Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

so, their goal can only be the heavens.
b. Right reverence to the Three Gems. An ordinary
person worships a God or gods just for his own
advantage, or else to benefit what he thinks of as
belonging to "himself" (family, etc.) However, one
should not blindly worship gods for selfish motives, but
rather know the Buddha-nature; when this is
accomplished, then one will obtain from it an
incomparable blessing of power into which no self or
selfishness enters.
c. If the Buddha-nature is recognized, then one knows
also prajnaparamita. This is the opposite way around to
our meditation on the perfection of wisdom.
d. One will attain some mundane wisdom. That is,
wisdom connected with the world but not of the
world—wisdom of the conditions of sunyata (fullness),
not of the nature of sunyata (voidness).
e. One will generate a great merciful mind. That is, the
compassion of the same entity naturally arises when the
Buddha-nature is known.
3. Further, we should understand our progress in a
systematic way and with the help of the diagram in the
Chapter IX.
From the purification of the Hinayana in the position of
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