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.
Cloudless Mind: Conversations on Buddhahood with Daniel P Brown, PhD (Volume 1), Sentient Publications, Paperback, 357 pages, $25.00
VOLUME I
1.April 25, 2012p. # Themes: The three maps to buddhahood
2.May 5, 2012p. # Themes: Internal and external refuge; trust; aspiration; conduct
3.May 30, 2012p. # Themes: Unfolding levels of motivation, awakening, conduct
4.July 18, 2012p. # Themes: Usefulness of concentration and awareness training
5.August 8, 2012p. # Themes: Everyone matters, deserves respect; styles of attachment
6.August 15, 2012p. # Themes: The profound influence of mentors; fiduciary relationships
7.August 22, 2012p. # Themes: Interconnectedness; beyond time; positive states
8.August 29, 2012p. # Themes: Stages of concentration; meditation; neuroimaging
9.September 5, 2012p. # Themes: Buddhist history; beyond representation; awakening beyond time 10.October 24, 2012p. # Themes: External and internal refuge; positive states; virtue
11.November 28, 2012p. # Themes: Karma theory with levels of mind; virtue training 12.December 5, 2012p. # Themes: Staying awake in sleep & dreams, night and day
13.December 19, 2012p. # Themes: The sun; enlightened buddha bodies; confession and tonglen
14.January 9, 2013p. # Themes: Mental constructions; four levels of realization
15.January 23, 2013p. # Themes: Processing grief; making sense of unfinished emotions
16.February 6, 2013p. # Themes: Bases and treatment of depression; positive states; neuroplasticity
17.May 1, 2013 p. # Themes: Four "discoveries" of the Turnings of the Wheel; the Essence traditions; Conduct
18.May 8, 2013p. # Themes: Opening the Great sphere; the importance of intention, bodhicitta
19.May 22, 2013p. # Themes: Shifting your basis of operation; the view beyond concepts; compassionate conduct
20.June 19, 2013p. # Themes: Ethics at work; energy practices; release karmic impressions
21.July 17, 2013p. # Themes: Energy body; Bodhidharma tissue regeneration; No thing: all liveliness
22.January 29, 2014p. # Themes: Importance of lineage; heart-to-heart; beware of spiritual pride
23.May 15, 2014p. # Themes: Three categories of meditation; clearing clouds layer by layer
24.May 21, 2014p. # Themes: Dealing with aging and dying; the Four Attitudes
25.July 16, 2014p. # Themes: H.H. Menri Trizin and Rahob Tulku; clear light body; marks of realization
26.August 27, 2014p. # Themes: West and East views of emotion, clearing the storehouse of all negative states
27.September 3, 2014p. # Themes: Stages of knowledge; effects of cultural trauma; spiritual duties
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