Download PDF Pointing Out the Great Way: The Stages of Meditation in the Mahamudra Tradition, by Daniel P. Brown

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Pointing Out the Great Way: The Stages of Meditation in the Mahamudra Tradition, by Daniel P. Brown

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"Pointing Out the Great Way weaves together insights from a variety of Buddhist root texts, practice manuals, and commentaries, into a step-by-step 'gradual path' description of the methods of Mahamudra practice, descriptions of the various stages of practice and associated experiences, as well as common obstacles and their antidotes. The text is dense but surprisingly readable and contains a helpful introduction, elaborate footnotes, and an extensive glossary and index." (Mandala)"I rejoice and congratulate [Dan Brown] for this grand achievement, and I rejoice and congratulate the readers, who will find by working through and living with this monumental book, a real pointing out of the gentle, 'great embrace' that this beautiful reality holds them in right now, whatever else they think might be going on." (Robert A.F. Thurman)"A clinical psychotherapist and meditation instructor, Daniel Brown has spent more than thirty years studying and translating the vast Tibetan literature on the Mahamudra system of meditation. In Pointing Out the Great Way, he expertly guides the reader through each stage of the path in plain English, referencing the classic sources on Mahamudra sparingly and in a manner that supports his presentation without confusing it. The resulting manual is a valuable synthesis of more than a thousand years of meditation instructions filtered through the author's understanding of Tibetan and Western ways of describing the mind." (Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly)

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About the Author

Daniel P. Brown is the director of the Center for Integrative Psychotherapy in Newton, Massachusetts, and an associate clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. Trained in Buddhist philosophy and languages at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he did his dissertation on mahamudra meditation texts, he has maintained close relations with Tibetan teachers of the Gelug, Kagyu, and Nyingma lineages for more than thirty-five years as well as exploring the Theravada mindfulness traditions in Burma and Thailand. The author of fourteen books, including Transformations of Consciousness, he lives in Newton, Massachusetts. Robert Thurman holds the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. After education at Philips Exeter and Harvard, he studied Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism for almost thirty years as a personal student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has written both scholarly and popular books, and has lectured widely all over the world. As President of the American Institute for Buddhist Studies, he convened the First Inner Science Conference with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Amherst College in 1984. He is also a founding trustee of Tibet House New York.

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Product details

Paperback: 608 pages

Publisher: Wisdom Publications; First Printing edition (September 28, 2006)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0861713044

ISBN-13: 978-0861713042

Product Dimensions:

6 x 1.5 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.2 out of 5 stars

17 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#131,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I will try to be succinct. I have co-directed a meditation center for some 25 years, studied (and practiced) under Tibetans for 40 years many of the practices and techniques described by Daniel Brown. I have worked with a high rinpoche for the last 30 years on studying and practicing mahamudra. My point is that this material is not new to me.When I first saw this very large book, I assumed that it was just another derivative dharma book of the kind that needs too-many words to say not enough, and seldom communicates what is actually needed by readers.Once I slowed down enough to read the book carefully, I must say that my original impression of the book was wrong.This book is written with great attention to detail and accuracy. More important to me, the author obviously is devoted to the subject matter, has direct experience in the practices, and expresses it in a kind and loving way, not just as a scholar. I find this same sense of authenticity and personal knowledge in the works of the great historian of comparative religions, Mircea Eliade. This combination of scholar and practitioner is rare in my experience. Brown actually demonstrates the fruits of the practices he so diligently documents.I must have a thousand dharma books around the center, including many of the original texts that Dr. Brown refers to, so I did not expect to find much new to me. In fact, the way Brown has interwoven the original material with his own experience and knowledge is quite new (at least for a westerner), and extraordinary."Pointing Out the Great Way" summarizes a vast range of authentic sources and compiles them into a single volume with remarkable clarity. It occurs to me that this book is not unlike many of the great dharma reference texts Brown documents, and it is written by an author for whom English is the native language! I find this of real help.In my opinion, this is not really a book for beginners in meditation, although the introduction is lucid and of use to everyone. From there on, Dr. Brown lays out the graduated path of learning meditation, from the beginning to techniques more advanced than I know or can follow. Along the way, Brown presents a special vocabulary that takes some learning, but in the long run it is necessary for clarity's sake.In summary, I find it hard to believe I did not discover this book sooner and I find myself using it just as I use many of the classic Tibetan texts on mahamudra. This book is indeed a "pointing out," just as the title (and tradition) requires. I seldom stray from reading the original mahamudra texts themselves, but I have no problem whatsoever recommending "Pointing Out the Great Way" to any serious student of meditation.

Daniel Brown has written a timeless spiritual masterpiece. I just finished a third complete reading and look forward to the fourth. It is a difficult book filled with lots of detail; yet, the path is filled with minuscule detail and paradoxically so absolutely simple. While Jack Kornfield in A Path With Heart and David Cooper in God Is A Verb are more understandable, POTGW is far more complete. The epic known as the Torah is the same path however a symbolic reading is necessary.

This book is a lighthouse for meditators, and I think it will be of particular help to those of great independence. This book has exhaustively explored the depths of human awareness, from A to Z, and indicated the major obstacles with clear, frank precision. Nothing round-a-bout here. Hence it is also a dangerous book, since it is concerned solely with developing one's meditation, devoid of hidden motive, religious or secular. For Buddhist or Layman, novice or adept, this book can be extraordinarily useful. Milk it to the last drop. Confusion--gross to very subtle--shall be illuminated. One criticism I have is that I think the book did not sufficiently examine the very final stages of enlightenment, but nevertheless it went further into it than what is usual for these kind of books.

Dense for sure, though a very very very complete map of the Mahamudra stages of awakening. Not a quick read but a life long reference.

If you're on the path, or beginning the path of Mahamudra, this is an excellent book. If you're beginning to awaken to your true nature, this will propel you forward.

I would rate this book as the best among the many published books on Mahamudra tradition

Great read.best on the subject of Mahamurdra.

Was much impressed with Daniel Brown's integrative approach to Buddhist meditation stages in "Transformations of Consciousness" which he co-wrote with Ken Wilber and Jack Engler, so purchased the Kindle edition and also the print edition of "Pointing Out the Great Way". A unique feature of this book is that it guides the reader through the inner experiences of each stage of the mahamudra meditation resulting in a valuable synthesis of over a thousand years of spiritual instruction and all in plain English - indeed a rare accomplishment.

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