Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

f. The function here is to destroy ignorance, and this is
achieved by the practice of these meditations.
g. Practical realization:
i. This twelve-linked wheel is the main instruction of
pratyekabuddhas. This is its instructional quality.
ii. The twelve conditions and the way they interact
in the evolution of evil and the collecting of merit is
the comparative quality.
iii. The direct quality of realization: if accomplished,
then one gains the stage of pratyekabuddha; but if
this is united with realization of mahasunyata, then
one attains to the first level of the Bodhisattva path.
h. By reason of bhutatathata: because all beings are
dependently originated and have no abiding self,
therefore bhutatathata will be attained, since it too has
no self.
4. The Meditation on the Discrimination of the Six
Elements. As a cure for haughtiness, pride, conceit, or
egocentricity, sorrows known by many names, this
meditation is recommended.
a. Its self-nature is according to the individual natures of
the elements: thus the earth-element possesses the
nature of solidity, water of cohesion, fire of heat, air of
260