Heart-to-heart Transmission

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AlexMcLeod
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Heart-to-heart Transmission

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I have not found any mention of heart-to-heart transmission in other Zen/Chan schools besides my teacher's. Is this unique to his lineage, or is it just not written about frequently?
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Re: Heart-to-heart Transmission

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Hi Alex,

Perhaps some of the historians here will correct me, and I am not sure of your Teacher's situnation, but it seems a rather standard description for Dharma Transmission. In Japanese and Chinese, the character for heart and mind are the same ... "shin" in Japanese. 心, So, "mind-to-mind" or "heart-to-heart" would be written the same. For example, the expression 以心伝心 (ishin denshin) means "transmission mind to mind" or also could mean "heart to heart."

https://books.google.com/books?id=dw0Id ... 22&f=false

I hope that helps.


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Re: Heart-to-heart Transmission

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It is a basic Zen idea. It is even an idiom in Japanese. Ishin-denshin
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?

2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.

3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.

4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.


1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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Re: Heart-to-heart Transmission

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Ah. I've only ever heard his English translation of it, and looking for that term didn't really yield anything. Thanks for the clarification.
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