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The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind Huang Po John Blofeld Translator
Publisher: Grove Press

The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Teaching-Huang-Po-Transmission-Mind/dp/0802150926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266257902&sr=8-1. Chinese Zen spawned what has been my favorite statement about Zen since I first encountered it when I was 18 years old, in the wonderful little book The Zen Teachings of Huang Po. €�Whoever sees me sees the teaching.” (Buddha). Realize that even what the mind conceives and conceptualizes as being "nothing", void, unmanifest or formlessness, is still within Existence. While a great deal has been written about Zen, this is a literature fraught with irony, since one of the central notions of Zen is that true understanding of the mind and world can't be transmitted in language. Surely this calms the mind, but would you get any wiser? €�Knowing others is Wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” (Lao Tzu). Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind. The following series of questions and answers are quoted from John Blofeld's translation of the zen teachings of Huang Po. (Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind). According to the traditional story, Zen of the koan (and the world and the mind). I found this interesting blog that references Trungpa, Suzuki and others today, just after reading in latest Shambhala Sun about Zen teacher Norman Fischer coming to see that Buddhism with some idea of attainment or helpfulness can be… helpful. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Sublime teaching on the non-conceptual transmission of the One Mind. Excerpt: February Going into meditation accepting the momentary, flawed state of my mind and reality and not try to change it, to rather simply be curious about it, allows me to be in the present moment. €�Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. They take this as the first in a series of wordless dharma transmission, that includes zen masters like the First Patriarch Bodidharma, who supposedly brought (zen)buddhism from India to China, Hui Nêng, the Sixth Patriarch, Huang Po, Rinzai and onwards, to present day zen masters.