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Huguo Shoucheng

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Huguo Shoucheng

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Huguo Shoucheng was a Guiyang school master who taught at Huguo Temple. He maintained the school's characteristic approach to teaching, which emphasized the interplay of host and guest, the absolute and the relative, through symbolic and gestural communication rather than verbal explanation.

The Guiyang school developed an elaborate system of ninety-seven circular figures (yuan-xiang) to express the relationship between the universal and the particular. Shoucheng's teaching drew on this tradition, using visual and gestural means to point to truths that resist expression in ordinary language. His contribution preserved the school's distinctive methodology during a period when the more verbally dramatic Linji school was gaining ascendancy.

Names

dharma · enHuguo Shoucheng
alias · enGokoku Shuchô
alias · enHu-kuo Shou-chêng

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  • sayingNo Outside Dharma

    (traditional attribution)

    Huguo said: "There is no Dharma outside the mind, and there is no mind outside the Dharma. When you look for the mind, you cannot find it. When you stop looking, it is everywhere. This is not something that can be given or received—each person must verify it for themselves."

    Attributed_to: Huguo Shoucheng

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