Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

depression. It is the intersection of two of the
skull-bones.
Mr. Chen fetched his ritual silver-lined human skull
cup to show us these positions.
The Buddha-hole lies four fingers further back and is, in
many people, marked by a slight circular depression. If
the consciousness leaves the Brahma-hole, one may go
to heaven; whereas if it leaves from the Buddha-hole,
one gains complete liberation.
On another occasion, Mr. Chen told a story about
this meditation. He said, "When I was in China, I
was working away from my house and wife as a
college professor of classical Chinese. Then I
received a summons from my guru to lecture at the
newly established Chinese Buddhist Academy. As
this work would also take me from home, though to
a different place, I thought it only right to return to
my wife and spend a short time with her. There were
only seven days before the Academy opened, so I felt
our time together should be used to the best possible
advantage."
"Now, at that time, I had already practiced the
phowa techniques and obtained success in them, but
my wife had not yet practiced this meditation. It
seemed to us that it would be a good thing if she
could obtain realization of consciousness-
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