Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Sutra discourse on the unattainability of the mind in
the past, present, and future? (See Ch. X, Part One,
D, 1, d.)"
4. The Yoga of Identification
a. Identification.
Again the yogi pointed out an error in the title of the
translation:
This yoga does not mean bringing things together in an
"At-one-ment," it means identification.
b. Similes. Regarding the three similes given, sleep and
dreams, (109f), water and ice (113f) and water and
waves (116f), are already found in the Mahayana, but
whereas the subject is the same, here the object of the
similes is different. In Mahayana, they are used to
illustrate sunyata, while here their object is the
Enlightened Entity itself, and not merely theory. They
do not here refer to the sunyata of the mind (as
followers of the exoteric schools might suppose), they
indicate that everything must be identified with the
Enlightened Entity, and when one truly knows this, then
one will understand properly what these similes mean.
i. Sleep and dreams. Sleep is analogous to the
Enlightened nature and dreams to the manifestation of
that Enlightenment. Thus, all three similes depend on
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