Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Chapter XIV
THE HIGHEST MEDITATIONS IN THE
TANTRA—MAHAMUDRA AND THE GREAT
PERFECTION
The clouds of war, mentioned in the introduction to
an earlier chapter, had become more ominous, and
threatened to blot out even more of the lands where
the sun of the Buddha's Dharma shines. A knock on
the door, a request to pack—in this way the Chinese
population of Kalimpong, at one time of
considerable size, was very rapidly being whisked
away.
Bhante and the transcriber set off briskly from their
vihara, fearing lest the book's source might
disappear before completion of the work. As they
approached Mr. Chen's hermitage, they saw with
relief that his windows were open. Bhante said,
"This may be our last meeting." Mr. Chen, however,
was overjoyed to see the two bhiksus. He said, "I
thought you might be afraid to come," at which the
listener protested. The yogi, purely a Buddhist
hermit and quite uninterested in political activities,
seemed quite unperturbed by the threatened break
in his seclusion. Indeed, judging by his composure,
he might well have expected another thousand years
of hermit-life in Kalimpong!
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