Review: Meditation from Cold Start to Complete Mastery

For some reason, sometimes people want to know what I’m reading. Usually, the answer is “five things at once”—some fiction, some poetry, some self-help/psychology, some Substack, etcetera. But for the past two-ish years, perhaps an accurate answer could be, “I’ve been reading other stuff in between revisiting clumps of this bizarre meditation book written by some guy who hovers on the edge of my loose internet social circle.” Meditation from Cold Start to Complete Mastery, a frequently updated book/webpage by Mark AKA @meditationstuff, has become an important text for me. I dip in and out of it often, and I’ve read it front-to-back maybe 4-5 times. It has changed the way I view: —what meditation is —what emotional development is —what the point of life is and, along the way, some of its prose has become permanently embedded in my mind and heart. The voice in this book is frequently in my head as I walk around. A few of the more pithy meditation instructions he provides, like, “when saf

For some reason, sometimes people want to know what I’m reading. Usually, the answer is “five things at once”—some fiction, some poetry, some self-help/psychology, some Substack, etcetera. But for the past two-ish years, perhaps an accurate answer could be, “I’ve been reading other stuff in between revisiting clumps of this bizarre meditation book written by some guy who hovers on the edge of my loose internet social circle.” Meditation from Cold Start to Complete Mastery, a frequently updated book/webpage by Mark AKA @meditationstuff, has become an important text for me. I dip in and out of i