Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

and found among the Vedanta Hindus. In the case of the
latter, the process of sublimation in the fires of the
sunyata meditations is absent. Only after penetrating the
nature of voidness is one entitled to speak of the "Great
Self" of nirvana.)
Bhante Sangharakshita added: "After all, 'self' is a
word, and all words are relative. Buddhists,
therefore, should not be afraid of this word."
These changes all depend upon the Buddha-nature of
sunyata, which is like a great furnace, and out of the fire
of wisdom are born these sublimated elements of
Mahayana realization.
Bhante interjected between Mr. Chen's words that
this was the true alchemy, for the results of which so
many fruitlessly sought in so many wrong
directions.
D. How to Transmute These into Vajrayana
Meditations in the Position of Consequence
Again, we refer the reader to the diagram of the four
mindfulnesses.
1. The Body is Impurity. This process continues through
the stages of the Hinayana where it is considered from
the point of view of impurity, death, the corpse
meditations, etc., to gain detachment from it, and
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