a">In Zen, the Buddhist teaching 
  serves the purpose of guiding orders or directions. In fact we refer to the 
  teaching as 'a finger pointing at the moon.' The 'moon' is liberation, awakening 
  to the true nature of the self. The teachings of impermanence, no-self, and 
  the timeless, tranquil nature of the unknowable moment 'now', all point to the 
  necessity of forgetting the ego-self. The precepts and the Bodhisattva vows, 
  on one hand, and the practice of zazen on the other, provide the m