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Mindfulness book communities on Reddit

Meditation and mindfulness books discussed by practitioners, from practical beginner guides to Buddhist source texts and modern secular approaches.

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r/Meditation

A broad practice community discussing concentration, mindfulness, insight, guided and unguided sitting, spiritual traditions, secular programs, obstacles, and unusual experiences.

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The Mind Illuminated

John Yates

A neuroscientist and a meditation teacher map ten stages from a wandering mind to sustained, effortless attention, with homework at every stage.

19 recent

Mindfulness in Plain English

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Bhante Gunaratana explains how to sit, attend to the breath, meet distraction, and keep practicing when meditation feels boring, frustrating, or pointless.

6 recent

10% Happier

Dan Harris

A skeptical television journalist follows panic, self-help, and Buddhist teachers toward meditation without promising enlightenment or a new personality.

4 recent

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

A man on the verge of suicide has a single night that ends the self he thought he was and leaves behind a guide to living without it.

3 recent

Why Buddhism Is True

Robert Wright

A science journalist argues meditation works because evolution wired your brain to lie to you about what actually makes you happy.

1 recent

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The Mind Illuminated

John Yates

A neuroscientist and a meditation teacher map ten stages from a wandering mind to sustained, effortless attention, with homework at every stage.

440 in this theme

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

A man on the verge of suicide has a single night that ends the self he thought he was and leaves behind a guide to living without it.

221 in this theme

10% Happier

Dan Harris

A skeptical television journalist follows panic, self-help, and Buddhist teachers toward meditation without promising enlightenment or a new personality.

138 in this theme

Mindfulness in Plain English

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Bhante Gunaratana explains how to sit, attend to the breath, meet distraction, and keep practicing when meditation feels boring, frustrating, or pointless.

123 in this theme

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

A Roman emperor writes himself private notes on how to stop losing his temper, never expecting anyone else to read them, and two thousand years later everyone has.

35 in this theme

Why Buddhism Is True

Robert Wright

A science journalist argues meditation works because evolution wired your brain to lie to you about what actually makes you happy.

23 in this theme

The Attention Revolution

B. Alan Wallace

B. Alan Wallace presents ten stages of shamatha practice aimed at increasingly stable, vivid attention within a Tibetan Buddhist framework.

12 in this theme

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk spent his career arguing trauma changes the nervous system, and r/CPTSD made the book its shared vocabulary for what happened to them.

2 in this theme

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

Pete Walker

Pete Walker names a fourth trauma response beyond fight, flight, and freeze: fawn, the instinct to appease the person who's hurting you.

1 in this theme

#10

Parts Work: An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life

Tom Holmes

An illustrated IFS guide that r/InternalFamilySystems hands to newcomers who want to start working with their parts before their next therapy session.

1 in this theme

#11

Self-Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness Using IFS

Jay Earley

Jay Earley writes a step-by-step manual for talking to your own internal parts, and r/internalfamilysystems says it beats anything IFS's own founder ever published.

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