Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Table of Contents
Foreword.......................................................................... i
Foreword to the 1980 Edition………………………...... iii
A Note to the Readers………………………………...... vi
Foreword to the 1989 printing……………………......... viii
Foreword to the 2011 Revised Edition………………..... ix
Introduction…………………………………………...... 1
A Outward Biography
B Inward Biography
C Secret Biography
D Most Secret Biography
a The Attainment of Cause
b The Attainment of Tao (The Path or Course)
c The Attainment of Consequence: a Certainty of
Enlightenment
Chapter I……………………………………………....... 25
REASONS FOR WESTERN INTEREST IN THE
PRACTICE OF MEDITATION
A Remote cause – by reason of the Dharma-nature
B By reason of Dharma-conditions
1 Foretold by sages
2 Effect of Bodhisattvas
3 All religions have the same basis
4 Correspondences between religions
C By reason of the decline of Christianity
1 The scientific spirit
2 Post-Renaissance scepticism
3 Decline of Christian faith
4 Evolution
D Immediate cause—by reason of stresses in western daily
life
Summary
I