Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

As these four mindfulnesses are always used in
conjunction with the breath, so the bridge is now
complete and we may cross over.
We have now passed across to consider the Mahayana
meditations. Many classifications of sunyata exist, but I
have selected these four where the correspondence with
the four mindfulnesses is both close and striking:
a. From the body's impurity, we go to the sunyata of
self;
b. "Feelings are painful" corresponds to the sunyata of
others;
c. "Mind is impermanent" aligns with non-dharma
sunyata;
d. "Dharmas' having no self" to the dharmalaksana
sunyata.
These connections are not contrived, for there is a true
and easily seen correspondence. With our diagram this
may be clearer. For these reasons we can say that the
mindful meditations truly form a good bridge (for these
see Ch. X, Part One, D, 1, c and Part Two, A, 4).
I. How Do They Correspond with the Vajrayana?
The correspondence here is of two kinds: with the lower
three yogas as taught in Japan, and with the anuttara
yoga practiced in Tibet.
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