Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Correspondence of Hinayana and Mahayana
Meditations
1. The "four unborns" correspond to "all dharmas
without self" (9);
2. The "eight negatives" correspond to "discrimination
of elements" (4);
3. The "four voidnesses" correspond to "all dharmas
without self" (9);
4. The "unattainability of mind in the three times"
corresponds to "mind is impermanent" (8);
5. The "six similes of the Diamond Sutra" correspond to
"dependent origination" (3), "all feelings are painful"
(7), and "the body is impure" (1, 6);
6. The "ten mystic gates of sunyata according to the Hua
Yan School" corresponds to "the twelve nidanas of
dependent origination" (3);
7. The "victorious bodhicitta" corresponds to "the
merciful mind" (2);
8. The "three wheels of sunyata" corresponds to "all
dharmas without self" (9);
9, 10. "Breathing with sunyata" corresponds to
breathing as taught in the Hinayana (5).
(For easy reference, the ten sunyata meditations,
numbered, are shown above with their corresponding
Hinayana meditations numbered one to nine.)
5. Here we should explain our diagram. This one is
explained by the simile of a stone thrown into a calm
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