Review
"The definitive resource for scholars, meditation teachers, and those practitioners interested in a high-resolution framing of the meaning and cultivation of mindfulness under a wide variety of life circumstances, as illuminated by a careful and broad-minded exegesis of specific texts (Pāli Nikāyas and Chinese Āgamas) written down closest to the time of the Buddha. Anālayo here provides a rich framework for examining, reflecting upon, and deepening one’s own ongoing practice and understanding in light of these earliest teachings on the cultivation of mindfulness as the direct path for the liberation and the extinguishing of suffering. He ends by offering his own inclusive definition of mindfulness. Much of what is illuminated here may be highly germane to current neuroscience studies of meditation, including brain networks subtending salience, memory (including working memory), proprioception, executive function, emotion regulation, and sense of self." Jon Kabat-Zinn, Founder of MBSR, author of 'The Healing Power of Mindfulness' and 'Mindfulness for All'
