And remember that Zen does not belong to anyone
neither to you, nor to me,
nor to those who claim it,
nor to the elders of the mountains, nor to the young people of the cities,
nor to books, nor to speeches,
Zen has no right of entry and requires no investment,
No threshold beyond which you can access it,
No money, nor intellectual or linguistic baggage,
No authority to allow you access,
This is why Zen is, on several levels, elusive.
We cannot grasp it, nor appropriate it, nor distribute it, nor retain it.
And whatever the context or person who seems to appropriate it, whatever the level of transitory truth of their argument, whatever their reaction to listening to these lines,
Zen is always beyond
In this, Zen is never Zen and what is called thus does not exist,
When this freedom opens up to your eyes, none of this matters anymore,
Freedom and faith are here one.
Zen, Tao, … Living God.
Notes & Silence 
Or, as I see it, everyone is free just to « be » – this is not even a practice, let alone a proprietary practice.
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This comment deserves to be framed and hung on every practitioner’s walls.
But this would betray the essence of the message.
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Ironic, isn’t it?
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