Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c8.s5.11

c8.s5.11

In the Hinayāna system also, an adept after completing the sīlas attempts to rise higher and higher in the training of mind through samādhi.¹ The Visuddhimagga² treats in detail the practices that are classed under samādhi. They are the four jhānas with the help of forty kammaṭṭhānas (bases of meditation), ten anussatis (objects of remembrance), four brahmavihāras, the four āruppa (higher) jhānas, two bhāvanās, ten iddhis, and six abhijñās, all of which, it will be observed, are included in the third bhūmi. The Visuddhimagga also tells us that an adept after completing the citta practices becomes an Anāgāmi, i.e., he will not be reborn any more in the Kāmadhātu.³ He gets rid of the five orambhāgiyas (lower), viz., sakkāyadiṭṭhi, vicikicchā, sīlabbataparāmāsa, kāmacchanda and vyāpāda,⁴ completely destroys rāga, dosa and moha, and removes wholly kāmāsava, and partially bhavāsava and avijjāsava.¹ He comes into existence as an upapātika (self-born ²) and attains Nibbāna.