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le. The translator, Woodward mentions a bhikkhu, Doratiyaveye,
that was still alive in Ceylon in 1900, and had received directamenie of
its the coach refused to practice, fearing al -
direct actions reach Nirvana because as was Boddhisattava, I-many still live many lives
on earth. But home to one of his disciples yogavacara in practice, and this disciple went
mad and died. Do so that, according to Woodward, no one knows already the practice in
Ceylon, and confusion of the text remains unresolved. The structure of the technique
yogavacara is understandable but a shame that the most interesting, or exact details of the
income meditations, remain unaware.
The essential feature of this technique is a complex meditation concerning the
"elements". EI ascetic yogi sits in posture (asana) and pranayama begins, focusing on
respiratory phases, ie, "comprising", "penetrating" every aspiration and each expiration.
Then the ascetic said: "With the conscience of the eye is looking towards the tip of the
nose, with the consciousness of the pen-cessing fixed on the fixed expiration and
aspiration in the heart of thinking and how I prepare with the word Arahan, Ara-have ".
The comment Sinhala adds: "When you have set your mind in that way, alert and kind,
appear before the two ima-ments; first 'a mixed picture, then a clear picture. Once the
image disappears confusing (... ) and when the picture is clean, purified of all impurities,
has permeated his whole being, then, passing over the threshold of the spirit alia dia-Heat
Element (tejodhatu). \ n this item, ecstasy has lucerd the color of sunrise, the Preamble is
yellow, the in-trade is the color of the sun that rises in the east. By developing these three
ways of thinking heat element, making-them down from the tip of the nose, the ascetic
must put in coraz6n, then the navel "(Manual of a Mystic, pag. 8).
Despite its relative obscurity, the text is understandable. The ini-nanced should meditate
successively on the "elements", fire, water, earth, air. Each meditation includes, apart
from the preliminaries, three stages: entry (access), the preamble and the ecstasy. Each of
these stages corresponds to a "color", ie that the ascetic experiences a light sensaci6n
specifies that while checks and drives her reverie. But he found these "thoughts coughforms"
through concentration on the tip of the nose is then necessary to make them move
from that "center" to the centers for the heart and the navel. After the meditation
concerning the element "heat" the ascetic-repi-ing continues exactly the preliminary
stages, meditation concerning the element "water", or more exactly meditation
concerning the cohesion (apodhatu, as the essential virtue of the water is the cohesion).
The "colors" experienced by meditation concerning the element "water" are the color of
the moon vine for Ecstasy, the color of the Lotus for the preamble, the color of a yellow
flower for the entry.
In the following meditation, concerning the vayodhatu (the element "air" which reflects
the mobility), the color of Ecstasy is the midday sun, the color of the Preamble is orange,
the Entrada is indigo. And so on. In each meditation, the "colors" so obtained by
concentrating on the tip of the nose, should be placed in the two centers mentioned
above. Each meditation on the tejodhatu corresponds khanikapitti, ie "the arre-batamiento
momentary" a meditation on the apodhatu corresponds okkantika-pitti, "the rapture
invader"; a meditation on the vayodhatu corresponds ubbega-pitti The "Rapture
transports-dor", etc..
After completion of the meditations on the elements, try the meditation concerning the
four items at a time, after meditation in reverse, and so on. The "Manual" includes