The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science

Written by Culadasa John Yates, PhD, Matthew Immergut, PhD and Jeremy Graves

Narrated by Sean Runnette

The book that bestselling 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 ten-stage program that is both deeply grounded in ancient spiritual teachings about mindfulness and holistic health, and also draws from the latest brain science to provide a roadmap 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: May 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781515987901

Reviews for The Mind Illuminated

[polusvijet · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

First off, the so called "ethical scandal" the author was involved in (he purchased the service of an escort), bears no influence on my rating of this book, nor do I believe that such an affair itself would undermine someone's capability of instructing people on the practice of meditation
Still, I found this book to be too extensive for its own good. Less than 200 pages would have sufficed for the author to adequately present his model of meditation to a layman audience. As is often the case with the genre of self-help and meditation books, one gets the impression Yates bulked up his work with useless esoteric fluff in order to give it an air of thoroughness. For anyone interested in an approach to meditation that is detatched from faux-spirituality, look into Autogenics as laid out by J.H. Schultz, Wolfgang Luthe, Luis de Rivera or Micah Sadigh.

[nicdevera-16450 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Long, a slog at times, but there's some interesting insights. The first meditation book I've seen that's (somewhat) grounded in science, cognitive and neuro.

[jasoncomely-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Groundbreaking stuff. Culadasa is a meditation master who describes step-by-step the journey to becoming truly awakened. I have currently plateaued at (what he calls) stage five, but I'll revisit this book once I start making progress again.