Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

correspondence between place and mind, and the
dharmas of mind do not depend on direction, race, or
geography. In the Abhidharma of the Idealist School,
dharmas are divided into five groups, and this point is
clearly stated in the fourth group, containing 24
elements dissociated from mind
(citta-viprayukta-samskara).
Everybody, therefore, may receive the blessings of the
Dharmakaya (see the Sutra of Wei Lang, translated by
Wong Mou Lam). It appears everywhere, in every time,
and in every being; therefore, there is certainly no
reason why a Westerner or any other person in any
place would be unable to practice Buddhist meditation,
as the foundation for it is everywhere present. At every
point there is North, South, East, and West, even to the
sides of a finger (to demonstrate which Mr. Chen held
up a rounded hand), and so there are many of these
directions all relative to one another. How, then, is it
possible for anyone not to receive the Dharmakaya's
grace?
(Note: We should not make the same mistake as some
scholars, who have equated this Dharmakaya with the
Creator-God of theistic religions. To do so is to confuse
a God who knows he is God, and moreover knows (or
rather imagines) that he has created all things at a
particular time, which is a dualistic position, with the
omnipresent and superpersonal Dharmakaya, neither
creating nor destroying, void (sunya) in its nature and
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