Cloudless Mind, Volume 2

A profound guide to living and dying with awakened awareness, Cloudless Mind: Volume 2 bridges timeless Buddhist wisdom and modern psychology to turn insight into real transformation.

Cloudless Mind: Conversations on Buddhahood, Volume 2 delves deeper into the lived experience of awakening, expanding the original dialogue into profound new territory. While Volume 1 laid the groundwork for understanding refuge, ethical conduct, and the path to realization, this second volume brings the teachings down to earth—into the body, emotions, relationships, and the grit of everyday life.

Across two years of intimate conversations, Daniel P. Brown explores the subtleties of compassion, trauma, grief, moral development, and the neurocircuitry of awareness. Themes like rainbow body, nonduality, self-emptiness, and phowa (consciousness transference) are presented not as abstract ideals, but as tangible aspects of practice available here and now.

With a strong emphasis on embodied conduct, emotional integration, and preparing for death, Volume 2 bridges timeless Buddhist wisdom with cutting-edge psychology—guiding readers from conceptual understanding to direct transformation.