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Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation COMPASSION AND EMPTINESS IN EARLY BUDDHIST MEDITATION Anālayo C&EIE pages 234x156 v13s01.indd 3 29/06/2015 11:30 Windhorse Publications 169 Mill Road Cambridge CB1 3AN UK [email protected] www.windhorsepublications.com © Anālayo, 2015 The right of Anālayo to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. As an act of Dhammadāna, Anālayo has waived royalty payments for this book. The index was not compiled by the author. Cover design by Dhammarati Typesetting and layout by Ruth Rudd Printed by Bell & Bain Ltd, Glasgow British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data: A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978 1 909314 55 9 C&EIE pages 234x156 v13s01.indd 4 29/06/2015 11:30 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND DEDICATION IX PUBLISHER’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS X FOREWORD BY H.H. THE 17TH KARMAPA XI INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter I CULTIVATING COMPASSION 5 1 THE NATURE OF COMPASSION 5 2 COMPASSION AND MORALITY 8 3 COMPASSION AND THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS 9 4 COMPASSION AND TEACHING 13 5 COMPASSION AND SECLUSION 16 6 COMPASSION IN MEDITATION 20 7 THE OBJECTS OF MEDITATIVE COMPASSION 24 8 SUMMARY 26 Chapter II COMPASSION CONTEXTUALIZED 28 1 BENEVOLENCE 28 2 KINDNESS IN DAILY CONDUCT 32 3 FACING AGGRESSION 35 4 MENTAL BEAUTY 36 5 COMPASSION AND SYMPATHETIC JOY 39 6 COMPASSION AND EQUANIMITY 41 7 COMPASSION AND THE OTHER DIVINE ABODES 47 8 SUMMARY 49 C&EIE pages 234x156 v13s01.indd 5 29/06/2015 11:30 VI / CONTENTS Chapter III MATURING COMPASSION 50 1 THE BENEFITS OF BENEVOLENCE 50 2 RADIATING COMPASSION AND ABSORPTION 54 3 COMPASSION AS A LIBERATION OF THE MIND 57 4 COMPASSION AND KARMA 59 5 COMPASSION AND INSIGHT 63 6 COMPASSION AND THE AWAKENING FACTORS 68 7 COMPASSION AND INFINITE SPACE 70 8 SUMMARY 73 Chapter IV EMPTY MATTER 75 1 THE NATURE OF BEING EMPTY 75 2 A GRADUAL MEDITATIVE ENTRY INTO EMPTINESS 83 3 EARTH 87 4 INFINITE SPACE 91 5 INFINITE SPACE AND COMPASSION 97 6 SUMMARY 98 Chapter V EMPTY MIND 100 1 INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS 100 2 THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 102 3 DEPENDENT ARISING 105 4 THE BĀHIYA INSTRUCTION 110 5 EMPTINESS IN DAILY LIFE 115 6 SUMMARY 123 Chapter VI EMPTY OF SELF 124 1 NOTHINGNESS 124 2 IMPERTURBABILITY 126 3 NOT-SELF 130 4 NEITHER-PERCEPTION-NOR-NON-PERCEPTION 134 5 SIGNLESSNESS 136 6 REALIZATION OF EMPTINESS 143 7 THE DYNAMICS OF EMPTINESS 145 8 SUMMARY 149 Chapter VII PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS 151 1 LAYING THE FOUNDATION 151 2 COMPASSION AND THE OTHER DIVINE ABODES 154 3 THE RADIATION PRACTICE 159 4 EMPTINESS MEDITATION 162 C&EIE pages 234x156 v13s01.indd 6 29/06/2015 11:30 CONTENTS / VII Chapter VIII TRANSLATIONS 170 1 THE MADHYAMA-ĀGAMA PARALLEL TO THE KARAJAKĀYA-SUTTA 170 2 THE MADHYAMA-ĀGAMA PARALLEL TO THE CŪḶASUÑÑATA-SUTTA 176 3 THE MADHYAMA-ĀGAMA PARALLEL TO THE MAHĀSUÑÑATA-SUTTA 181 REFERENceS 190 LIST OF AbbREVIATIONS 199 SUBJecT INDEX 200 INDEX LOCORUM 211 C&EIE pages 234x156 v13s01.indd 7 29/06/2015 11:30 VIII / CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in 1962 in Germany, Bhikkhu Anālayo was ordained in 1995 in Sri Lanka, and completed a PhD on the Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2000 – published in 2003 by Windhorse Publications under the title Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization. Anālayo is a professor at the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies of the University of Hamburg and researches at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts in Taiwan. His main research area is early Buddhism and in particular the topics of the Chinese Āgamas, meditation, and women in Buddhism. Besides his academic pursuits, he spends about half of his time in meditation under retreat conditions and regularly teaches meditation courses in Asia and the West. C&EIE pages 234x156 v13s01.indd 8 29/06/2015 11:30 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND DEDICATION I am indebted to Shaila Catherine, Adam Clarke, Sāmaṇerī Dhammadinnā, Dawn P. Neal, Mike Running, Jill Shepherd, and Shi Syinchen for having helped me to improve my presentation. Any shortcomings in the following pages are entirely due to my own ignorance. I would like to dedicate this book to the memory of Godwin Samararatne (1932–2000), a Sri Lankan meditation teacher believed by many to have reached an advanced level in his cultivation of the bodhisattva path, for having in a very practical way taught me compassion and emptiness in their inseparability. C&EIE pages 234x156 v13s01.indd 9 29/06/2015 11:30 PUBLISHER’S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Windhorse Publications wishes to gratefully acknowledge and thank the individual donors who gave to the book’s production via our “Sponsor-a-book” campaign in 2014 and 2015. C&EIE pages 234x156 v13s01.indd 10 