Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

As a precaution, Mr. Chen admitted, "This may be
our last chapter, so I have condensed the material
for the last three chapters into tonight's talk." Then,
more confidently, he said, "When you come next
time, I shall then expand on these topics." (This
condensed chapter and the Supplementary Details
have later been edited to form the present two
chapters, one on the Highest Meditations in the
Tantra and the next on Chan alone.)
We quickly got down to work. The yogi began by
saying:
Our homage is already perfected, so one is not offered
at the head of this chapter. An homage presumes a
subject who worships and an object of worship, but in
the meditations presented here subject and object are
perfectly identified. Because these highest samadhis are
non-dualistic by nature, there is no homage to offer.
However, we should conclude our chapter dedications.
We have honored three great teachers in different
chapters and for different reasons, though they were all
adepts of the Tantras: Tsong-Khapa, Milarepa, and
Padmasambhava. We explained how each of them
emphasized some particular part of the Buddhadharma.
Now we can see that taken all together, they are
patriarchs respectively of the Hinayana, Mahayana, and
Vajrayana. Knowing that they are all Vajrayana masters,
who have each propagated a different aspect of Dharma,
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