It seems to me important that just as Christianity separated its self from Judaism, Zen must separate its self from Buddhism. All living things are born from another, and the emergence of Transcendental Awareness from the exquisite Hindu traditions is just as dramatic as the emergence of Christianity from its historical culture. The lives of those that gave all to the reception of the ultimate reality of being can not be trivialized, but the achievement of that reality must inevitably be trivialized, for it is seldom found that creature which can venture into the realm of the the high truth of its own existence.
The Zen of the Patriarchs is the lore of an awakening unprecedented, but not unheralded. The quest for the impersonal recognition of the course and the core of individual mind had been pressing into the terra incognito of existence from the dawn of consciousness when that particular individual, after many strivings and privations, sat down with a will and woke up.
Looking at philosophy from a respectful distant, and looking at even the finest fruits of belief in its multifarious forms, there is nothing that speaks to Transcendental Awareness in other than the terms of belief.
The Buddha was not a believer.
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