Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

one of study and profound scholarship.
Venerable Du Shun was different, however, and wrote a
concentrated but extensive book from his experience in
which the principles of the Dharmadhatu philosophy in
the Avatamsaka Sutra are systematized. As this
commentary is a long and difficult work, a disciple of
his, called Zhi Yan, gathered these principles into the
ten mystic gates. After him came Xian Shou, who
improved the formulation of the doctrine. His teachings
are called the "new doctrines of the mystic gates," and
we shall proceed according to these. I have reduced
these ten gates to only six, and shall give my reasons for
doing so later on.
First, let me introduce the ten gates. These, whether
taken as ten or as six, are individual meditations.
1. Individual Meditations
These are the ten mystic gates of causative functions of
truth which belong to the Avatamsaka School—the
foundation of Buddhist Tantra. (See also Takakusu, The
Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy.)
a. First is the mystic gate of perfect yoga, of the
co-relation and co-existence of all things both in space
and time. Phenomena appear to be spatially separate but
are from the view point of the Dharmadhatu—the
ultimate truth—all united in one. The same applies to
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