
The Mind Illuminated
A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
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The book that best-selling meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg raves "brings the path of meditation to life", The Mind Illuminated is the first how-to meditation guide from a neuroscientist who is also an acclaimed meditation master. This innovative book offers a 10-stage program that is deeply grounded in ancient spiritual teachings about mindfulness and holistic health and also draws from the latest brain science to provide a road map for anyone interested in achieving the benefits of mindfulness. Dr. John Yates offers a new and fascinating model of how the mind works, including steps to overcome mind wandering and dullness, extending your attention span while meditating, and subduing subtle distractions. This groundbreaking manual helps you work through each stage of the process, offering tools that work across all types of meditation practices.
The Mind Illuminated is essential listening, whether you are a beginner wanting to establish your practice or a seasoned veteran ready to master the deepest state of peace and mindfulness.
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Demystify mysticism and learn techniques to move yourself beyond emotional and intellectual blocks into a realm of clear insight and inner peace. In this complete curriculum for self-investigation Shinzen Young - one of America's foremost meditation teachers - covers traditional teachings, scientific insights, and practical instruction to show you exactly how enlightenment works, and how to begin your own journey to inner liberation. Topics include concentration, awareness, and merging techniques to explore the self and the world around you, how spiritual practices work in Buddhism, Christianity, Jewish mysticism, Sufism, Hinduism, shamanism, and many other mystical traditions, as well as 6 complete guided meditation sessions and a host of insights on how to choose and establish your own meditation practice.
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Great Book
- By Emese on 09-30-03
By: Shinzen Young
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Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness
- Walking the Path of the Buddha
- By: Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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In the same engaging style that has endeared him to listeners of Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Gunaratana delves deeply into each step of the Buddha's most profound teaching on bringing an end to suffering: the noble eightfold path. With generous and specific advice, Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness offers skillful ways to handle anger, to find right livelihood, and to cultivate loving-friendliness in relationships with parents, children, and partners, as well as tools to overcome all the mental hindrances that prevent happiness.
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Great straightforward listen!!
- By Michael on 06-03-16
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Dreaming Yourself Awake
- Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation
- By: B. Alan Wallace, Brian Hodel - editor
- Narrated by: Tom Pile
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Some of the greatest of life’s adventures can happen while you’re sound asleep. That’s the promise of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to alter your own dream reality any way you like simply by being aware of the fact that you’re dreaming while you’re in the midst of a dream. There is a range of techniques anyone can learn to become a lucid dreamer - and this audiobook provides all the instruction you need to get started.
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Unfortunately unlistenable
- By MMore on 12-15-14
By: B. Alan Wallace, and others
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The Path to Nibbana
- How Mindfulness of Loving-Kindness Progresses through the Tranquil Aware Jhanas to Awakening
- By: David C. Johnson
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Latest Edition with added chapters that dive deeper into the profound levels of mind than any other other book published. New Summary of progress and instructions chapter added for 2021. "Wow! Got your book. It is a major contribution. What is Nibbana? What is the experience and how to achieve it is in this book." Based on the earliest Buddhist Texts with information from the suttas never discussed before. This is a complete meditation handbook with all the instructions to achieve the goal and all of the levels of knowledge along the way. And now includes full text of "A Guide to Tranquil ...
By: David C. Johnson
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Being Nobody Going Nowhere
- Meditations on the Buddhist Path
- By: Ayya Khema
- Narrated by: Claire Slemmer, Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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In this lucid classic, beloved teacher Ayya Khema introduces the listener to the essence of the Buddhist path. She addresses the how and why of meditation, providing a clear framework for understanding the nature of karma and rebirth and the entirety of the eightfold path. With specific, practical advice, Ayya Khema illuminates the practices of compassion and sympathetic joy, and offers forthright guidance in working with the hindrances that we all encounter in meditation.
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The only book you will ever need.
- By Andrew on 01-10-17
By: Ayya Khema
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The Magic of Awareness
- By: Anam Thubten, Sharon Roe
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The paradox of awareness is very profound and yet very simple. It can't be described because it has no objective qualities and no limitation. Sometimes it comes naturally to the surface when we are fully in the present moment and no longer lost in thought or mental projections. Pure consciousness is neither high nor low, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither good nor bad. No matter where we are, no matter what we are doing, we always have an immediate access to that inner stillness.
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It Is!
- By Pegret on 03-27-15
By: Anam Thubten, and others
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The Tibetan Yoga of Breath
- Breathing Practices for Healing the Body and Cultivating Wisdom
- By: Anyen Rinpoche, Allison Choying Zangmo
- Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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With the simple teachings and cutting-edge research offered in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath, you can start thriving just by integrating breathwork into your daily practice.Basic Yantra Yoga techniques - also called wind energy training - are the key to achieving this kind of vitality, down to the cellular level. Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo skillfully examine the teachings of Yantra Yoga and Buddhism through the lens of Western medical science.
