1. IDENTITY RELATIONSHIPS OF THE SIX METHODS

                Yunmen                           

Guiyang                     Linji 

                                    (Japanese Rinzai)   

     Fayan                Zongmi                     Caodong Zong

                                                                    (Japanese Soto)

The following Master methods are appropriate for the dominant personality:

Yunmen (Aversion) , Fayan (Confusion), and Caodong (Acquisitiveness).

The tendency of the social masks, learned when the principal trait does not satiate Identity, leads to the intermediate points and each person may be located UPON that line and not necessarily upon the junction.

 At the intermediate points are:

Linji, Zongmi, and Guiyang.

 Now we can make an interesting addition to the model:

  A diagonal line cuts the six into two groups:

 Guiyang, Fayan and Zongmi

to which Contemplation of the Essence is applicable.

 and

Yunmen, Linji and the Caodong Zong

to which Contemplation of Non-discriminated Form is applicable.

Now, to complicate matters, let us consider the fourth dominating Identity of FUTURE FIXATION.

In the previous diagram we have a triangle... make this in your mind a pyramid and place Future Fixation at its peak.

My own preference and intuition place Huineng and his teachings of the Life Force function of Gladness, Compassion and Benevolent Affect at this peak.

The same now applies as there can be a further deflection of the Identity in the direction of the peak on the surface of the triangle.

Actually this is just a model and the other Identities actually have transient influences which conceptually may draw the person’s Identity reactions into the interior of the pyramid. This however has little importance for us, although it is interesting.