Bodhidharma is not above a brush off from Xuedou, just as we find out later, Xuedou is not above a brush off from Yuanwu, and Buddha himself is not above a brush off from Yunmen.
Zen Masters give each other the "brush off" in a way that is... well, entirely foreign to religions, especially Buddhism, triple especially "Zen Buddhism", the name for the freaky Buddhist cults from Japan.
Why? Well, Zen Masters don't depend on each other, but religions desperately need legitimacy via reverence. Simple answer.
This about it. If messiahs like Dogen, L. Ron Hubbard, Joseph Smith, Shunryu Suzuki, Thich Hahn, and Alan Watts were not legit, what would their followers have to discuss?
Whereas if Xuedou isn't legit, no problem. Nobody knows what he says anyway.
Bodhidharma is the beginning of the lineage, and what do Zen Masters themselves say Bodhidharma taught?
It's not a big deal list like you get from messiahs:
What is the highest holy truth? Emptiness, with nothing holy therein.
What kind of lineage can you get from teaching of Emptiness?
Submitted February 16, 2022 at 09:34AM by ewk https://ift.tt/bBZvIPO
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