Inside Vasubandhu’s Yogacara A Practitioner’s Guide 1st edition by Ben Connelly ISBN 1614292841 978-1614292845

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ISBN 10: 1614292841
ISBN 13: 978-1614292845
Author: Ben Connelly

A practical guide to Vasubandhu’s classic work “Thirty Verses of Consciousness Only” 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 “Thirty Verses.” 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 voice unpacks and contextualizes its wisdom, showing us how we can 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. “Thirty Verses on Consciousness Only,” or “Trimshika,” is the most concise, comprehensive, and accessible work by this revered figure.

Vasubandhu’s “Thirty Verses” lay out a path of practice that integrates the most powerful of Buddhism’s psychological and mystical possibilities: Early Buddhism’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 “Thirty Verses” 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 matter—how do we alleviate suffering through shedding our emotional knots and our sense of alienation?

This is a great introduction to a philosophy, a master, and a work whose influence reverberates throughout modern Buddhism.

Inside Vasubandhu’s Yogacara A Practitioner’s Guide 1st Table of contents:

1. Self and Other

2. The Eight-Consciousnesses Model

3. Store Consciousness

4. Aspects of the Buddhist Unconscious

5. Mind Makes Self and Other

6. Stuck on the Self

7. Seeing Through I, Me, and Mine

8. The All

9. Mindfulness of Phenomena

10. Five Aggregates, Five Universal Factors

11. Cultivating Seeds of Goodness

12. Being with Suffering

13. Taking Care of Suffering

14. Not Always So

15. The Water and the Waves

16. On Thinking

17. Projection Only

18. The Process of Consciousness

19. The Ripening of Karma

20. Three Natures

21. Dependence and Realization

22. The Harmony of Difference and Sameness

23. No Own Nature

24. Three Natures, All Without Self

25. Four Ways to Express the Inexpressible

26. How We Are Bound

27. Thinking About It Is Not Enough

28. Being at Rest

29. Transformation at the Root of Suffering

30. The Blissful Body of Liberation

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