Brain Training with the Buddha: A Modern Path to Insight Based on the Ancient Foundations of Mindfulness
Written by Eric Harrison
Narrated by Sean Runnette
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The essential guide to training your brain for mindfulness—modern, science-based, and with no Buddhism required.
Publisher’s note: Brain Training with the Buddha was previously published in hardcover as The Foundations of Mindfulness.
Lifelong meditation teacher Eric Harrison intimately understands the benefits of mindfulness, from improved focus and better judgment to relaxation and inner peace. He’s helped tens of thousands of students to achieve these goals by rooting his practice in the Buddha’s original text on how to meditate and live mindfully: the Satipatthana Sutta.
Brain Training with the Buddha offers a secular perspective on this ancient wisdom that requires no familiarity with Buddhism itself—only openness to the Buddha’s original teachings. Harrison’s translation of this sutta (the first in modern English) comes with guidance for anyone looking to train their mind by applying its thirteen steps to mindful living today.
Eric Harrison
Eric Harrison was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1949. He graduated from Victoria University with a BA in English literature and music, and started his working life as a schoolteacher and journalist. Between 1974 and 1985 he spent a total of 18 months doing retreats in the Burmese, Tibetan, Zen, and yoga traditions. While he appreciated the opportunities to do long retreats, he found he had no appetite for Buddhism itself. When Eric opened the Perth Meditation Centre in 1987, he chose to use secular, rational, and science-based language to explain meditation. He later supplemented his knowledge with five years’ study in biology, cognitive science, and Western philosophy. This approach made his work acceptable to the many doctors and psychologists who referred clients to him, and to corporations that have employed him since. He has now taught 30,000 people how to meditate, and his previous six books, including Teach Yourself to Meditate and The 5-Minute Meditator, have been translated into 14 languages.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chapters 19 and 20 are broken. They stopped at the last 10mins or so.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Author was very knowledgeable and it certainly added to my knowledge and understanding of the subject. He says he’s not a Buddhist and so I was left unsure what he thinks or believes about the nature of reality.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5If you're looking for more about "brain" (or science) of meditation, look elsewhere. Why Buddhism is True, or Buddha's Brain are both good books on that. Instead, this book is useless. It just drones on and on with a jumbled word salad describing the mechanics various meditation practices. Also the narrator sounds like he has something in his mouth.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An excellent science based and secular account of meditation, mindfulness, and the teaching of the Buddha from a lifelong practitioner and student of these areas. Having read many books on the subject I was finally able to build a mental map of the various schools of thought, the merits and limitations of what each belief system teaches, and how each resonates with my own search for truth. I found the insights invaluable and am excited to explore them further in my own practice. I highly recommend this book to those who have read the classics and are looking for more context. It is now on my short list of mindfulness books to revisit regularly.