Susimgyŏl (Secrets on Cultivating the Mind)

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A short tract by Pojo Chinul (1158–1210) framed as a question-and-answer manual for the new practitioner. It introduces the formula "sudden awakening followed by gradual cultivation" (頓悟漸修) that became the doctrinal signature of the Korean Jogye order. Read today as the first text any Korean Seon student studies.

tr. Robert E. Buswell Jr., The Korean Approach to Zen: The Collected Works of Chinul, Univ. of Hawaii 1983

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Bojo Jinul

Lineage: Jogye

By Bojo Jinul

• Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivationpractice-instruction
• The Mind Is Buddhaproverb
• Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivationproverb
• Tracing Back the Radianceproverb
• The Three Mysterious Gatesproverb

From Susimgyeol

• No Doctrine Outside the Mind

Sources

• contentSusimkyŏl 修心訣 (Secrets on Cultivating the Mind)

  Pojo Chinul (Jinul)

  Susimkyŏl, full text

  The Susimkyŏl, by Pojo Chinul, is the foundational primer of Korean Seon, expounding sudden awakening followed by gradual cultivation.