Think of it as a roadmap to save you from mystical pitfalls
5 étoiles
I was engrossed the entire time reading it, and it convinced me to finally start doing the work of meditation. On that basis alone, I give it 5 stars. I enjoyed that the author is a skeptic, and brutally honest when it comes to cutting through the pseudoscience and the "woo woo" of some speakers in the field of meditation. I feel like it saved me a lot of time. I recommend this book for anyone who has been curious about meditation or Buddhism but kept shying away because sometimes you don't know what you'll get mixed in with the scientifically proven useful advice. It's an extremely helpful roadmap. You can be a skeptic, a scientist, facts-driven, and still meditate. In fact, if you identify as any of those, you should really start listening to the evidence given in this book and start doing it.
I was engrossed the entire time reading it, and it convinced me to finally start doing the work of meditation. On that basis alone, I give it 5 stars. I enjoyed that the author is a skeptic, and brutally honest when it comes to cutting through the pseudoscience and the "woo woo" of some speakers in the field of meditation. I feel like it saved me a lot of time. I recommend this book for anyone who has been curious about meditation or Buddhism but kept shying away because sometimes you don't know what you'll get mixed in with the scientifically proven useful advice. It's an extremely helpful roadmap. You can be a skeptic, a scientist, facts-driven, and still meditate. In fact, if you identify as any of those, you should really start listening to the evidence given in this book and start doing it.