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Nowadays the Buddhist world seems to be gradually attaching importance to actual practice, and its slogans and aims also call for realization, yet in substance they still do not involve genuine practice and realization, nor do they know what genuine practice is or what realization is. If what is cultivated does not involve meditative concentration (dhyāna) and does not deeply permeate the manas, it is all unreal practice, like duckweed drifting unsteadily; the result is only understanding without realization, yet all believe it to be realization. If this continues, the superficially flourishing Buddhism will gradually decline; the multitude will practice blindly without knowing what they are cultivating, and there will be neither practice nor realization, so that even intellectual awakening will vanish without a trace, let alone realization through awakening. Going on like this, the true dharma of realization will become extinct and lost, or even be submerged by the flamboyant manner of learning Buddhism, with no one actually benefiting, and the raft of the Buddha-dharma will no longer be able to ferry sentient beings across. Therefore it is necessary to cry out here for genuine realization and to advocate genuine practice, so as to fulfill the Buddha's original intent, to rescue and deliver those whose good roots, merit, and conditions are complete, enabling them to swiftly achieve accomplishment, liberating themselves and liberating others.
