The Quiet Mind

A fascinating, engaging, and unique memoir, this story covers John Coleman's life after his cover is blown as a CIA agent in Asia in the late 1950s, leading him to embark on a vigorous pursuit of spiritual truth. In his travels through India, Burma, Japan, and Thailand, he encounters luminous teachers such as Krishnamurti, Maharishi, and D.T. Suzuki. Ultimately, his search for peace of mind and liberating insights comes to fruition in Yangonalso known as Rangoonunder the tutelage of the great Vipassana meditation master Sayagyi U Ba Khin.

John E. Coleman is a teacher of Vipassana mediation, a Korean War veteran, and a former employee of the CIA, with whom he worked undercover in Thailand from the late 1950s to the early 1960s.