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voidness sublimation in the Mahayana. Without this
experience, light seen can't be that of the Dharmakaya.
Religions teaching the existence of a soul or self do not
understand the necessity of the experience of sunyata
for complete spiritual realization. Nor may one identify
the "Divine Self" or "Godhead" with the Dharmakaya,
for the former concepts may be known without any
experience of the void, whereas the latter is experienced
only after the sublimation process. Those who equate
this or that with the Dharmakaya, should be questioned
in this way: "Is this your own experience (not merely
some theory)? By what practice did you destroy the
subtle ideas of self?"
As Mr. Chen said, "Without cause, how can there be
result? Without practice, how can there be
realization?"
e. Stages of Light.
i. Hinayana. To perceive a true realization-light in the
Hinayana, one must be accomplished in the non-self
meditations. If, besides being skilled in purification and
renunciation, one has not realized that no self exists in
the five aggregates, then the true light of the arhat
cannot be experienced.
ii. Mahayana. After accomplishment of the six
perfections and the realization of non-self in persons
and dharmas, the light of the bodhisattva will issue out.
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