The Gradual Training

Since I got a lot out of Leigh Brasington's two other books, I figured I would see what he had to say about The Gradual Training: The Buddha's Step-by-Step Guide for Awakening.  In the end, this book turned out to be less useful to me than the others, not because it is intrinsically less interesting, but simply because at this point I've already absorbed the overall trajectory of the Buddhist path from all the reading I've done in the past 5 years or so.  Ethics, Concentration, Wisdom.  Of course, the book goes into much more detail with each of these, and contains all sorts of useful advice and reflections on the path.  It also has a particularly detailed Q&A section at the end that deals with common questions and doubts Brasington has addressed in his teaching career.  But the real audience for the book is someone who hasn't seen this type of full outline before, and so, as the preface indicates, thinks of the path as, "... a bunch of post-it notes with all these ideas from Buddhism randomly stuffed into an envelope."  For this person, the book does an admirable and efficient job of telling you where you can stick these.