HaikuPrajnaReining in rightness/ for mystic liberation./ A fruit of the goal.("The Yogavacara's Manual")
Hello goodreaders,
Today's #Goodreads' #MyYearInBooks is "Manual of a Mystic - The Yogavacara's Manual". Look for F.L. Woodward's 1900s translation, not the original 1800s copy. I had read this with "Vimuttimagga" and "Visuddhimagga", two primary Buddhism treatises; I am thus having a hard time remembering why I had shelved this Manual, when I know the Visuddhimagga was a more considerable source. Maybe reading one had led to reading the other. No matter; I suppose the point to take away from my vexation is one should read as much as one can about these practices in order to develop one's own practice.
This book in specific shows meditation practices that were designed to make a budding yogavacara mindful of the basic elements of reality, so that the yogavacara can rein themselves into the rightness necessary for the mysticism of the era. The vimuttimagga details these meditation practices as well, and uses them (and more) to focus on the core teachings of the Buddha, which was centered on righting oneself for liberation's sake rather than for mysticism's.
Previews of the upcoming "SM-SARA" HaikuPrajna Collection can be found here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/sm-sara.html
While I pitch my first novel, "Perennial City", the full first chapter along with rough-chapter previews can be found here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/perennial-city.html
Poetry on, and the first draft of "Spear-thrower" can be read here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html
My Goodreads' 2020 #MyYearInBooks can be seen here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/goodreads-myyearinbooks.html
Thank you for reading.
Until next time,
Allen W. McLean
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