Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

e. First, to meditate on a sunset is a doctrine related to
Hinayana practice and no such object is used in the
Vajrayana.
f. The "total" meditations (l and m) concern sunyata
nature (the Buddha-form) and sunyata conditions (his
surroundings) and this is, therefore, a practice of the
Mahayana and not of the Vajrayana.
E. Idealist School (Vijnanavada-Yogacara)
Meditation
This is always mistaken by scholars to be a school of
learning and not one of practice. Even the followers of
this school themselves think only of learning the
doctrine and of becoming scholars with much
knowledge of philosophical subtleties, but few have any
thought of following the Buddha. To correct this wrong
tendency, I have introduced these five meditations
which indeed have not been mentioned by many others.
Xuan Zang transmitted knowledge of them to Kui Ji, his
chief disciple, and he in turn taught them to his students.
However, neither the great master nor those who have
followed him practiced them, and they are not well
known or to be found in common books. To understand
them, one should know of the four parts into which this
school divides consciousness: form-consciousness (of
"exterior" objects), view-consciousness (when one
thinks about them), and two further—self-witness
consciousness and the witness of self-witness
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