Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

thoughts of lust and even lead to a seminal discharge.
At the middle point, the mind may be safely and
usefully concentrated and then held there, a practice
known to many religions where the necessity of
developing calm is taught.
The practice with the rise and fall of the diaphragm
must lead to the development of calm; it cannot be
usefully practiced without this. Lacking samatha, no
insight is possible. Meditators should learn to
discriminate correctly the different types of meditation.
3. What is the importance of transferring merits
after one's practice of meditation? How can they be
transferred for the benefit of other sentient beings?
If a person asks this question, he has not yet recognized
the entity of Dharmakaya. If one recognizes it and does
not distinguish individual minds, then one is a sage; that
is, one whose mind is linked to all through the
Dharmakaya. Hence, as in Enlightenment separate
minds are not to be found, separate merits do not exist
either. Ordinary persons are only influenced by those
around them with whom they have some connections.
Even the Buddhas, to save beings, must have some
conditional link with them or their saving merits cannot
be effective.
Either one can influence beings by one's merits or else
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