Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

all of which are concerned with mental training, are a
stage more developed than those of the Path, which are
fixed, some referring to sila, etc. However, with
profound explanations accompanying these eight factors,
they may be arranged as the last group of the
Thirty-seven.
Of the Six Paramitas, three (sila, samadhi, and prajna)
may seem the same as factors among the Thirty-seven,
but the philosophy underlying the two groups is
different (being respectively Madhyamika and
Hinayana). Thus the samapatti also quite naturally
differs; the samapatti differs also, so it is not surprising
that the samadhis resulting are also not the same.
Similarity of names must not confuse us in these various
factors, but rather should lead us to search out the subtle
teachings. Elsewhere, this point has not been taught
clearly enough, but it is nevertheless very important and
so is stressed in this book.
If these four degrees of meditation are well known and
the individual factors among the Thirty-seven Wings are
seen to fall easily into this classification, then no one
can say they are confused by the terms or that the
various groups are complicated.
4. Realization
This is dependent on the meditation in the Five Yanas:
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