Members of the Ch'an family, if you want to know the meaning of Buddha-nature, you must observe times and seasons, causes and conditions. This is called the special transmission outside the written teachings, the sole transmission of the mind seal, directly pointing to the human mind for the perception of nature and realisation of Buddhahood. For forty-nine years old Shakyamuni stayed in the world; at three hundred and sixty assemblies he expounded the sudden and the gradual, the temporary and the true. These are what is called the teachings of a whole lifetime.
A monk asked Yun Men, "What are the teachings of a whole lifetime?"
Yun Men said, "An appropriate statement."
Therefore it is said, "Shattering one's bones and crushing one's body is still not sufficient recompense; when a single phrase is understood, you transcend ten billion."
Source - The BCR (Cleary) - 14'th case.
OP: There is no particular period, saying, teaching to pass on as Dharma/Tao/Transmission ... there is only - That what is appropriate to say to each particular case depending on understanding, so the Mastery would then be complementary and not arbitrary or judgemental, would be honest in it's lack of premeditated gesture to teach Other. Zen happens just like being, by this it's not implying the lack of preparation/practice/study ... How many out there are honest in full to teach without assuming the role of Teacher?
Submitted April 15, 2020 at 02:35PM by robeewankenobee https://ift.tt/3cpYIYV
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