Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

true Way.
B. The Whole Process of Meditation in Our
Three-in-One System Related to the Five Poisons
As a fitting conclusion to our book, we give a simplified
account of the whole system, showing how through
purification of the gross poisons effected by the five
meditations in the Hinayana, these passions (now subtle)
are sublimated in the voidness meditations of the
Mahayana, and finally transmuted into the functions of
Buddhahood in the Vajrayana. One by one, we will take
each of the five Hinayana meditations (see Ch. VIII)
and show the gradual processing of the poisons in the
different yanas.
1. First Meditation
This is on the impurity of the body. Everyone is born
from the craving for a body of flesh. Craving for this
physical body, one has impure lusts and passions.
Therefore, the first thing that is necessary to bring about
cessation of the pain (duhkha, experienced because of
the passions), is quite simple: RENUNCIATION. If one
does not renounce the objects, both mental and physical,
upon which the passions arise, how will one get rid of
either these cravings or their accompanying sufferings?
After renunciation comes purification, which is
threefold: of the whole physical body, of its thirty-six
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