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B. Daily <strong>Meditation</strong>s for Both Hermit <strong>and</strong> Ordinary<br />

Meditator<br />

1. Firstly, for the full-time practitioner of meditation, I<br />

have organized the hermit's practice-times with<br />

meditations in the following order:<br />

Early morning practice—2 sittings<br />

(1) Breathing with the action of the bodhicitta (9)<br />

(2) Breathing on no dharma, no sk<strong>and</strong>ha (10)<br />

Before noon—3 sittings<br />

(3) The four unborns (1)<br />

(4) Karma of great compassion (7)<br />

(5) Eight negatives (2)<br />

Afternoon—3 sittings<br />

(6) The four voidnesses (3)<br />

(7) Three wheels (8)<br />

(8) Ten mystic gates of Hua Yan (6)<br />

Night—2 sittings<br />

(9) Unattainability of mind in three times (4)<br />

(10) Six similes of the Diamond Sutra (5)<br />

Thus all the sunyata meditations are arranged within one<br />

day of the meditator's practice. Notice that it ends with<br />

meditation on the simile of the dream. The meditator<br />

should hold on to this until he enters a dream state <strong>and</strong><br />

recognize it, even while he is dreaming, as sunyata.<br />

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