29/06/2015 11:30 FOREWORD BY H.H. THE 17TH KARMAPA I am pleased to have the opportunity to introduce this book by Professor Dr Bhikkhu Anālayo, not only as a contribution to our understanding of early Buddhist meditation, but as a work of bridge- building on many levels. First of all, Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation is the result of rigorous textual scholarship that can be valued not only by the academic community but also by Buddhist practitioners. This book serves as an important bridge between those who wish to learn about Buddhist thought and practice and those who wish to learn from it. I believe this bridge-building is valuable, as academic scholarship on Buddhist texts is greatly enriched by taking into consideration the uses to which such texts are put in the lives of practitioners. As a monk engaging himself in Buddhist meditation as well as a professor applying a historical-critical methodology, Bhikkhu Anālayo is well positioned to bridge these two communities who both seek to deepen their understanding of these texts. Secondly, I also believe that those studying Buddhism within one tradition are well advised to consider the texts preserved in other traditions’ canons. Too often, we allow language to become a barrier and overlook the versions of our own texts extant in other languages. The bridge built in this book between Pāli, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan texts reveals just how widely shared the concern with cultivating compassion and understanding emptiness is. It also allows us to reflect on the nuances of the differences in their presentation in varying contexts. C&EIE pages 234x156 v13s01.indd 11 29/06/2015 11:30 XII / FOREWORD Finally, this book brings together the two topics of compassion and emptiness within a single work, and highlights the value of treating them as mutually complementary. In this way, as we might say in Mahāyāna Buddhism, Bhikkhu Anālayo has ensured that the two wings of the bird remain united, allowing meditative experience and philosophical understanding to truly take flight. 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje Bodhgaya, India 18 November 2014 C&EIE pages 234x156 v13s01.indd 12 29/06/2015 11:30 INTRODUCTION With the present book I explore the meditative practices of compassion and emptiness by examining and interpreting relevant material from the early discourses. Similar to my previous study entitled Perspectives on Satipaṭṭhāna,1 in the present case I approach matters of practice from the perspective that emerges through a comparative study of the versions that parallel the Pāli discourses, which are extant mainly in Chinese as well as at times in Sanskrit and Tibetan. Although my presentation is based on academic methodology, as a whole this book is meant for practitioners and relevance to meditation practice informs my exploration.2 In Chapter 1 I explore the nature of compassion, before moving on in Chapter 2 to a contextualization of compassion within the standard set of the four divine abodes, brahmavihāras. In Chapter 3 I study the fruits to be expected from maturing compassion. The next three chapters are dedicated to emptiness, mainly based on the gradual meditative entry into emptiness described in the Cūḷasuññata-sutta and its parallels. In Chapter 7, I provide practical instructions on how meditation practice can proceed from compassion to emptiness. 1 Anālayo 2013c. 2 For the same reason I have placed a more detailed discussion of the following topics in separate papers: in Anālayo 2015b I take up the evolution of the commentarial instructions on cultivating the brahmavihāras with individual persons as the object; in Anālayo 2015a I survey the opinions voiced by other scholars regarding the relationship between the brahmavihāras and awakening; and in Anālayo 2014d I discuss the problematic usage of the term hīnayāna. C&EIE pages 234x156 v13s01.indd 1 29/06/2015 11:30 2 / COMPASSION AND EMPTINESS IN EARLY BUDDHIST MEDITATION Chapter 8 offers translations of the Madhyama-āgama parallels to the Karajakāya-sutta, the Cūḷasuññata-sutta, and the Mahāsuññata-sutta, three discourses that are of central importance throughout my study. In order to keep alive a sense of actual practice, I try as much as possible to consider passages in light of their relevance to meditation. When on a few occasions I quote academics or meditation teachers3, my intention is not to present their statements as directly corresponding to or in some way authenticating what I am discussing. Such references only reflect the fact that in my own practice I have found what I quote helpful, even though, without having practised under these teachers, I am unable to verify the context and implications of their instructions fully. The form of practice I present in the following pages is meant to offer just one possible mode of approach, without any implicit claim that this is the only right understanding or description that fits the early discourses.
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