> instead of reading it cover to cover Yes! I also highly recommend the book, but it is a technical manual for the mind. If you try to read it cover-to-cover,

> instead of reading it cover to cover Yes! I also highly recommend the book, but it is a technical manual for the mind. If you try to read it cover-to-cover, most of what you read is going to be meditation techniques that are months or years away from being useful to you, and models of the mind that are far removed from your current experiences. Like, feel free to read the whole thing if you want to, but be aware that it's akin to reading the C++ spec as a beginning programmer. The mind isn't simple.