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Chih-i(智顗) systemized his independent method of confession(懺法) which is combined confession(懺悔) with the Samādhi of Lotus(法華三昧) handed down by Hui-ssu(慧思). The four kinds of Samādhi(四種三昧) definitely reveals it. Therefore, he said that Buddhist Practice is based on the discipline of confession(懺悔行) and that is the Buddhist Practice. Shortly speaking, there is no mokṣa(解脫) without disclosing one's own sinful things(罪業性). It arises from deliberating on the nature of human being and isn't obtained by escaping from reality. Chih-i, following up the Samādhi of Lotus handed down by Hui-ssu, arranged prevailing various kinds of confessional methods in those days into that of Four kinds of Samādhi. And his confessional methods of the Lotus (法華懺法) is remarkably distinguished in the samādhi of half-moving, half-sitting meditation(半行半坐三昧) of the Four kinds of Samādhi. It is the characteristics of the confessional methods of the T'ien-t'ai(天台懺法) that the confessional methods of prayer chanting(禮佛懺悔) and moving mind(運心), the ultimately true feature and right contemplation(實相正觀) are based on it.