What if you are hanging by your teeth from a branch on a tree on a one-thousand foot cliff and someone asks you: What is the meaning of Bodhidharma coming from India? Isn’t this the whole expression of dharma transmission-cutting off words, directly pointing-as  put forth by Bodhidharma?  With your whole body, without words.  Bodhidharma practicing wholeheartedly facing the wall, facing himself, in stillness for nine years. On the edge between life and death, going beyond lif