Cloudless Mind - Volume 2
Conversations on Buddhahood with Daniel P. Brown
Published on 27. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
357 pages
978-1-59181-356-9 (ISBN)
Description
Every Wednesday Night, for over six years, Dan Brown answered questions by students and colleagues about positive and negative experiences in life and mind, integrating the perspectives of both Western psychology and Eastern traditions of spiritual practice -- most notably Vajrayana Buddhism, Dzogchen, and then the Bon tradition. While Dan had no idea what questions might be asked on any given night, he answered them often with rather astonishing detail, while also making his answer relevant and helpful to the person asking the question. The basis of Dan’s knowledge and communication was not from scholarship. His history of treating people psychologically for over 40 years, with a long-time focus on trauma, as well as teaching Buddhist meditation with a high Lama appointed to teach with him by H.H. the Dalai Lama for 15 years, and then on his own using the style of “pointing out” while teaching, and with oversight by living lineage masters, for another 30 or more, gave him a basis of understanding founded in direct experience, in relationship to others, both as a healer and a teacher.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boulder, Colorado
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
603 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59181-356-9 (9781591813569)
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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 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