The Dharma of Mind Transmission: Zen Teachings of Huang-po

The great Ch’an Master, who’s Dharma-name, was Hsi Yun, resided below Vulture Peak on Huang-po Mountain, which is in Kao-An County in Hung-Chou.  He was a major disciple of Ts’ao-Ch’i, the Sixth Patriarch, and the Dharma- son of Pai-Chang.  He admired the Supreme Mahayana Vehicle and sealed it without words, teaching the transmission of Mind only and no other Dharma whatsoever.  He held that both Mind and substance are void and that the interrelationships of phenomena are motionless.