Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

time with earnest meditation and concentrated endeavor
is much better than a lifetime spent as a hermit in name
only, that is, lacking proper conduct.
As regards this lesson, the ordinary person should take
these meditations in rotation, maintaining the same
sequence as we have given here. Before commencing
each meditation, one of the breath-and-sunyata practices
should be practiced for a few minutes to gain a deep
samatha. As there are two of these meditations, they
may be used as preliminaries on alternate days. Thus
there will be a complete cycle of these meditations
every eight days.
C. Why Do We Say that Mahayana Meditations are
Sublimated by Sunyata?
This is because if the wisdom of sunyata can be attained,
one will get the realization of Buddhahood. Even if we
cannot meditate on sunyata, we may gain some
intellectual understanding of Full Enlightenment and
still recognize what is to be sublimated. In this
sublimation process, the Buddha-nature will get rid of
the five illnesses or errors.
1. Five negative errors corrected:
a. One will completely get rid of the lowest mind, for
once one knows the Buddha-nature then one occupies it
oneself.
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