The Committee is elected through a proxy system which makes it possible for the godos to hold the necessary amount of ballots to control the result of the vote and still call the ballot democratical. The leaders are adamant about their independence from S t shu. On the other hand, they claim they benefit from an agreement with S t shu that would validate the ordinations they give, although they have not agreed to show any document backing this claim, nor any temple certificate recognizing any of their temples as S t temples. This claim has to be seen on the background of the S t school's current practice of giving Dharma transmission three years after the full monk ordination. Two current publication classify AZI outside of S t Zen.
True religion is meditation, and zazen is the highest expression of it.
Zazen is the only method which allows the practical resolution of all contradiction, the harmonAZItion of the left brain and the right brain, man and cosmos, God and each individual. Zazen is the source of religion, but also the main principle, the essence, of ecology. Zazen realizes the unity of microcosm and macrocosm. This is why we who have access to this source, we who know Hishiryo, are the only ones who have the perspective and the wisdom necessary to see clearly the errors of our time and formulate the principles which will allow for transformation. It is necessary to find a new principle for humanity.