-- The Buddha Demon --

Zen Master Linji Yixuan (Japanese: Rinzai) once said to a monk, 

"If you seek the Buddha, you will be caught by the Buddha Demon;

if you seek the patriarchs, you will be bound by the patriarch-Demon.
Whatever you are seeking, all becomes suffering."

~ The Record of Linji ~

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These Zen Masters are wonderful! Such type of fun is possible only in a Zen environment. If you go to a Christian society and there you say 'Jesus Demon', or if you go to a Mohemmadan society and there you say 'Mohammad Demon', then your life is in danger!
Zen is the only religion which has made humor and iconoclasm religious!
People are egotist. Their way of living bring misery. But they want to remain as they are and seek the grace of some Buddha or some deity and think that those deities can bring them out of their miseries!!! They think that God or that deity has created miseries for them…

ये ज़रा ज़रा सी बात पर,

तरह तरह का आज़ाब क्यों ?

जो किसी से भी खफा ना हो,

मुझे उस खुदा की तलाश है !

The poet says:

“Why so many punishments for small things?
I am seeking a God who doesn’t become angry at anyone!”

Master Linji is saying, stop searching for your imaginary concepts and start looking within. As soon as one starts meditating, it starts becoming clear what the things are which are making him miserable. Then one starts becoming free of them :)