Timeline of awakening-oriented, technically-minded, Buddhist-derived meditation

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This is a timeline of awakening-oriented, technically-minded, Buddhist-derived meditation.

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2007 Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel Ingram is published.
2015 Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhānas by Leigh Brasington is published. The book is "one of the first books dedicated to teaching a wide, Western audience how to access the jhānas".[1]
2016 The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young is published.
2017 The Mind Illuminated by John Yates (Culadasa) is published.
2017 September 17 Scott Alexander begins reviewing various meditation books on his blog, Slate Star Codex. He reviews Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha,[2] The Mind Illuminated,[3] and also talks about Vinay Gupta.[4] Around this time, he also wrote about jhanas briefly, citing Brasington's book.[5] He would return to the topic of jhanas again in 2021 and 2022.[6][7][8]
2018 December The first blog posts about Buddhist meditation appear on Romeo Stevens's blog, Neurotic Gradient Descent.[9]
2019 January 7 Kaj Sotala's "Multiagent Models of Mind" sequence of blog posts is serially published starting this date. The initial posts cover the idea that the human mind consists of various subagents, but later posts attempt to mechanistically explain various ideas in Buddhist meditation, including the three marks of existence, no-self, and craving (tanha).[10]
2019 November The first Git commit on the protocol_1 repository is made by Mark Lippmann. The document in this repository would eventually become called the book Meditation from Cold Start to Complete Mastery: a Manual of Global Wayfinding Meditation.[11] The book would eventually be reviewed by various people, including by Sasha Chapin in 2022.[12]
2022 Jhourney is founded by Stephen Zerfas and Alex Gruver. Initially, the company focuses on developing a headset to guide people into jhana states, but would later pivot to running meditation retreats starting in October 2023.[13]
2025 Sanity and Sainthood: Integrating Meditation and Psychotherapy by Tucker Peck is published.

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References

  1. ↑ Oshan Jarow (June 7, 2024). "What if you could have a panic attack, but for joy?". Vox Future Perfect. Archived from the original on June 10, 2024.
  2. ↑ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/18/book-review-mastering-the-core-teachings-of-the-buddha/
  3. ↑ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/
  4. ↑ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/19/gupta-on-enlightenment/
  5. ↑ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/20/meditative-states-as-mental-feedback-loops/
  6. ↑ https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/jhanas-and-the-dark-room-problem
  7. ↑ https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/nick-cammarata-on-jhana
  8. ↑ https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-jhanas
  9. ↑ https://neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com/2018/12/orientation-on-contemplative-path.html
  10. ↑ https://www.lesswrong.com/s/ZbmRyDN8TCpBTZSip
  11. ↑ https://meditationbook.page/
  12. ↑ https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/review-meditation-from-cold-start
  13. ↑ Naina Bajekal (August 7, 2024). "My Week at the Buzzy Meditation Retreat That Promises Bliss on Demand". Time.
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