Zen Meditation Allows a Person to Focus on Truth

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In spite of the fallacious logic of this interpretation-this nullifies their teaching that teachings Flow State Training Program Review  are valueless - naive students taking it to heart use this idol to justify their neglect of serious study often with assertions that Zen is just sitting without goals and understanding that everything just is. When asked where they learned such Zen teachings they imitate their own teachers and resort to illogical generalizations. When anyone tries to probe beyond the superficial layers of dogma and blind faith up goes the idol Zen is a separate transmission outside writings.

Although it is easy to understand how and why this occurs among novitiate students who by definition are spiritually (and often intellectually) immature it is difficult to fathom the reasons senior students and teachers remain so adamant. Yet it is outside the scope of this article to suggest the possible reasons of this phenomenon. We simply point out its existence and some of its common characteristics in an effort to help beginners recognize and avoid this all too common form of idolatry.The next barrier students should be aware of is related to the first though it offers its own unique difficulties. This difficulty revolves around propagated distortions concerning the Zen tradition of mind to mind transmission.

Confusion regarding Zen transmission is not relegated to beginners or non-scholars alone many scholars as well as those within the Zen orthodoxy openly acknowledge their own muddled understandings about some of the issues surrounding transmission. One of the reasons for this confusion centers on the fact that the term transmission has been appropriated by various Zen Schools in various times to validate clarify and establish a variety of doctrines traditions and rituals. At the risk of oversimplification we might say that transmission has meant different things to different people in different times.
Two major subjects that authentic Zen schools have applied the term transmission to are teaching styles (e.g. Rinzai's teaching Tozan's teaching etc.) methods devices etc. given to advanced students (which might be misused by beginners and hinder their progress) and as public acknowledgement of a students readiness to teach.

The one subjected to the most misuse is the doctrine of mind to mind transmission. The authentic teaching of mind to mind transmission is concerned with the transmission of wisdom (prajna) from the enlightened (Buddha) mind to the (inherent) enlightened mind of students.

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