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ZEN BUDDHISM ment. Hence the willingness to help all living things to the same liberation of mind. As the Lama said in Talbot Mundy's immortal Om, "My son, there is no such thing as sacrifice, except in the imagination. There is opportunity to serve, and he who overlooks it robs himself. Would you call the sun's light sacrifice?”
As a Zen Abbot said to me in Kyoto, "Get Enlightenment; the rest follows"; yet, as Alan Watts points out, “While morality should not be confused with religion, it does take one a certain distance towards the goal; it cannot go the whole way because morality is essentially rigid and limiting, and Zen begins where morality leaves off.”1 Like the intellect, it must be used and then transcended. Meanwhile, perhaps Aldous Huxley should have the last word of all these quotations. “The relationship between moral action and spiritual knowledge is circular, as it were, and reciprocal. Selfless behaviour makes possible an accession of knowledge, and the accession of knowledge makes possible the performance of further and more genuinely selfless actions, which in their turn enhance the agent's capacity for knowing.'2 And so on, until this pair of opposites is merged in Zen.
1 The Spirit of Zen, p. 63. 2 The Perennial Philosophy, p. 129.
