[Skybird]

From the Sutra of the Sixth Chan Patriarch, whom Hui Neng was:

"Those who know the meaning, have gone beyond senseless words; thjose who have an insight into reason have transcended the letter. The teaching itself is more than words and letters, why should we seek it in these? He who attains the meaning, forgets the words; he has an insight into reason and leaves tghe teaching behind. It is like a man forgetting the creel when he has the fish, or forgetting the noose when he has the hare."

That was form the 8th century. And now Yuan-Wu from the 13th century:

"The truth of Zen is possessed by everybody. Look into your own being and seek it not through others. Your mown mind is above all forms, it is free and quiet and sufficient; it eternally stamps itself in you six senses and the four elements. Hush the dualism of subject and object, forget both, transcend the intellect, sever yourself from the understanding, and directly penetrate deep into the identity of the Buddha-mind; outside of this there are no realities. Therefore, when Bodhidharma came from the West, he simply declared: 'Directly pointing to one'S own soul, my doctrine is unique and not hampered by the cononical teachings (...)' "

Do you now get an idea on why Hui Neng pathetically stormed the library and destroyed it? It is the same reason why you take a piece of paper and throw it away when yiu filled it with wrong m ath calculations, or when you painted a rose and see that no matter how you paint it, it never catches the beauty of the original. It is the same reason why school teachers correct the mistakes of their students, and why I say that categorical thinking is inept to catch the real nature of reality.

Vandalism had little to do with it.