Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

nirvana are attained." What was said there all applies to
these sunyata meditations in the Mahayana.
The sunyata doctrines were mistaken as abstract
principles and taken as useful only for refutation of
non-Buddhists; meditation was not practiced to make
them into a concrete realization. But the reader has the
chance to do this, as these meditations have now been
constructed for him. Our readers, however, must pay
attention: it is very important to understand the phrase
in our definitions concerning "abstract made concrete,"
and to make this process clearer we shall talk about it
here at some length. (See this Part, 5.)
The final phrase also requires a word or two: How is the
embodiment of nirvana attained? Nirvana is the entity of
sunyata and one who realizes this attains to nirvana.
3. The four "boundless minds" are processed through
the sunyata meditations and converted from infinity in a
mathematical sense to a true philosophic boundlessness.
By way of this processing, they become identified with
the Dharmadhatu, which is endless, since it is without
space limitations. To convert them in this way, they
must be associated with the practice of the first three
paramitas and the functioning of the bodhicitta.
4. All the sunyata meditations outlined here correspond
with the nine Hinayana meditations of the last two
chapters. How? In this way:
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