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Has anyone used the book The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa? (self.meditation)

submitted 2 years ago by YellowtoOrange to c/meditation

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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?

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[–] YellowtoOrange 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, that's interesting! I'm in the medical field and thought it gave a theory of mind that rang true and was well explained, though I guess that you're right, it doesn't quote research papers/MRI studies etc Though if you listen to Sam Harris (another neuroscientist) explaining meditation, his explanations are similar, and a "purely science based" person would be perplexed by many of his statesments, which are very much in line with Zen and Buddhist thought. IMHO Science is not advanced enough to elucidate this, let alone consciousness.

Here are the guided meditations:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/sfupl3273fsjp59jvko0z/h?dl=0&rlkey=af8ixnxpqfkuko1nmjdg7tpdk