Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

a murderer. That man went at night to the marshal's
room. There he saw Chang Fei lying down quite still but
with his eyes wide open. He did not, therefore, dare to
approach. Waiting, he saw that the marshal did not
move so he came a little closer. The marshal did not see
him. Then hearing a snore, he knew that he was asleep
and quickly cut off his head. Even while dead the eyes
continued staring. Sleeping with eyes open is a sign of a
man of anger.
It is a bad doctrine where rules are a hard and fast
certainty. Students of yoga must distinguish this matter
by their own wisdom, and by their own
self-examination use whatever is beneficial.
5. Is it correct to say that in the Hinayana,
"samadhi" is used in the sense of Mr. Chen's
"samatha"? (See Ch. III, B.)
"Samadhi" is a common term applied to a number of
meanings, such as dhyana, samatha, and even may be
used to describe the meditative states experienced by
non-Buddhists. We have already settled for the highest
sense of the word (Full Enlightenment).
It is necessary to decide what one means by terms with
such a wide range of meanings. The Hinayana, for
instance, speaks of all the dhyanas of form and the four
of formlessness as being samadhis. Even between these
two groups there are considerable differences:
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