Members of the Satsang community believe in the possibility of reaching enlightenment in this very moment, and place emphasis on personal experience. Sŏn Buddhism is generally considered a supramundane religion and also emphasizes enlightenment in daily life. Teachers in the Satsang community establish spaces for communal life, but rarely has there been a case when they transformed these communities into a religious order. On the contrary, the transmission between a Sŏn master and disciple takes place in the context of the Buddhist temple, which is one of the aspects that distinguishes the Sŏn tradition from the practices of Satsang. The aim of both Sŏn Buddhism and Satsang is to help students to breakthrough ignorance, and directly see the self-nature through innate wisdom. Both Sŏn Buddhism and Satsang highly celebrate the question-and-answer method as a way to lead students (or attendants) to enlightenment. If the Satsang of the West is a teaching that focuses on healing problems and human suffering, then the Sŏn Encounter Dialogue can be considered an educational structure that heals ontological suffering by working through basic ignorance. In Sŏn Buddhism, the Sŏn encounter dialogue leads to an instantaneous enlightenment experience brought about at the moment of mind-to-mind transmission, which is expressed as “ŏnhabyŏno” (Spontaneous enlightenment upon hearing a word). In the case of Satsang, a “transmission” is when a person engages in a question-and-answer with a teacher and discovers the root of the problem one harbors and thereby converts one’s attitude towards life through this spiritual experience.