Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

then they are three-in-one; but seeing the unity between
them (for the Vajrayana includes the other vehicles),
then they are one-in-three.
Now, having remembered the unity in diversity and the
diversity in unity of our Teaching, we should tonight
first say something about the Mahamudra.
A. Mahamudra Meditation
There are two ways to attain this practice, as we have
already described: either through the third initiation's
practice, as the Yellow Sect says is necessary; or else
without the vajra-love methods, coming directly to the
fourth initiation, as the Red Sect holds. First, we will
give an outline of Mahamudra, and follow that with
detailed descriptions. In the practice of Mahamudra
there are four steps:
First, the concentrated yoga of Mahamudra.
Second, the yoga of renouncing false theory: all theory
is false talk.
Third, the yoga of identification. This is the practice of
Mahamudra in daily life.
"I have written a short poem in English to illustrate
this," said Mr. Chen, and he produced a notebook
from which he read the following:
In single mind
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