It’s only with great reluctance that I call myself “a Buddhist” even today—although I’ve been involved with Buddhism for the better part of twenty years now. My definition of Buddhist has nothing at all to do with the social institutions all over the world that call themselves by that name. Zen Buddhism is direct pointing to the truth. It’s cutting through the crap and getting to the ground of things as they really are. It’s getting rid of all pretense and seeing what’s actually here right now.
