Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

from minute to minute. Even the space of Kalimpong
occupied never is the same, as our globe is always
moving. I dare not say that I have been a hermit for so
long since impermanence applies both to subject and
object. It is really impossible to talk definitely of either.
But one lives from day to day and traces remain; life is
just a continuous mass of traces with nothing that can be
held to either by you or by me. But just as the
Bodhisattva went to Vimalakirti and there was nothing to
talk on but you have come so far and all this is at
command. Under such a glorified condition of you, how
could I keep in silence?
In the Tibetan tradition, biographies are divided into four
parts and as our time is limited, I shall try to compress an
outline of everything under these four headings: Outward,
Inward, Secret, and Most Secret.
Mr. Chen smiled and got up from his little wicker stool to
take some letters handed by a young postman through the
open window. He had helped the young man, a new
neighbor of his, with some money and cooking utensils.
Now, leaving his letters till later, Mr. Chen sat down and
resumed his tale:
A. Outward Biography
The outward biography concerns family, renunciation,
and impermanence and about these I shall give a brief
sketch not because it is about "I" but from gratitude, as a
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