Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

out that to study Buddhism one must discriminate and
question, but, he said, to follow the Buddha one must
only have faith. After this, Dr. Zhou wrote and asked
me if this was right. In a long letter I had to reply, "No."
In Buddhism there is no learning unconnected with
practice, and everything learned in true Buddhism must
be of a practical nature.
If one likes this school and its approach to
Enlightenment, then these meditations must accompany
one's studies.
F. Conclusion
In our meditations of the Mahayana, the main practices
were described in the last chapter and this one is really
supplementary.
The Hua Yan is very important and if this is learned, as
well as the meditation on dependent origination in
sunyata found in the last chapter, then these two will
nicely complement each other.
Du Shun, who was an emanation of Manjusri, read the
Avatamsaka Sutra carefully many times, and from the
description given there of the fifty-three powerful gurus
with their supernormal powers and mystic wonders,
with great wisdom reduced all this into some systematic
principles. He took principles from phenomena
described therein and got at the source of them, and the
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