On a sidenote: Anybody know "Mindfulness in Plain English"? Is it a good book, worth the read?
If not, what is?
I'm looking for books that intricately describe the fine subtleties and states encountered in meditation in plain English. What happens to your breath, to your thoughts, to your emotions, to your body, to the sensations, what changes how, what arises, what moves out of awareness, how your perception changes...
Optimally described by an experienced person instead of taken from any other source.
Because while many books describe techniques, most if not all cannot accurately describe what you find. How can then the practitioner accurately "verify" the progress, the experience, anything? I know there are people who like to take this from ancient or older scripture, but to me that just means you can not even be sure in hindsight, because often enough our interpretation of a language that is no longer ours is at best errorprone.
This may not be the best example, but I actually read Bardon who wrote in my mother tongue, and the language does no longer fully decode, which seems to show in the English translations which struggle with this as well AFAIK. So how can we even hope to decode a text that was written many generations ago in another culture, another time, by a person of a very different world view and level of development?
I'd rather look for books that actually can accurately describe this in the terms of these days. Anybody know some?
PS - I'm not interested in any "meditation poetry" where basically people endlessly describe something without saying anything. I'd love a book in Robert's style - just the facts, explained modern and straight-forward. No quantum theories either.
Thank you,
Oliver
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