Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

cause, one passes through the Mahayana meditations in
the position of course, where insight into the
Buddha-nature is obtained, to come finally to the
ultimate position of consequence in Vajrayana,
Buddhahood. This is the whole system of
Enlightenment. Now we are at the second stage, and the
second stage and the third will come in our chapters on
the Vajrayana.
We have this diagram, therefore, (see Ch. IX) where the
correspondences of these yanas are explained. The
relation of the four mindfulnesses is like this:
Mindfulness of the body: Through sunyata sublimation
becomes the Buddha's body with the impurities of the
former transmuted into the purity of unabiding nirvana.
Mindfulness of feelings: Through sublimation, the
painful feelings are transmuted into the pleasure of
unabiding nirvana.
Mindfulness of mind: its impermanence is sublimated
by sunyata experience to the permanence of the
Dharmakaya.
Mindfulness of dharmas: "All dharmas have no-self" is
transmuted into the Great Self of nirvana; through
sublimation, they become the karmas of the great mercy
performed through the bodhicitta.
("Great Self" here is not the conception similarly named
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