Seconding the recommendation for The Mind Illuminated. It's the distillation an enormous amount of Buddhist meditation knowledge from several lineages into a mo

Seconding the recommendation for The Mind Illuminated. It's the distillation an enormous amount of Buddhist meditation knowledge from several lineages into a modernized, relatively scientific format. Yates also makes the admirable choice of retaining traditional terminology and outlook in cases where modern science wouldn't have anything useful to add (he resists scientizing, in other words.)