Joe has expressed below my understanding of inca. It is a permission to teach, and does imply that the recipient both wants to and is able (in the opinion of his teacher)to teach.
...Bill! --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote: > > RAF, > > > and what did they or their heirs say in regard to their awards of inka? > > By the way, when it comes to _inka_, a thought comes to mind about what it > signifies. > > Inka is given to a student who has awakened, and who has finished the formal > part of training in the Master's lineage. But there are two other conditions > which must obtain. These are, that the student must want to teach; and, that > the student must be ABLE to teach. The student's feeling able to teach > sometimes depends on the student having a place to teach, a space, a setting, > in which to teach (rather than just out in the open air, for example). > > So, Inka is a seal of approval of a student's realization and worth, and an > acknowledgement that the teacher knows that the student wants to teach and > that he/she CAN teach. On the latter point, the student has probably served > as an apprentice teacher under the master, and been trained in teaching, and > has demonstrated ability, there, and been accepted by students training under > him/her. > > I've just given a little fleshing-out of what I've gathered over the years > that inka "means". > > Yet, I find no answer to your question arising in me over the past days. > > Now, *these* "answers" are publicly available: my teacher Sheng Yen writes > something of his training and experience and his being given authority to > teach in two lineages of China, in his autobiography, FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW > -- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHINESE BUDDHIST MONK, 2008, Doubleday. It's a > small book, 208 pages, and he calls this account of his life > "impressionistic, and not a perfect record" (I don't think I've known > another autobiographer ever to admit that). > > --Joe > > > > R A Fonda <rafonda@> wrote: > > > > On 12/9/2012 11:10 AM, Joe wrote: > > > There are confirmatory signs which a teacher can recognize > > > > I find myself more interested in the occasions when a /teacher/ emits a > > sign of /their/ illumination. Might you, or Bill, share with us some > > instances you have encountered in your time immersed in the American zen > > scene? You have mentioned Bernie whatshisname and Aitken, for instance; > > what did they do or say that stands out in your memory? Of course, I > > don't mean to confine such observations to them, and what did they or > > their heirs say in regard to their awards of inka? > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
