This book is listed as a related work in the Manuals category because of its comprehensive and accessible step-by-step articulation of Mahāmudrā meditation from one of the leading Western practitioners and promoters of Indo-Tibetan spirituality.
Dr. Daniel P. Brown has studied and practiced meditation for nearly 50 years, most of which he was also serving as a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Combining this professional expertise in Western medicine and psychology with his personal pursuit of Indo-Tibetan spirituality, Brown’s book, Pointing Out the Great Way, provides a rigorous analysis of Mahāmudrā meditation, chronicling each step of the process as if for a case study in a lab. While we often think of enlightenment as an instantaneous event – attainable in one day under a Bodhi tree – Brown argues these slow, incremental steps make it attainable for ordinary individuals.