A FIELD GUIDE TO INFINITIES
⛛ ⛛ ⛛ ⛛ ⛛ ⛛ ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE MODES OF MEDITATION From the Vijñāna Bhairava Translated by the Kashmiri Saint Swami Lakshmanjoo and Kashmiri Dina Nath Muju Edited by Jim Powell INTRODUCTION by Jim Powell In the Land of Blue Forests, as Lord Buddha called Kashmir, dreams a chain of mountains called Himalaya, Abode of Snow: its elevated slopes white all year round. These mountains have also preserved a field guide to finite infinities: a compendium of dozens of Modes of Meditation, 112 ways of courting unbounded consciousness. These Modes have been carried down in an oral tradition and a scripture known as the Vijñāna Bhairava (The Scripture of Divine Awareness). Traditionally each of the 112 ways is called a dharana or yukti , a technique or way of doing something. Herein, however, I use the term Mode (rather than "technique" or "way") because Mode designates both a way of doing something and a state of being. So a mode can be a way of plucking a string
