Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

We have already talked in the last chapter about the five
poisons, or the five dull drivers, as they are called here,
which produce the klesavarana, upon which the view of
the personal ego is based. The first line of this list, then,
has been described. The second line will be the subject
of this chapter, where the samapatti of the four
mindfulnesses will be the medicine prescribed for the
five sharp drivers, the veil of knowledge, and the
attachment to the view that the dharmas have "ego."
(See also the diagram showing the four mindfulness
meditations and their correspondences in the other
yanas.)
The five meditations of the last chapter and the four of
this one are only to get rid of these factors driving us on,
the gross or dull ones and the more subtle sharp ones.
Although in both chapters only nine meditations are
described, still they are more or less sufficient to get rid
of these hindrances, which is our purpose, and we shall
find upon examination that all the other meditations are
included in them.
C. A Notice on the Five Sharp Drivers
In the Idealist School these are listed and described by
Xuan Zang in his essay on Consciousness-only. They
are also found in the Hinayana Abhidharmakosa by
Vasubandhu. It is important to understand them, for if
we do, then these enemies to our enlightenment may be
destroyed.
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