Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

self-witness and keep only the "king of consciousness"
in its pure nature, without any self-witness or thought
arising from the pure consciousness. In the third stage,
one still has some doubt concerning existence—one is
troubled by the self-witness. One has to get rid of it by
keeping only the pure "king of consciousness."
e. The fifth and last stage is to rid oneself of both
imaginary nature and independent nature and keep only
the ultimate nature of pure consciousness in its perfect
attainment. The self-witness and the proof of
self-witness both lose their functions. Only the pure and
perfect nature of consciousness remains. Hence the
Idealist school's meditation is fully achieved. The only
work that remains is to know that this pure
consciousness itself is sunyata, so one comes to the
sunyata school meditation. Without meditating on
sunyata the wisdom of Buddhahood is not available.
E. Distinguishing the Truth of Non-egoism in
sunyata from the Ego of Possession
All religions emphasize that there is a soul, higher self,
or spirit which is the master of a being who may
descend into hell or ascend into heaven. It does not die
and on it depends transmigration when it descends (in
some religions), though it may unite with the god when
it ascends. Buddhism admits this only as the eighth
consciousness. Above this eighth consciousness, when it
is sublimated through meditation upon non-ego (sunyata)
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