--Christian Buddha--

A university student while visiting Gasan asked him: “Have you ever read the Christian Bible?”

“No, read it to me,” said Gasan.

The student opened the bible and read from St. Matthew: “And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lillies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. … Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for things of itself.”

Gasan said: “Whoever uttered those words I consider an enlightened man.”

The student continued reading: “Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.”

Gasan remarked: “That is excellent. Whoever said that is not far from Buddhahood.”

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Zen is looking at the world with a fresh meditative eye. All the religions teach you to have blind faith over certain books which they call as scriptures. And the book which is considered as scripture by one religion is just an ordinary book for the other religions. A man of Zen doesn't affirms or criticizes all the contents of any book blindly. If something seems right to him, he will say it right. If something from the same book seems to be wrong to him, he will criticize it. A man of Zen is not a slave of any book!