These Zen adepts knew that it was inevitable for concepts and methods and institutions that had originally been useful in promoting awareness to be "captured by the world" and drained of their enlightening effect by being made into objects of emotional veneration and blind allegiance. A major duty of the adept teachers, therefore, was to work against this ongoing process of fossilization, and to make a continuously fresh "living adaptation" of the essence of the Buddhist message for their own time and place.
---J. C. Cleary---
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