Visuddhimagga (the pah of purification)
by Ñāṇamoli Bhikkhu | 1956 | 388,207 words | ISBN-10: 9552400236 | ISBN-13: 9789552400236
This page describes The Yellow Kasina of the section The Remaining Kasiṇas (Sesa-kasiṇa-niddesa) of Part 2 Concentration (Samādhi) of the English translation of the Visuddhimagga (‘the path of purification’) which represents a detailled Buddhist meditation manual, covering all the essential teachings of Buddha as taught in the Pali Tipitaka. It was compiled Buddhaghosa around the 5th Century.
The Yellow Kasiṇa
15. Likewise with the yellow kasiṇa; for this is said: “One who is learning the yellow kasiṇa apprehends the sign in yellow, either in a flower or in a cloth or in a colour element.” Therefore here too, when someone has merit, having had previous practice, the sign arises in him when he sees a flowering bush or flowers spread out, or yellow cloth or colour element, as in the case of the Elder Cittagutta. That venerable one, it seems, saw an offering being made on the flower altar, with pattaṅga flowers[1] at Cittalapabbata, and as soon as he saw it the sign arose in him the size of the flower altar.
16. Anyone else should make a kasiṇa, in the way described for the blue kasiṇa, with kaṇikāra flowers, etc., or with yellow cloth or with a colour element. He should bring it to mind as “yellow, yellow.” The rest is as before.