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Twenty-five hundred monks assembled on Vulture's Peak to hear the Buddha give a dharma speech. But he did not open his mouth, and only sat there, not moving. Several minutes passed. His students gazed intently at the Buddha wondering if something was wrong. ...Finally he picked up a single flower and held it aloft. Everyone looked around still waiting for him to talk about the Dharma, still wondering when he would start teaching. Only one student, Mahakashyapa, smiled broadly... The Buddha said "I transmit my true Dharma to you," and gave Mahakashyapa transmission, making him the Buddha's first successor in a lineage that continues to this day. It was a transmission without words and speech, a transmission directly from mind to mind.
-Zen Master Seung Sahn