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even say that the law itself is untrue. In this they attempt
to imitate some Chinese Chan masters who have
disliked this law and denied its validity, but there is a
difference between what a Chan master says and the
proper attitude of a worldly student. One monk who
thought he was a master denied the truth of this law and,
for giving his questioner a misleading answer, suffered
birth as a fox five hundred times. For ordinary persons,
the law is true, and to deny its truth is simply to confuse
them. The highest truth known and preached by the
truly attained masters is that neither is there dependent
origination nor is there not dependent origination. We
have to be careful not to misunderstand their words by
not knowing whether they are speaking on the level of
conditioned truths or from the standpoint of final truth.
Furthermore, care is necessary in interpreting words of
some sutras and sastras. We should not take quotations
from them out of context and distort the intended
meaning. It is also not correct to take the words of sutras
too literally.
10. This is the fundamental mistake: ignorance of the
highest purpose of Buddhist meditation. This topic will
now be discussed at length.
B. THE REAL PURPOSE OF MEDITATION
PRACTICE
All the above mistakes, in gradation of gross to subtle,
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