Eric Harrison

Train your mind for tranquillity and focus with this fresh, secular guide to mindfulness using the Buddha's original teachings. Brain Training with the Buddha by Eric Harrison is not about Buddhism per se, nor is it rooted in any religious belief. Harrison's lifelong mindfulness practice is centred around the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha's original text on how to meditate. He...

Just a few pages long, with 13 recommended practices, The Foundations of Mindfulness provides the authority for the worldwide practice of mindfulness. However, this influential text has been neglected of late—not least because the common translation, in Victorian English, is virtually indecipherable. So, modern mindfulness students—focused instead on the Zen practice of 'just sitting'—risk missing the benefits of the Buddha's...