Chan and Zen are commonly referred to as a transmission direct from mind to mind outside the scriptures, and then the comment that often arises from that, is that for a transmission direct from mind to mind outside the scriptures, there has been a great deal written about the topic, and the Heart Sutra certainly seems (to a lot of people) to follow along these lines.
The Heart Sutra is common throughout Mahayana and other traditions, and Chan/Zen/Seong/Thien/ may from the outside certainly seem to place more emphasis on it due to the very obvious reasons for anyone who has read it, yet there again rises much commentary on this very topic.
There has been much written and spoken about overt reliance on forms of all sorts, including written texts, but taken in context that usually comes down to taking on a vague appearance of the matter at hand without understanding of becoming the substance of what it is getting at at all.
A child who dresses up like a fireman and yells, does not become a fireman and I cannot think of a way to express it more plainly and clearly than that.
Submitted November 29, 2017 at 09:36AM by TheSolarian http://ift.tt/2AiRALO
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