Episode 12: A Special Transmission Beyond Words & Letters
In this episode, Roshi Allison Atwill offers insight into Zen’s signature transmission beyond words and letters.
Telling the story of infamous Japanese Zen Master, Ikkyu Sojun, and his ambivalence toward transmission, Atwill describes how our particular awakening is always tailor-made to the circumstances of our lives. It always comes through the door we least expect, and dissolves whatever sense of separation we’ve held in place throughout our lives.
Listen to learn more about the nature of awakening and how we are always receiving transmission.
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We are always receiving transmission.
— Allison Atwill
Show notes:
- What is transmission
- Two ways to look at transmission
- Where did transmission originate
- The formal transmission of becoming a Roshi
- When was the first transmission from Buddha
- How do we change during transmissions
- What happens in an “inka” ceremony
- How do we refuse transmission
In transmission something is given up. We are not the same as the person that arrives.
— Allison Atwill
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Their awakening was not going to come from following someone else’s rules or even their own rules about how to enter into awakening.
— Allison Atwill