Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Sutra where it is said:
"If any sentient being meets this doctrine,
And practices it diligently day and night,
In this lifetime that person will attain the stage of
joy,
And after sixteen lives will be Fully Enlightened."
The Eastern tradition makes a mistake: it says that if
you visualize the sixteen bodhisattvas in the vajradhatu,
then on the principle of one bodhisattva meditation to
one life, when all sixteen are perfectly accomplished
then comes Full Enlightenment. This is a great mistake.
I just believe the stanza as it stands, and it says quite
plainly that the utmost one may expect from these
practices in this life is to attain the first stage of the
bodhisattva path (paramudita). Then one might ask:
practicing this doctrine for sixteen lives without the
higher anuttarayoga, would one even then get Full
Enlightenment? Any person who has gathered sufficient
merits to gain the first stage or more as a bodhisattva
will automatically meet with anuttarayoga and would
not "get stuck" practicing only the yogatantra. From this
we can see that those who state that the yogatantra is the
highest are not even persons within the series of sixteen
lifetimes.
It is believed in Tibet that without anuttarayoga there is
no possibility of Full Enlightenment.
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