What about the desire for enlightenment? Or for peace? Or food? Why aren't Zen masters starving to death?
All I can say is, I'll take Christ over the "enlightened far East" any day.
What if the true Zen masters desire no recognition or fame, and therefore hide themselves away from everyone, and stop eating. Perhaps all the true Zen masters have starved themselves to death. The ones that survive, then, are fakes.