The 112 Doorways: A System for Individually Mapping Practices from the Vigyan Bhairava Tantra (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798255835034)

Most people who try to meditate either give up or plateau. Not because they lack discipline, and not because meditation doesn't work. Because they've been given the wrong practice.

The 112 Doorways is a practical guide to one of the oldest and most comprehensive collections of contemplative techniques in existence the Vigyan Bhairava Tantra, a 1,500-year-old Kashmiri text containing 112 distinct methods for accessing the awareness that underlies all experience. Some work through the breath. Some through the body. Some through emotion, sensory richness, intensity, or direct investigation of the nature of the mind itself. The techniques are not interchangeable. What opens one person closes another. What transforms a practice for one person does nothing for the next.

This book begins with that fact. Before introducing a single technique, it offers a detailed self-assessment a clinical tool for identifying which of six doorways into contemplative experience are most accessible for your particular nervous system, history, and way of being in the world. What follows is a complete, personalised approach to practice: not a generic meditation programme, but a map built from where you actually are.

Gregory Scott is a contemplative practitioner and the developer of the 112 Doorways assessment methodology.