Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

completely, but sometimes fight with each other. There
are no couples who totally love each other at every
moment and place.
When a woman is beloved and her lover waits for her
outside, even the shadow of a tree moved by the wind
seem to cause her lover to think that she is coming.
After they marry, however, they forget their love, even
when they are in the same room. Does the reflection in
the mirror enter the mirror? When it disappears does it
go out from the mirror? Both are delusions. Hence no
action of any dharma either comes or goes.
2. Meditating on Sunyata Conditions
a. The Ten Mystic Gates. There are ten gates with
wonderful manifestations taught by the Hua Yan School.
I have omitted four of them, which are repetitions. One
may meditate on the six gates of mystic manifestation as
follows:
i. The mystic gate of perfect yoga of the co-relation and
coexistence of all things in space and time. Since the
nature of all dharmas is sunyata, every condition of
every dharma is freely related, moves freely. This is like
a great plain which does not belong to anyone—every
person may amuse himself or herself there. Hence the
"mystic circus" brings its lions, elephants, horses,
monkeys, bears, dogs, and male and female performers;
all may play there freely. Thus is it in the great
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