Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

I am very thankful to you for your suggestion that I
should speak on the reasons people are interested in
practicing Buddhist meditation. You have come from
afar to listen and write. Once when the Buddha was
about to preach, he noted Vimalakirti's absence from the
assembly, and although he could have preached much
more thoroughly himself, out of humility he sent his
Prince of Dharma, Manjusri, to hear the words of the
famed lay Bodhisattva. In the same way, you were born
in the noble country of England, and although you know
all this much better than I, still you have humbly come
from a great distance and I must speak.
Mr. Chen is pointing out here that it is the duty of
not only the ordained Sangha to preach the Dharma,
but it is also an obligation of the layman to do so if
he is able.
The last time our talk was from the outside inward;
today it will be the reverse, and in this chapter we shall
go from the remote to the immediate cause of the
interest of the West in practicing meditation.
A. REMOTE CAUSE—BY REASON OF THE
DHARMA-NATURE
The Dharma-nature is unlimited by either space or time,
and neither East nor West imposes any limits upon it.
The Buddha's Dharmakaya embraces the Dharmadhatu
and neither East nor West is outside it. There is no
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