Cloudless Mind - Volume 1
Conversations on Buddhahood with Daniel P. Brown
Published on 27. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
357 pages
978-1-59181-354-5 (ISBN)
Description
Cloudless Mind vol 1, 2 & 3 invites you into Daniel P. Brown’s cherished Wednesday night dialogues, where he deftly responds to his students' questions with a unique blend of Western psychology and Eastern wisdom. Drawing on decades of experience in trauma care, psychology, and meditation instruction with esteemed Lamas, he offers profound, transformative insights on the mind, life, and spirituality.
Cloudless Mind vol 1, 2 & 3 invites you into Daniel P. Brown’s cherished Wednesday night dialogues, where he deftly responds to his students' questions with a unique blend of Western psychology and Eastern wisdom. Drawing on decades of experience in trauma care, psychology, and meditation instruction with esteemed Lamas, he offers profound, transformative insights on the mind, life, and spirituality.
Cloudless Mind makes Buddhist teachings both accessible and inspiring to the Western mind in a way that few books do. Daniel P. Brown's legacy lives on through this vibrant work.
Cloudless Mind vol 1, 2 & 3 invites you into Daniel P. Brown’s cherished Wednesday night dialogues, where he deftly responds to his students' questions with a unique blend of Western psychology and Eastern wisdom. Drawing on decades of experience in trauma care, psychology, and meditation instruction with esteemed Lamas, he offers profound, transformative insights on the mind, life, and spirituality.
Cloudless Mind makes Buddhist teachings both accessible and inspiring to the Western mind in a way that few books do. Daniel P. Brown's legacy lives on through this vibrant work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boulder, Colorado
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
830 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59181-354-5 (9781591813545)
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09/2025
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Person
Born in New Bedford, MA in 1948, Daniel P. Brown was granted scholarships to obtain his Bachelor’s, Masters, and PhD degrees. Ultimately, his expertise spanned the fields of clinical psychology, hypnosis, forensics, and meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. He also authored Pointing Out the Great Way, translated seven seminal texts in the Bon tradition, co-authored The Transformation of Consciousness with Ken Wilber, Hypnotherapy & Hypnoanalysis with Erika Fromm, and Memory, Trauma Treatment and the Law with Cory Hammond and Alan Scheflin, as well as contributed to many professional journals. He also served on the Harvard Medical School faculty for over twenty-four years. His devotion to helping others included testifying at the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague and defending the veracity of children’s memories of having been abused by clergy across the U.S.
Content
VOLUME I 1.April 25, 2012p. # Themes: The three maps to buddhahood 2.May 5, 2012p. # Themes: Internal and external refuge; trust; aspiration; conduct 3.May 30, 2012p. # Themes: Unfolding levels of motivation, awakening, conduct 4.July 18, 2012p. # Themes: Usefulness of concentration and awareness training 5.August 8, 2012p. # Themes: Everyone matters, deserves respect; styles of attachment 6.August 15, 2012p. # Themes: The profound influence of mentors; fiduciary relationships 7.August 22, 2012p. # Themes: Interconnectedness; beyond time; positive states 8.August 29, 2012p. # Themes: Stages of concentration; meditation; neuroimaging 9.September 5, 2012p. # Themes: Buddhist history; beyond representation; awakening beyond time 10.October 24, 2012p. # Themes: External and internal refuge; positive states; virtue 11.November 28, 2012p. # Themes: Karma theory with levels of mind; virtue training 12.December 5, 2012p. # Themes: Staying awake in sleep & dreams, night and day 13.December 19, 2012p. # Themes: The sun; enlightened buddha bodies; confession and tonglen 14.January 9, 2013p. # Themes: Mental constructions; four levels of realization 15.January 23, 2013p. # Themes: Processing grief; making sense of unfinished emotions 16.February 6, 2013p. # Themes: Bases and treatment of depression; positive states; neuroplasticity 17.May 1, 2013 p. # Themes: Four “discoveries” of the Turnings of the Wheel; the Essence traditions; Conduct 18.May 8, 2013p. # Themes: Opening the Great sphere; the importance of intention, bodhicitta 19.May 22, 2013p. # Themes: Shifting your basis of operation; the view beyond concepts; compassionate conduct 20.June 19, 2013p. # Themes: Ethics at work; energy practices; release karmic impressions 21.July 17, 2013p. # Themes: Energy body; Bodhidharma tissue regeneration; No thing: all liveliness 22.January 29, 2014p. # Themes: Importance of lineage; heart-to-heart; beware of spiritual pride 23.May 15, 2014p. # Themes: Three categories of meditation; clearing clouds layer by layer 24.May 21, 2014p. # Themes: Dealing with aging and dying; the Four Attitudes 25.July 16, 2014p. # Themes: H.H. Menri Trizin and Rahob Tulku; clear light body; marks of realization 26.August 27, 2014p. # Themes: West and East views of emotion, clearing the storehouse of all negative states 27.September 3, 2014p. # Themes: Stages of knowledge; effects of cultural trauma; spiritual duties VOLUME II 28.October 29, 2014p. # Themes: Mindfulness vs emptiness of “grab”; mixing practice; awake in deep sleep 29.November 19, 2014p. # Themes: Signs of Tulku emanations: Rahob Rinpoche, HH the Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama 30.December 10, 2014p. # Themes: Empathy and compassion; common humanity practice 31.January 14, 2015p. # Themes: Ethics, the need for moral development and conduct 32. January 21, 2015p. # Themes: Mindfulness; awareness; metacognition; neurocircuitry 33.March 11, 2015p. # Themes: Levels of trust and confidence; virtue 34.May 27, 2015p. # Themes: Working with physical and emotional pain; rainbow body 35.June 4, 2015p. # Themes: The natural state; crossing over; recognize the shift; emptiness-liveliness 36.June 10, 2015p. # Themes: Conduct 24/7; karmic memory; flourishing; cracking the eggshell 37.July 8, 2015p. # Themes: Beliefs in the background, negative or positive 38.July 22, 2015p. # Themes: Karma theory; intention matters; compassion & conduct 39.August 26, 2015p. # Themes: Prayer East and West; gift waves of influence 40.September 9, 2015p. # Themes: Self-emptiness and Other-emptiness; levels of awareness 41.December 2, 2015p. # Themes: A violent world; going beyond fear; common humanity practice 42.December 23, 2015p. # Themes: Heart-mind; Dharmadhātu exhaustion; visions; non-meditation 43.January 6, 2016p. # Themes: Metacognition is how you see your basis of operation 44.January 20, 2016p. # Themes: Enlightened mind is an invitation; inexhaustible bodhicitta, set the intention 45.February 3, 2016p. # Themes: Don’t jump ahead; using the gaze; positive qualities 46.February 10, 2016p. # Themes: A healthy sense of self is important; emptiness is not nihilistic 47.May 4, 2016p. # Themes: Constructions of mind; grab; emptiness practice 48.May 11, 2016p. # Themes: The vast expanse; visions; considerateness 49.June 1, 2016p. # Themes: Our culture of greed and selfishness; be honest in your practice 50.June 8, 2016p. # Themes: Processing different kinds of grief; the indestructible essence 51.July 13, 2016p. # Themes: Mixing practice; Asanga’s Nine Stages of Staying 52.July 20, 2016p. # Themes: Awareness beyond concepts; nonduality is not awakening; ultimate compassion 53.August 10, 2016p.# Themes: Postformal cognitive development; interconnectedness