Part 1b.1d - Knowing these occasions

By becoming familiar with these, in the three realms of samsara,
The three gates are confused, and there are formations of suffering.

Occasions of awareness of alaya unconnected with the path of liberation occur in the stable samadhi of one- pointed resting and the stable conceptionless luminosity of vipashyana meditation. The subsequent arising of objects, with the predominant condition of the six senses, in their accumulated coarse awareness of good and evil, is the formless, form, and desire realms. The reason this occurs is that liberation is not accomplished, and grasping and fixation are not transcended. Even grasping the non-thought of samadhi and resting in it one-pointedly without distraction involves fixation.

Pure dhyana is meditation in the style of skillful means, the great compassion, and prajña that meditates without abiding in the two extremes. It has no phenomenal complexities of perceiver and object.. The state being described has no one-sided nihilistic meditation. It is connected with the natural state incomprehensible by thought, and with the happiness and bliss attained from it. Though miracle and higher perceptions are attained, there is no arrogant gloating and pride in them. There is no fixation of characteristics.

Therefore this other nihilistic meditation is eliminated. Such meditation does not go beyond samsara. It is obvious that today’s meditation has strayed into the common-path meditation of the extremists etc. Nor is it seen to have the intrinsic buddha qualities.