Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

The subject matter of this appendix is to be found in all
three yanas, but in the Vajrayana it is called "Inductive
Yoga" and in Chan, "Daily Life Chan." We may
conveniently call both by our common title which has
become quite well-known now.
Daily Life Chan is yoga in the position of consequence,
but Inductive Yoga is found in all three "C"'s. Even in
Hinayana and Mahayana, the practitioner should
integrate all the affairs of everyday life into his yoga
practice. Among persons with no religion, the main
thing in life is money and how, with that money, to
acquire great wealth. The religious man is different. For
him, time is most important and all his time is spent in
religious work, except when resting between his
meditations; and even rest-periods should be utilized to
complement the meditation. In this subject we should
first know the principle and after that the practice.
A. Principle
This first part is a guide from which one may know how
to take all the various affairs of daily life and bring them
into a yogic discipline.
1. From his wisdom of hearing and thinking, the yogi
should establish the Buddhist philosophy of life and of
the universe, and no other thoughts should be allowed to
mix with this one, centered on Buddhist principles.
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