Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Bhante sits silently upon his chair and listens as the
work proceeds—he is the Vajrayana." Then the yogi
said, turning to the transcriber, "You have much
work: you write, you type, and often have come here
yourself to correct the chapters. Your exertions for
the good of this book correspond to the Mahayana.
And as for myself," said Mr. Chen, both humble and
smiling, "I am the Hinayana. I just talk to make you
happy! I am like a Hinayana boy in his hermitage,
sometimes doing a little meditation, but most of the
time just playing!"
Mr. Chen paused and then added: "You have come
from so far and go and I do indeed thank you for
such hard work. I have had nothing to do, only to
talk."
Although this book comes from my own words, I am far
from being a holy person. Readers should take note of
what Confucius said in this matter: "One should go
according to the words, and not by the person who
utters them." So if the words themselves are good, and
they bring about some good in this world, that is the
main thing, for I myself have no realization; these words
are all the fruits of others' realizations. What I have said
in these talks is sometimes my own opinion, but the
wisdom of the ancient sages' experiences substantiates
my words. As for my own ideas, I do not claim that
these are infallibly right, and the readers of this book
should choose by their own wisdom what is really the
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