Sublime

meditation and Buddhist rituals, helps to cut through narrow-mindedness and strengthens your resolve to overcome negative patterns of behaviour that may be holding you back.

In the fourth samādhi, even that ānanda is not there but just awareness of individuality. You contemplate the “I-ness.”

According to the Mahayana, you should treat whoever introduces you to the sutra of Prajnaparamita like the Buddha because the truth of nonduality is so priceless.

teachings or by the intellect” (Muṇḍaka III.2.3). Only puruṣa can know itself. But mind can, however, redirect awareness back to its own original source and thus indirectly reflect puruṣa, just as a mirror can reflect a face. In other words, puruṣa can become aware of itself by means of the reflective nature of the pure sāttvic mind.