Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

you happy!" We all laughed.
To answer these twenty questions, I have tried to
classify them with the particular sorrow which is
their source. We shall find that they may be grouped
under three of the Five Sorrows (see Ch. VIII, F).
Because none of these questions stem from anger
and all of them are concerned with doubt, for their
classification only three remain: pride, lust, and
ignorance. Under these categories we shall find it
easy to review them.
A. Questions Stemming from the Sorrow of Pride
1. What are your instructions for those who desire to
meditate but have no guru to guide them? How can
they choose suitable meditations? (See Ch. II, A, 3).
Fundamentally, Buddhism is a religion of law. Its
philosophy is based on this; it is not a system that
encourages the glorification of persons and certainly it
actively destroys superstitions.
The Buddha has many times spoken of those
Enlightened ones known as pratyekabuddhas (Solitary
Illumined Sages). They have achieved their
Enlightenment without a guru and in the absence of a
Perfect Buddha (Samyaksambuddha). They have
worked out their salvation through reflection upon the
twelve-fold links of the chain of causation
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