Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

myself in a room of my school, fasting for this time and
also keeping my excrement in the room. I just meditated
upon the Truth. On the morning of the third day, I
suddenly saw the Iron Pagoda in South India. (The
Siddha Nagarjuna took out from the iron pagoda, the
abode of Vajrasattva, the texts of Mahavairocana Sutra
and Vajrasekhara Sutra, and received instructions from
him.) And at the same moment I determined that the
Truth is that "all is this, no else talk." Since then I have
had no doubts upon the Truth. So this is a little
attainment of Right View (samyak drsti).
Altogether I have had four kinds of gurus of which the
first is called the outward. Examples of outward gurus
are my Confucian and Taoist instructors. Secondly, I
have had many inward gurus teaching exoteric doctrines,
the first of these being the Ven. Tai Xu. With others I
read the four different editions of the Tripitaka
concentrating on the Mahayana works. Even when I first
read the Diamond Sutra, I understood its meaning having
an insight into unity of the opposites. Many of these
Mahayana and Vajrayana gurus were seen by me in
dreams and meditations; such are predestined teachers
linked to the pupil. In total I have had thirty-seven
Buddhist gurus but space does not permit me to describe
them more, either their characters or their doctrines.
Mr. Chen looked up as he said this, appearing to be a
little thoughtful. Now, he said, we come on to the third
type of guru who gives one instruction in meditation and
in dreams. They are called secret or unworldly gurus; for
instance, Mahakala has given me many instructions.
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