Brain Training with the Buddha | Free Book
Longtime 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.
“Brings clear thinking, practical wisdom, and welcome rigor to the widely popular concept of mindfulness.” —Publishers Weekly
Previously published in hardcover as The Foundations of Mindfulness
About the Author
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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