Effortless Mindfulness requires no prior experience with any sort of mindfulness or meditation practice, yet it is also the next logical step for those who have been doing basic mindfulness or other meditation practices, and those who have already worked with Loch’s “glimpse” practices will find this to be a logical extension of and refreshing addition to those practices. These glimpse practices are intended to point to and give direct access to the awakened state. You do small glimpses many times.

The audio book is broken down into four sessions, each of which consists of various glimpses and accompanying audio segments which flow together nicely to create a coherent and cohesive experience as the listener moves through and attunes to them. What follows is my non-comprehensive summary of those four sessions.

The first session explores going from thought-based knowing to awareness-based knowing, and basic mindfulness to effortless mindfulness.

Session two includes an effortless mindfulness glimpse practice that uses the sense doors as a vehicle to reveal awake awareness, where effortless mindfulness fits into categories of meditation, attention versus local awareness, and moving into awareness-based knowing.

Session three includes mindfulness in contemporary culture, maps of basic mindfulness and effortless mindfulness and the exploration of these through the glimpse practices. Just as basic mindfulness is associated with the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Loch has…