Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘Nowadays elders of different monasteries say that only direct experience without discrimination to hear the unhearable and to see the unseeable is the way of buddha ancestors. So they hold up a fist or a whisk, or they shout and beat people with sticks. This kind of teaching doesn’t do anything to awaken students. Furthermore, these teachers don’t allow students to inquire about the essentials of the Buddha’s guidance and they discourage practices that aim to bear fruit in a future birth. Are these teachers really teaching the way of buddha ancestors?’ (journals of his time in China)