A special transmission outside the scriptures;
No dependence upon words and letters;
Direct pointing to the soul of man:
Seeing into one's own nature and attainment of Buddhahood

"Being neither teacher nor guru, and since from the first not a thing is, the most one can do is to offer a glimpse or help point the way. In the end it resides in you"

If the above quote, which is mine, were the case, and it is, then why would a Zen adept, that is, myself, bother to indulge in something as mundane as all this and why would YOU be interested? For one thing, always lurking somewhere behind in the shadows of the mind, however distant and however heralded or unheralded, is the seeker and the adept's underlying, innate feeling toward the precepts found in the the Bodhisattva Vows....precepts not thrust upon the seeker or the adept, but that slowly unfold and blossom from a growing inner light, delicately translated into deed and action rather than ingested through or dispensed from words. As the ancient Zen proverb alludes:

Those who have not attained Awakening should penetrate into the meaning of Reality, while those who have already Attained should practice giving verbal expression to that Reality. (source)

In an interpretation from the works of the anonomyous and mysterious spiritual writer WEI WU WEI the following is offered:

"...give any information you have garnered to a fellow traveler along the Way. Why? Because the same information would have helped the person who compiled it if it had been given to him, and that is why he compiled it --- and that is why it should be offered to others along the Way."

The following is from SANNYASA: The Further Shore:

These ascetics who flee the world and care nothing for its recognition are precisely the ones who uphold the world. They are like the column (stambha) which maintains the stability of the universe.

As far as they are concerned, being known or unknown is of no importance. They go their way in secret. There is no sign to identify them, they run alinga (that which has no visible symbol), avyakta cara (avyakta: unmanifested, cara: way, manner). But society needs to know them. It needs to know that they are there, so that it may preserve a reminder of transcendence in the midst of the transient world. (source)

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QUALITIES OF A DHARMA TEACHER

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"Real Masters never charge for their services, nor do they accept payment in any form or any sort of material benefits for their instructions. This is a universal law among Masters, and yet it is an amazing fact that thousands of eager seekers in America and elsewhere, go on paying large sums of money for "spiritual instruction.". Masters are always self-sustaining. They are never supported by their students or by public charity."

---Julian P. Johnson, The Path of the Masters (1939)