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More about Buddhism than breath exercises
- By Timothy Daulter on 01-04-15
By: Anyen Rinpoche, and others
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Beyond Distraction
- Five Practical Ways to Focus Your Mind
- By: Shaila Catherine
- Narrated by: Shaila Catherine
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Insight meditation teacher Shaila Catherine offers an accessible approach to training the mind that is guided by the Buddha’s pragmatic instructions on removing distracting thoughts. Drawing on two scriptures in the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Shaila shows you how to overcome habitual modes of thinking, develop deeper concentration, and discover the insights into emptiness that are vital for a liberating spiritual path.
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Excellent Resource
- By John D. Barnes on 02-23-23
By: Shaila Catherine
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Why Buddhism Is True
- The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
- By: Robert Wright
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness. In Why Buddhism Is True, Wright leads listeners on a journey through psychology, philosophy, and a great many silent retreats to show how and why meditation can serve as the foundation for a spiritual life in a secular age.
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Clear Explanation of How the Mind Works
- By George on 08-10-17
By: Robert Wright
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The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
- A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life
- By: Loch Kelly
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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"Effortless mindfulness" is a new way to immediately enter an optimal flow state available to us in the midst of our busy lives. In The Way of Effortless Mindfulness, Kelly teaches that when you "unhook" awareness from chattering thoughts, you can access a peaceful mind and a naturally embodied wakefulness. From this heartful space, students report they find that right action comes easily and a loving tenderness for all of life is freely available. This book outlines practical and supportive material from neuroscience, psychology, and the wisdom of various spiritual traditions.
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Horrible narration
- By eddie m. on 12-03-19
By: Loch Kelly
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Meditation in Action
- 40th Anniversary Edition
- By: Chögyam Trungpa, Samuel Bercholz - foreword
- Narrated by: Samuel Bercholz
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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This classic teaching by a Tibetan master continues to inspire both beginners and long-time practitioners of Buddhist meditation. Chgyam Trungpa Rinpoche shows that meditation extends beyond the formal practice of sitting to build the foundation for compassion, awareness, and creativity in all aspects of life. He explores the six activities associated with meditation in action - generosity, discipline, patience, energy, clarity, and wisdom - revealing that through simple, direct experience, one can attain real wisdom.
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Insightful
- By Irwin on 01-21-15
By: Chögyam Trungpa, and others
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- Daniel A. Demski
- 11-12-17
Close to comprehensive
Ultimately, this is just one of many views on how to properly do Buddhist meditation. But, it does go a great distance toward creating a unified, clear explanation of all Buddhist practices.
There's less neuroscience than I expected, though, given the introduction and what I'd heard about the book.
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- Saleem
- 12-02-18
THE BOOK
Having spent a lifetime in learning about meditation and practicing its various forms, this book and John Yates' journey herein, is a light post for any student of enlightement. I see this work of beauty, simplicity, and brilliance as a treasure and a gift from John to the mankind. Thank you, John. I wish John had recorded it in his own voice.
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- Ray 2nd barnhart
- 01-09-22
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This is the best book I’ve found so far on meditation. It sums up what I’ve read in several other books. It keeps it as simple yet detailed as possible for practical use. It’s helped me along in my own practice and answered a few conflicts I’ve found with all the info out there.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-29-18
really good
It's a really comprehensive book on meditation and on the intricacies on the subject which allow you to meditate with ease
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- 01-22-22
Informative
Love that book, great information and easy to follow absolutely wonderful, life-changing, eye-opening, and fantastic. It's truly amazing. I plan to read it many more times, sitting with the words, feeling what they say. It is the one single book that I would say is the most important book I've ever read.
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- Maria Haigh
- 12-05-18
Best meditation book I’ve ever read!
The author has an incredible talent of explaining everything. A must read for beginners or experienced!
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- Sam
- 11-08-17
A wonderful step by step guide to meditation
Amazing, well-organized reference. I have bookmarked it thoroughly and keep going back to it to review various subjects and learn more as my practice evolves. I am also telling a lot of other people about it, because it's changing my life!
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- M. Desilets
- 07-04-18
Trail guide to your self.
Narrator is excellent. Used as an object of attention, read countless times. Never bored.
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- Wyo hank
- 01-22-24
Best overall
It was the best simple but thorough review of meditation and the many aspects there of. Has truly aided my practice
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- Alex
- 07-21-18
The Mind Illuminated
Almost a decade into continuing practice, pointed to this book by my Teacher, it has thoroughly and completely refreshed my practice. The utmost gratitude for its transmission. May we completely realize it’s true meaning.
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