Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Part Two
SUPPLEMENTARY DETAILS OF THE SUNYATA
MEDITATIONS
Before meeting our Yogi at the "Five Leguminous
Tree Hermitage" the listener had been manifesting
considerable Buddhist activity in Kalimpong while
the writer had been sitting quietly inspired by
reading the late Venerable Xu Yun's "Song of the
Skin Bag," just published in a Buddhist magazine.
Upon arrival at the Hermitage, both were ready to
hear Mr. Chen's words. He spoke as follows:
A. Commentary
Already we have talked upon four practical sections of
the sunyata meditations. Now we come to some
supplementary details of the nature of a commentary on
the above.
1. All the meditations we have spoken of belong to the
meditations classified as Utterly Beyond the World (see
Ch. III, C, 2, c).
2. We should know with regard to our definition of
Buddhist meditation (Ch. III, Conclusion): "... and
transform it from being abstract perception into a
concrete inner realization whereby liberation from
sorrows and false views (and the) embodiment of
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