Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

y mind, speech, and body.
The power of meditation must reverse the usual order of
the factors, so that a stopping of one of these twelve
factors automatically leads to the inhibition of the
following one. In this way, these factors—all depending
on ignorance and craving (trsna)—are destroyed one
after another. This system corresponds to the Four
Noble Truths taught by the Buddha, but is not deep
enough to reveal Thatness (tathata) which is the Lord's
causation-teaching in the Mahayana.
In the Great Vehicle, as we have seen many times, all
sorrows are sublimated in sunyata. From the sunyata
arises knowledge of the causation by tathata. This is not
merely a stopping, but a discovery of the merits of
Buddhahood from realization. At that time it is not only
easy to attain arhatship, but more than this, one can
become a prince of the Buddha, a bodhisattva.
However, according to the holy salvation of
Buddhahood, all holy causation has some
correspondence with all sentient beings, which are to be
saved in this life. This cannot be done in the Mahayana.
The six perfections (paramita) can only be regarded as
skillful means for those who wish to follow the Buddha
as bodhisattvas. Even to reach up to the first stage of
bodhisattvahood is very difficult and takes an immense
amount of time, for so many things have to be done for
innumerable beings. Bodhisattvas find it impossible to
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