Walking the Wakeful Path Home

1. Desiring to return home as at the end of a long journey, one commits to practicing the moral conduct of The Eight Renunciations as a support for the return.

2. Having calibrated one’s compass, one takes a stable seat with good alignment at the Crossroads of Bivalent Perception, practicing Calm Abiding to rest their road-weary mind.

3. Having rested for a moment, one increases their longing to return home by applying Meditative Focuses.

4. Having developed a resilient mind, one applies Clear Seeing, discovering the Insubstantial Basis of Being.

5. Having discovered the Insubstantial Basis of Being for oneself, one gives rise to Conviction in taking this Insubstantial Basis of Being as the guide for return.

6. Having developed the dignity of Conviction in the Insubstantial Basis of Being as the guide, one proceeds along the path home, yet encounters conceptual obstacles along the way.

7. Having encountered conceptual obstacles, one visits the Grand Library of Great Shelves to engage in the two Disciplines of Learning how to proceed further.

8. Learning from external sources, one engages in Contemplation in the Peaceful Study upon developing conceptual paths of return from the Solidity of Objective Real-ifying to the Insubstantial Basis of Being.

9. Learning from internal sources, one engages in Reflection in the Shaded Courtyard upon developing conceptual paths of return from the Solidity of Interpretation of Experience to the Insubstantial Basis of Being.

10. Having developed a learned mind, one applies Clear Seeing, discovering the Insubstantial Basis of Concepts.

11. Having discovered the Insubstantial Basis of Concepts for oneself, one gives rise to Gentle Perseverance as the means for overcoming obstacles that may arise along the path home.

12. Having developed Gentle Perseverance in the Insubstantial Basis of Concepts as the means, one proceeds along the path home, yet encounters a diverse multitude of beings along the way.

13. Having encountered a diverse multitude of beings along the way, one visits the Cheerful Teahouse of Good Repute to engage in Human Society in the manner of one returning home.

14. Having engaged with others, each with a unique perspective on the Substantiality of the Basis of Being and on the Substantiality of the Basis of Concepts, one applies Empathetic Insight to discover how the Insubstantial Basis of their Concepts would return them to the Insubstantial Basis of their Being.

15. Having applied Empathetic Insight, one discovers the Insubstantial Basis of Others.

16. Having discovered the Insubstantial Basis of Others for oneself, one gives rise to Altruistic Hospitality as the Organizing Principle of one’s encounters with others.

17. Having given rise to Altruistic Hospitality as the Organizing Principle of one’s encounters with others, one gives rise to an ever-refining Ethical Conduct as the Organizing Fulfillment of one’s Altruistic Hospitality.

18. Having developed Altruistic Hospitality and Ethical Conduct, one proceeds along the path home, yet encounters magical obstacles, sudden hardships, and environmental dangers.

19. Having encountered magical obstacles, sudden hardships, and environmental dangers, one visits the Mountain Hermitage of Joyful Simplicity to engage in Practices of Generative Imagining to clarify the direct path home.

20. Having engaged in Practices of Generative Imagining, one begins to reclaim their projections of mind upon the external environment, discovering the Insubstantial Basis of Appearances.

21. Having developed a clear mind informed by the Insubstantial Basis of Appearances, one proceeds along the path home, but discovers that they have not yet arrived.

22. Having discovered that they have not yet arrived, one engages in Wisdom Practices to illuminate the Insubstantial Basis of Distance between Perceiver and Perceived.

23. Having Illuminated the Insubstantial Basis of Distance between Perceiver and Perceived, one discovers that they are Already At Home.

24. Having discovered that one is Already At Home, and that there is no further returning to do, they Rest At Ease.

May this ‘Walking the Wakeful Path Home’ provide a helpful map of the path forward on your way home. If at any point along the path one becomes confused about the directions to get home, one may ask a good Spiritual Friend to help point out the way.