Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

This points out to us that the great majority of those
who truly have realization in the Vajrayana practice the
renunciation and voluntary poverty advocated in the
Hinayana. Here indeed is the Hinayana in the
Vajrayana.
K. What Are the Criteria for Choosing Meditations
from among the Three Yanas?
Meditators should understand clearly why we have
taken some meditations and left others in our system of
three-yanas-in-one.
1. Whatever we take from the lower yanas must be
found in developed form in the higher ones. This is not
merely my own idea but is based upon the authority of
ancient sages.
2. There should be no conflict of philosophy between
the lower and the higher. We should select those
philosophic teachings which lead us on from yana to
yana. Thus in the Hinayana we appreciate highly the
teaching of the Four Noble Truths but we must put aside
the incomplete Hinayana exposition of sunyata and
nirvana. That is, in the lower there must be something of
value for the understanding of the higher.
3. Regarding final truth, we should rely upon the
teaching of the highest yana—the Vajrayana.
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