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e connected with all others. When one meditator, Mr.<br />

A, takes a person as the master, all other persons of the<br />

ten Dharmadhatus may be his family. At the same time,<br />

any other meditator, Mr. B, C, etc., takes another in the<br />

family of Mr. A as the master, <strong>and</strong> all persons other than<br />

him may be his family. Thus, master yet family, family<br />

yet master—they all are in sunyata emergence. Again,<br />

one master has his inner family, outer family, small<br />

family, big family, appeared family, disappeared family,<br />

small family in the big family, big family in the small<br />

family. Their transformations are at the will of the<br />

master without any restriction.<br />

It is said that very few persons know that sunyata is not<br />

negativism. A philosophic <strong>and</strong> positive potentiality is<br />

within it. Also, few meditators or scholars know the<br />

differentiation between the ten goodnesses <strong>and</strong> the six<br />

paramitas, which I shall deal with below.<br />

F. Distinguishing the Six Paramitas from the Ten<br />

Virtues <strong>and</strong> Diligently Practicing the Former<br />

1. Liberated Charity<br />

To give alms to the poor frequently <strong>and</strong> in an amount<br />

even greater than the whole world is goodness that will<br />

bring rebirth in heaven, but to be liberated from heaven<br />

<strong>and</strong> earth, one must give alms with the sunyata in which<br />

there is no giver, no giving, <strong>and</strong> no object of giving. By<br />

this liberated charity, one may approach the liberation<br />

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