The Ten Absences

In order to experience of the primordial state:

1. There is no view on which one has to meditate.
2. There is no commitment one has to keep.
3. There is no capacity for spiritual action one has to seek.
4. There is no mandala one has to create.
5. There is no initiation one has to receive.
6. There is no path one has to tread.
7. There are no levels of realization on has to achieve through purification.
8. There is no conduct one has to adopt or abandon.
9. From the beginning self-arising wisdom has been free of obstacles.
10. Self perfection is beyond hope and fear.

Zen practitioners are not conditioned by anything, not even by the teachings, the practice, beliefs, etc.