I find this an excellent book by the late ex-neuroscientist and meditation adept, that illustrates how the mind works and distils the core of Buddhist meditation into easy to follow steps - the medtiation practice, as always, is the challenge to progress.
I have some The Mind Illuminated guided meditation audio files created by a meditation teacher if anyone is interested.
Has anyone used the book?
I have that book. I have read until stage 3 or so. I am honestly not very keen on it…
I was expecting something else. Somewhere in the book (front or back, i can’t remember), it says that it is a “science based” or makes reference to “brain science” or something. As far as I have seen, there is no science in that book. If there is, it is very little and very old. The book will certainly not appeal to those coming from a scientific background. Not for its science at least.
Having said that, it is a good meditation guide and it should be refered as such. A guide. No need to pull the “science” theme.
I would love to have access to your audio files… Can you share?
I have read the whole book and have meditated accordingly for a year or so. I agree that it’s not that science based. But I still found it super cool that it is a very analytical or ‘scientific’ approach in that it is very algorithmic and clear what you do when. There are some parts that are a bit unclear, but all in all I really enjoyed the “if you are there, do that” kind of approach.
Do you have any other book recommendations that are more science based?