There is a beautiful story about the Adi Guru Dakshinamurthy, where the teaching was transmitted in silence. The four sons of Brahma - Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana, and Sanatkumara were already enlightened at birth. Yet, they still needed the final Guru Upadesa. They began searching for someone who could offer them that ultimate transmission. They could have received it from Brahma himself, but Brahma was immersed in karma -creating, creating, endlessly engaged in the process

On the path of dhyana, or Zen, there is no hypothesis, no God. And it is not a question of love. A man of Zen is very loving, but he has not practiced love; it has come as a by-product of his realization. He simply realized his own buddhahood. There is no question of another, a God somewhere else in heaven. He has simply reached his own center of life, and being there, he explodes into love, into compassion. His love comes after his enlightenment; it is not a method for enlig