Perhaps the biggest mistake of Zen was the huge prize drawn by the founder of the sect, a top-tier Buddha Position. During the ancient era of the Fierce Realm warriors, such a prize was enough to fill the desires of all, and awe them into submission.
However, after the martial arts flourished for a thousand years and with the emergence of numerous Bodhisattvas, the Buddha which everyone in Zen talked about but no one ever achieved turned into an elusive dream for the practitioners of Zen – a goal coveted yet unreachable.
Every Zen practitioner firmly believed in the existence of Buddha, yet no one had ever seen him. Even those who claimed to have seen him were merely spreading hearsay, unable to withstand any scrutiny.
Perhaps it was due to being blind in front of the light, or perhaps they had forgotten. No one had ever thought about whether the path set by the founder of Zen was wrong from the start.
