Cloudless Mind - Volume 3
Conversations on Buddhahood with Daniel P. Brown
Published on 27. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
357 pages
978-1-59181-358-3 (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: 22 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59181-358-3 (9781591813583)
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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 III 54.August 17, 2016p. # Themes: Dying, phowa; capacity; mindfulness vs awareness practice 55.August 31, 2016p. # Themes: Preparing to die; phowa; stages of change; cognitive dissonance 56.October 5, 2016p. # Themes: Constructs are clouds; three maps; there’s no “out there” 57.November 30, 2016p. # Themes: Trump’s election; compassion; overcome greed and selfishness 58.January 4, 2017p. # Themes: Learning to move beyond negative beliefs in the background; Metacognition 59.January 18, 2017p.# Themes: Dukkha means reactivity; your mind affects the field 60.January 20, 2017p.# Themes: Ask yourself why you are doing this; bodhicitta 61.February 1, 2017p. # Themes: Phowa; importance of lineage; stabilize awakening 62.April 12, 2017p. # Themes: Neuroimaging research into four states up to awakening 63.May 17, 2017p. # Themes: Spiritual duties; lineage; practice and protect 64.June 21, 2017p. # Themes: Relationship problems: attachment, core conflicts; positive maps 65.July 19, 2017p. # Themes: Neurocircuits of awakening; Sleep and dream yoga 66.August 16, 2017p. # Themes: Gene Smith; conduct as a sign; spiritual 67.September 13, 2017p. # Themes: Unpacking teacher scandals; conduct is the best test of authenticity 68.October 25, 2017p. # Themes: Processing simple and complicated grief; motivation to heal vs dying 69.November 29, 2017p. # Themes: Steps in practice; neurocircuitry of awake awareness; processing trauma 70.December 6, 2017p. # Themes: Implicit memory; awareness during amnesia, dreams; most precise teaching to buddhahood 71.December 17, 2017p. # Themes: Losing loved ones; full-catastrophe living; common humanity 72.December 20, 2017p. # Themes: Sirhan didn’t kill RFK; forgiveness 73.January 10, 2018p.# Themes: Four Immeasurables; religious institutions; ethics training in law schools 74.January 24, 2018p. # Themes: Neurocircuitry; clean mind; Three Turnings of the Wheel 75.January 31, 2018p. # Themes: Practice all the time, on and off the pillow; offer everything good Appendices: 1.An interview with Dan on his unique way of teachingp. # 2.Dan’s background and CV p. # 3.Bibliography of Dan’s books.