ALL IS ILLUSION? "How? " If your mind is not ripe, forget it.
"Watch me.
By their very seeking they lose it….if they put a stop to conceptual thought and forget their anxiety, the Buddha will appear before them, for this Mind is Everything is One Mind (Source Substance).
Alfred Pulyan; Pulyan's follower --- and teacher in his own right --- Richard Rose; and Pulyan's Teacher, the mysterious and unnamed female teacher who, to my knowledge, never instructed anyone other than Pulyan.(see). When the same ocean water is converted by the sun's rays into vapor and then comes down as rain from the clouds, there is an amount of "sweetness" which is associated with the same water. After the death of the Buddha his idea or method of direct transmission, except for small pockets of steadfast adherents, slowly faded almost entirely into the mists of time. The expression Mind-to-Mind Transmission is borrowed from more ancient spiritual tradition, as are most terms, in this case: Zen. It is all up to the student who must seek this Mind in their inner-mind. Examples would be praying, engaging in charitable and volunteer work, singing devotional songs, and attending lessons by a spiritual teacher. A 50th Anniversary edition of the bestselling Zen classic on meditation, maintaining a curious and open mind, and living with simplicity. The same character I wrote on the board is used twice here. In Zen tradition, kong-an means the student's understanding of a question is one-half and matches the teacher's understanding of the same question, which is the other half. Transmission of Mind by Mind: Traditional Meaning. said the teacher.
See: The past several years has seen a proliferation of smartphone meditation apps come on the market, all designed in such a way to ease, assist, familiarize, and put into use meditation techniques for almost anybody interested in learning and implementing the various ins-and-outs of meditation, at least as the manufacturers of the apps view meditation. Sokei-an, as the prime mover in the advocacy of Direct Transmission, is quoted as saying in his own words: Although well regarded and seldom argued with in American Zen circles, Direct Transmission never had a large vocal following in the United States. However, in the end, Esoteric/Exoteric connotations are dualistic and traditionally not within the realm or scope of Zen. Allison Atwill talks about transmission from two perspectives – the formal ‘Ikkan’ seal of transmission passed down in the Chan lineage from Bodhidharma; the Mind to Mind transmission.
The Zen Mind to Mind transmission requires intuition. Again, suppose there is a sweet and ripe fruit at the top of a tree: The fast approach provides the quickest means to experience awareness beyond that normally associated with the ego. Or that the writing mind was different from the minds of Zen students who had become priests. Either before or after his stay at the ashrama of the Maharshi, and I believe it was before --- even though it is not mentioned by William Somerset Maugham in his book that chronicles my mentor's spiritual quest --- he traveled to Bijapur to meet with another Indian holy man, Siddharameshwar Maharaj. Main Do… Suppose we collect water from the ocean and bring it home.
The ocean water will have a salt taste to it. They wear glasses to improve the clarity of their physical vision. For the first time, using advanced, non-invasive brain technologies, scientists demonstrate direct mind-to-mind transmission between two conscious humans 5,000 miles apart.
I only know who the holy man is now because I was able to put together bits and pieces of information such as time and place with such clues as "the bird's way." SPIRITUAL GUIDES, GURUS, AND TEACHERS INFLUENTIAL IN THE RAZOR'S EDGE OTHER THAN THE MAHARSHI. Sri Ramana Maharshi: Is there a substance to be transferred? Beyond the words and beyond all teachings to be transmitted, I now pass this on to Maha Kashapa.'". $23.45 — Paperback So, even though it is not uncommon to experience supernormal perceptual states known in Sanskrit as Siddhis, advancing through various Jhana stages, levels of Zen, or Vipassana Meditation, the emphasis of such schools is to continue grounding back to this earth --- to the sights, sounds, tastes and thoughts that comprise ordinary experience. So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. NOTE: Traditionally, the approach to spirituality can be either Exoteric or Esoteric. An analogous situation holds for the Exoteric and Esoteric schools. [The document presented here.] THE ART COLLECTION OF W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
by transmission_of_mind in zen [–] transmission_of_mind [ S ] 0 points 1 point 2 points 1 day ago (0 children) I dunno, it was just a line that sprang to mind from Riders on the storm. The the ancient and long-established --- yet never universal --- art of Direct Transmission first began showing up in the United States in the mid to late 1920s. SWAMI RAMDAS
Beyond the manufacturers advertisement and promotions, for every page that shows up on the internet or elsewhere in support of using the apps, there is an equal number of pages knocking their use. [25] Bodhidharma The special transmission of Zen is the realization of the Buddha's enlightenment itself, in one's own life, in one's own time. However, and this is one of the biggest however's ever, it is that better than nothing that makes it not, not nothing, the goal of meditation. The book is not scholarly but contains informal and transparent translations of Suzuki’s talks. The following quote is from Abbot John Daido Loori, M.R.O., given during the Soto School's Tokubetsu sesshin, Spring 1995 and explains transmission rather quickly: Even so, the above notwithstanding, similar but one quarter the words, the following is from a question answer session with Sri Ramana: Questioner: Swami Vivekananda says that a spiritual Guru can transfer spirituality substantially to the disciple. Only
What the knocking their use people are selling varies, but the in support folk seem to be in line with the app builders and promoters because if nothing else, the apps sell --- and sell big time, especially so the two top brands, Headspace and Calm.
The Zen Mind to Mind transmission is both self-revealing and self-authenticating—it does not depend upon a teacher who mysteriously gives it to us. Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has the ability to evoke introspection in the readers. For fifty years, Suzuki Roshi’s classic Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has been essential reading for anyone wanting to better understand their mind. The way is known as Pipilika Marg (Ant-path). Other disciples (who failed in receiving that mind transmitted message) had to be informed by the Buddha in the usual way of speaking, about this … In 1928 Yeita Sasaki became a full-fledged Zen master receiving Inka Shomei from his teacher Sokatsu Shaku, and in the process taking the name Sokei-an. It might begin with the teacher asking you,”How do you move Mount Everest three feet?” Or your teacher might say to you, “In clapping both hands a sound is heard. ». He acknowledged Bodhidharma as the first to proclaim: "Directly point to the human mind; see one's nature and become a Buddha; do not establish words and letters."(source).
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