Reddit reviews The Teachings of Master Wuzhu: Zen and Religion of No-Religion (Translations from the Asian Classics)
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Are you sourcing this from The Teachings of Master Wuzhu: Zen and Religion of No Religion ? I've put it on my wishlist.
"No merit whatsoever" is just as good as "void and nothing holy" in my book. What does either leave to cling to?
You can read about wuzhu in wendi adamek's book. https://www.amazon.com/Teachings-Master-Wuzhu-No-Religion-Translations/dp/0231150237
She's tite if you haven't read her. The book covers the text itself and encounters well questions of its 'legitimacy'
And yeah, part of the thing is his 'lineage' or student line or whatever didn't last. He was very clever, right along hueneng in changing around words to be more about mind and less about practice, and was certainly iconoclastic in speech (and practice, there is a funny passage about monks begging him to do normal stuff), but there was no predecessor clever enough to withhold the contradiction as well as he did.