Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

one has not realized that all are in the entity of
Dharmakaya. One in many; and many in one.
Once when practicing meditation in the company of a
number of yogis of the same mandala, one of these
"schoolmates" in the Vajrayana asked me a question of
this sort. At that time I was studying the Idealist
School's philosophy and so answered him in this way:
"The eighth- or store-consciousness is not restricted to
individual minds, and does not belong to any 'person'.
Common to all sentient beings, it is vast and impersonal.
Though belonging to nobody, it is filled with everybody.
As this is the case, providing one has come to realize
this consciousness through meditation, then merits are
easily transferred." He was much pleased with my
explanation and praised it to other fellow yogis.
However, we shall not be content with that explanation
here. What, then, is to be done so that merits may be
truly transferred? Many persons imagine that they are
able to give away their merits, while other people do not
believe that it is possible to do so at all. What is the
explanation? First of all, the meditation practitioner
must destroy the self, atman, etc. that is an obstacle to
the attainment of the entity of Dharmakaya. This means
that one must have practiced thoroughly the Hinayana
meditations and have arrived at the stage of sunyata
realization in the Mahayana. When one has realized the
Dharmakaya, then he is in a position to influence others,
since the self-idea has been purified in the Hinayana and
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