Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

foresight into the future, or cause the events of the
distant past to be remembered in the present—as Lord
Buddha often did. For such a one there is no limit; he
can make the future into the past and the past into the
future, and many wonderful supernormal powers occur.
These are the possibilities for our own meditation but
nobody has given instructions like these before. One
might well ask: "Why?" To me it is very surprising!
There have been so many "bodhisattvas" but they have
not set forth such meditations.
Mr. Chen laughed at this strange circumstance and
then repeated:
Surprising, yes! And difficult to understand. There was,
as we have mentioned, the sutra and sastra study school
for the prajnaparamita but not one school devoted to its
practice. Such a state of affairs is very extraordinary and
I am sorry to have to report that it is so. Therefore, we
must set up such meditations for the real practitioners
who wish to follow the Way.
c. Third meditation. The four voidnesses are listed in the
diagram in Chapter IX, and regarding these the first
meditation is on the sunyata of self, the second on the
sunyata of others, while the third concerns the sunyata
of non-dharma and the fourth meditation is on the
sunyata of dharmalaksana.
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