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The buddhadharma teaches many things: shamatha, vipashyana, skilful means, wisdom, development stage, completion stage. How should we practice these different teachings? How should we study, reflect, and meditate? It is taught that one should study, reflect, and meditate in stages, like the levels of a staircase. That is the first reason for practicing the nine yanas. The second reason is that the Buddha said that the meaning of all the vehicles agrees at one point, that all the different paths arrive at the same point. Actually, there is one vehicle, all vehicles are one, so if you aren’t able to understand all the different paths then how will you be able to understand the one point that they all arrive at? Therefore, for these two reasons I thought it would be good to make a series of books about the nine yanas available to my students.
All the different paths that the Buddha taught are complete within the nine yanas. For example, in the teachings of the sutra, the teachings of the causal vehicle of characteristics, there are the vehicles of the shravakas, pratyekabuddhas, and bodhisattvas. These are the first three of the nine yanas, the three outer vehicles. Then from among the inner vehicles, first come the three outer tantras: kriya, upa, and yoga. These three are based on the causal vehicle of characteristics, the sutra teachings, but with a little bit of the practice of the resultant vehicle of mantra. Those are the three outer tantric vehicles. The real tantra begins with maha, anu, and ati. The extraordinary teachings of secret mantra are taught in these three inner tantric vehicles where the skilful means of the development stage, the wisdom of the completion stage, and the non-dual unity of the great perfection or completion are emphasised in the maha, anu, and ati teachings, respectively.
Each of the nine yanas has their own different view, conduct, meditation, and fruition, but these different views, conducts, meditations, and fruitions are not completely divorced from each other; each one is able to clarify the meaning of the previous one, and also the next. It is like learning the alphabet. If you first learn a-b-c, then based on that you can learn how to read and start making words. In the same way, when you learn the view, conduct, meditation, and fruition of the first vehicle, it helps clarify the view, meditation, conduct, and fruition of the next vehicle.
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