Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

j. His first attendant, Mahasattva Guan Yin
(Avalokitesvara).
k. His second attendant, Mahasattva Vajrapani.
l. The meditation on all these things taken together.
m. Meditating first on the Buddha and then on his
surroundings. (The reverse of the preceding
meditations).
n. The highest stage of attainment, when the Buddha
accompanied by his bodhisattvas comes to meet the
practitioner.
o. The intermediate stage, when Avalokitesvara and
Vajrapani come alone.
p. The stage of least attainment, when in meditation one
sees only the lotus prepared for oneself.
Really there are only twelve meditations here; there is
no need for the last four. The last three are not practices
at all, but realizations, but they are treated as
meditations in the sutra, and by this tradition the Pure
Land School always speaks of "sixteen samapattis."
2. These may seem like the practices of the Vajrayana;
what are the differences?
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