The Doctrine of Awakening

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The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts is a book by Julius Evola. First published in Italian as La dottrina del risveglio in 1943. It was translated into English in 1948 by H.E. Musson, and republished in 1997 (ISBN 0-89281-553-1).

[edit] Table of Contents

  • Translator's Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
    • Part I: Principles
  • 1. Varieties of Ascesis
  • 2. The Aryan-ness of the Doctrine of Awakening
  • 3. The Historical Context of the Doctrine of Awakening
  • 4. Destruction of the Demon of Dialectics
  • 5. The Flame and Samsaric Consciousness
  • 6. Conditioned Genesis
  • 7. Determination of the Vocations
    • Part II: Practice
  • 8. The Qualities of the Combatant and the "Departure"
  • 9. Defense and Consolidation
  • 10. Rightness
  • 11. Sidereal Awareness: The Wounds Close
  • 12. The Four Jhana: The "Irradiant Contemplations"
  • 13. The States Free from Form and the Extinction
  • 14. Discrimination Between the "Powers"
  • 15. Phenomenology of the Great Liberation
  • 16. Signs of the Nonpareil
  • 17. The Void: "If the Mind Does Not Break"
  • 18. Up to Zen
  • 19. The Ariya Are Still Gathered on the Vulture's Peak
  • Index

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