"Stopping"and "seeing" are sometimes referred to as the yin and yang ofBuddhist meditation—complementary twin halves of a unified whole. In essence,"stopping and seeing" refers to stopping delusion and seeing truth,processes back to basic Buddhist practice. One of the most comprehensivemanuals written on these two essential points of Buddhist meditation is"The Great Stopping and Seeing," a monumental work written bysixth-century Buddhist master Chih-i. Stoppingand Seeing,the first translation of this essential text, covers the principles and methodsof a wide variety of Buddhist meditation techniques and provides an in-depthpresentation of the dynamics of these practices.