Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

with practice, their void nature can be known, but we
must beware of the mistake of thinking of them simply
as nothing.
d. Fourth meditation. The last method is the meditation
on the mind in the three times, for neither in the past,
nor in the present, nor in the future is the mind
attainable. This meditation is given according to the
Diamond Sutra.
These four meditations are on the nature of sunyata but
not on its conditions, so now we come to a
consideration of these:
2. Meditations on the Dependent Conditions of Sunyata
a. Fifth meditation. This is according to the translation
of the Diamond Sutra made by Kumarajiva (one of the
six translations of this sutra into Chinese and probably
the most well-used and popular). Six similes are given
which illustrate our point; while in other translations
more than six occur, still these seem to be quite
sufficient. One should think about all these six things as
manifestations of sunyata and neither regard them as
nothing, nor as "things" possessed of self or essential
nature. These are suitable for neophytes to practice, and
they are easy to meditate upon either after the
completion of the Hinayana practices, or to be used
alongside them.
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