Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

similarly. Again, we should notice that under the
practice of "stopping" at the time of reclining, where
Zhi Yi says, "We should recall ..." he is truly dealing
with a samapatti process. What we have said here
applies also to the sections on "doing things" and on
speaking.
As people have a chance to read this book, which is
readily available, there seems no point in paraphrasing it.
Here we have only given some examples of this curious
doctrine of mixed tranquility and insight which is
characteristic of this master's writings, along with our
comments where these are necessary to help provide a
clear and certain way.
D. Meditation in the Pure Land School
1. Sixteen Meditations
Of the three sutras particularly revered by this school,
we are concerned with only one, the Amitayur
Samapatti Sutra which describes sixteen meditations to
be visualized.
(Note, this work is usually called the Amitayur Dhyana
Sutra, but Mr. Chen emphatically pointed out that this is
a mistranslation of the Chinese and that in any case, the
meditations contained in it are not dhyanas but rather
samapatti.)
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