Doctrine of Awakening. An Outline of Buddhist Asceticism

Julius Evola"s book is aimed at revealing the fundamental starts of the full ascetic system, the most clearly represented in Buddhism. The very teaching of Tsarevich Siddhartha, as the author proves, is a high aristocratic teaching, in which Askise acts as a science and school of spiritual liberation. Evola connects this spiritual school with the great tradition in which the Higher Kingdom of the Spirit determines the lower material world. The author seeks to solve an important practical task: to make one of the greatest ascetic systems affordable and understandable to the modern world, which "like no other civilization - as much as possible from the ascetic perception of life". The modern world for Eway is the world of mindless activism, the world of feverish race on a closed circle. But in this world there are ways to clear the place for a powerful vertical jerk, for a breakthrough to the unconditional. One of them is ascetic concentration, which in no case is there is a flight from the world, but the means of liberation