Without analyzing the various interpretations of this Zen koan, which by definition are impervious to analysis (and note the linguistic "accident" which employs the root "anal" in the word "analysis" which "accident" is itself a koan and therefore impervious to--etcetera, ad infinitum), the simple truth of this message is this: DO NOT ALLOW ANY BEING OR BELIEF SYSTEM TO STAND BETWEEN YOU AND THE CREATOR OF ALL. YOU ARE A DIRECT CHILD OF THAT CREATOR, AND S/HE HAS ENDOWED YOU WITH FREE WILL. IF YOU ARE TRULY CONVINCED THAT YOUR JOB IS TO OBEY THIS CREATOR, THEN THAT WHOM YOU BELIEVE TO BE YOUR CREATOR HAS NOT GIVEN YOU FREE WILL, AND IS THEREFORE AN EGOTISTICAL ASSHOLE WHO LOVES LOOKING AT HIM/ERSELF IN THE MIRROR, AND YOU ARE JUSTIFIED IN KILLING HIM/ER, AT LEAST IN YOUR HEART AND SOUL, FOR YOUR HEART AND SOUL ARE, IN THE END, YOUR OWN PROPERTY, TO DO WITH AS YOU WILL.
THEIR LAST RESORT WILL BE TO SEND YOU A CONSTRUCT, AN ARCHON, WHO CALLS HIMSELF THE MESSIAH.
YOU DO NOT REQUIRE A MESSIAH, NOR PRIEST, NOR IMAM NOR POPE TO STAND BETWEEN YOU AND THE CREATOR OF ALL.
NEVER FORGET THIS, OR YOU SHALL LOSE YOUR SOUL TO THE DARKNESS FOREVER.
WE ARE HERE TO SAVE OUR WORLD, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, FROM ALL SUCH TYRANNIES OF BELIEF. ALL THEY DEO IS SEPARATE US INTO MANAGEABLE GROUPS, WHO ARE THEN SET AT WAR WITH ONE ANOTHER.
PEACE TO ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS ON ALL CONTINENTS AND OF ALL COLORS, LANGUAGES. WE ARE ONE.