rethinking meditation is a good book that suffers from a lack of mahayana
The basic idea of David McMahan’s Rethinking Meditation is good: perennialism is wrong; we need a constructivist account of meditation. I was once a perennialist, but now I agree. Like a typical American self-proclaimed Buddhist, I got into it through martial arts as a kid and psychedelics as a teenager. “The Perennial Philosophy” is a…