Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

ealized them." As guidance for the readers, we here
explain troubles and false realizations, arranged
according to our whole system of practice, from
Hinayana to Mahayana and then on to Vajrayana.
B. Troubles and Treatments
In this first major section, we have a number of topics,
of which the first one is:
1. Temptations
These are related to our five samapattis and the five
poisons:
a. Impurity. When we practice the Hinayana precepts,
many temptations will come. When one is practicing the
samapatti on impurity, one may experience many such
temptations. Even when I was an ordinary layman, I
tried to renounce intercourse with my wife. I was,
however, troubled in dreams by naked women who even
came to kiss me. Such women I treated as enemies and
implored Guan Yin to save me from them, though I
think now that they were not real demons but Guan Yin
appearing in different forms to test me. While I
practiced these Hinayana meditations, at the same time I
practiced according to the Amitabha School and
repeated that Buddha's holy name. When such "demons"
occurred, I had only, therefore, to call upon Guan Yin
and she always came to help me.
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