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-- 'Judge ye not, so that you are not judged.' It is very egoistic.
The whole beauty of the saying is destroyed. The Zen flavour disappears, it becomes ordinary. It becomes good advice. It has no more revolution in it; it is parental advice. Very good -- but nothing radical. The second clause is a crucifixion of the radical statement.
Zen stops there: Judge ye not. Because Zen says all is as it is -- nothing is good, nothing is bad. Things are the way they are. Some tree is tall and some tree is small. And somebody is moral and somebody is immoral. And somebody is praying and some body has gone to steal. That's the way things are.
Now, see the revolutionary flavour of it. It will make you afraid, it will frighten you. That's why Zen has no commandments. It does not say: Do this and don't do that -- it has no shoulds and no should-nots. It has not created that prison of the 'ought'. It is not perfectionistic.
And now psychoanalysis knows it well, perfectionism is a kind of neurosis. And Zen is the only religion which is not neurotic. It accepts. Its acceptance is so total, so utterly total, that it will not even call a thief a thief, that it will not even call a murderer a murderer. Try to see the purity of its spirit -- try to see the utter transcendence. All is as it is.
Zen is unconditionally value-free -- if you make a condition, you miss the point. Zen has no fear and no greed. Zen has no God and no Devil, and Zen has no heaven and no hell. It does not make people greedy by alluring them, promising them rewards in heaven. And it does not make people frightened, scared, by creating nightmarish conceptions of hell.
It does not bribe you by rewards, and it does not punish you with tortures. It simply gives you an insight to see into things -- and that insight frees you. That insight has no greed as a base to it and no fear as a base to it. All other religions are greedy, all other religions are based deep down somewhere in fear. That's why we use the word 'god-fearing' for a religious person -- a religi-ous person is god-fearing.
But how can fear be religious? It is impossible. Fear can never be religious -- only
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