If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha

After [his master's death], Ta-hui gathered all the [master's] publications together in front of the temple and made a bonfire of them. What the teacher builds in shape must be destroyed by the disciples in order to keep the teaching from becoming an empty shell. Western philosophers create their own theory then followers continue to repair the outer structure until it no longer resembles the original. In Zen we say, "Kill Buddha and the patriarchs; only then can you give them eternal life."

—from The Iron Flute by Nyogen Senzaki

No dogma. No tradition. Each generation finds the truth anew, unchanged yet unlike that of the previous generation.