority