Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide

Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide

A practical, down-to-earth guide to Vasubandhu's classic work "Thirty Verses of Consciousness Only"Â that can transform modern life and change how you see the world.

In this down-to-earth book, Ben Connelly sure-handedly guides us through the intricacies of Yogacara and the richness of the â€œThirty Verses.â€Â Dedicating a chapter of the book to each line of the poem, he lets us thoroughly lose ourselves in its depths. His warm and wise voiceÂ unpacks and contextualizes its wisdom, showing usÂ how we canÂ apply its ancient insights to our own modern lives, to create a life of engaged peace, harmony, compassion, and joy.

In fourth-century India one of the great geniuses of Buddhism, Vasubandhu, sought to reconcile the diverse ideas and forms of Buddhism practiced at the time and demonstrate how they could be effectively integrated into a single system. This was the Yogacara movement, and it continues to have great influence in modern Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. â€œThirty Verses on Consciousness Only,â€ or â€œTrimshika,â€ is the most concise, comprehensive, and accessible work by this revered figure.

Vasubandhuâ€™s â€œThirty Versesâ€ lay out a path of practice that integrates the most powerful of Buddhismâ€™s psychological and mystical possibilities: Early Buddhismâ€™s practices for shedding afflictive emotional habit and the Mahayana emphasis on shedding divisive concepts, the path of individual liberation and the path of freeing all beings, the path to nirvana and the path of enlightenment as the very ground of being right now. Although Yogacara has a reputation for being extremely complex, the â€œThirty Versesâ€ distills the principles of these traditions to their most practical forms, and this book follows that sense of focus; it goes to the heart of the matterâ€”how do we alleviate suffering through shedding our emotional knots and our sense of alienation?

This is aÂ great introduction to a philosophy, a master, and a work whose influence reverberates throughout modern Buddhism.Â
Country USA
Manufacturer Wisdom Publications
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-12-06
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Wisdom Publications
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-12-06
Format	Kindle eBook

Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide

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