An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

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”.

Zen is religion, in the sense that Christianity and Mohammedanism is, would be a mistake

Zen believes in its inner purity and goodness

contradiction of the common law of moral life

the very denial involves something not denied

but this does not mean that Zen denies the existence of God; neither

for Zen has no God to worship, no ceremonial rites to observe, no future abode to which the dead are destined

sacred literature as rubbish

Zen has no philosophy, that it denies all doctrinal authority

nihilism is self-destructive,