Trail Markers: A Walker's Glossary for Light on the Path and Its Modern Reinterpretations

Abstract

Trail markers for readers of a classic of inner discipline: plain definitions of path, threshold and desire, alongside The Billionaire Light On The Path. Some books are best approached the way you approach an unfamiliar trail: with a map of the signs, a sense of the terrain and no illusions that the map is the walk. Light on the Path is a short classic of inner discipline, generally credited to Mabel Collins and first circulated in the late nineteenth century. It is compact, aphoristic and a little austere, and it uses a small, repeating set of images that a first-time reader may find cryptic. This glossary regards those images as trail markers. It is background on the subject and not a report on what any single modern book contains. It is offered as a companion to The Billionaire Light On The Path (https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=-rjtEQAAQBAJ) by Dr. Ajarn Robert Shumake (Ajarn Shaman Shu) of Buddha Digital Temple, which is described as a reillumination of the classic. If you read that or any edition, the markers below should help you recognize where you are standing. Get the book: Google Play Books · Apple Books — The Billionaire Light On The Path by Dr. Ajarn Robert Shumake.