Huineng states that Chan/Zen is the fourth vehicle of Buddhism?

I found this quote while reading the Sutra of Huineng:

Observe your own original mind; don't cling to the appearances of external things. There are no four vehicles in truth, but human minds have differences of level. Seeing, hearing, reading, and reciting are the small vehicle; understanding the teaching and solving the meanings is the middling vehicle; cultivating conduct in accord with the teaching is the great vehicle. Penetrating the truths, encompassing all realities, undefiled by everything, detached from the appearances of all things, not grasping anything at all, is called the supreme vehicle.

Ultimately this seems like Huineng is considering Zen to be vehicle of Buddhism that simply transcends itself.

Submitted June 16, 2017 at 07:04AM by Type_DXL http://ift.tt/2tsShO4