Book review: no-mind for the Minds of Winter
Not quite a zen book but zennish enough and more than bookish enough to warrant you knowing about it. Minds of Winter by Ed O’Loughlin, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, is a book best read...
View ArticleBook Review: Why Buddhism is True – the art of being Wright
Robert Wright’s latest book, Why Buddhism is True: The science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment, extends his previous thesis in the Moral Animal that we’ve evolved to evolve. This time...
View ArticleCanada Reads but does it understand? A memoir that was a tragedy in three parts.
I love literary lists. Each year I pick up one book authored by the Noble Prize in Literature; this year was the ever-confounding Kazuo Ishiguro. I sit anxiously waiting for the Man Booker Prize...
View ArticleBook Review: Pause, Breathe, Smile by Gary Gach
Disclosure: I received the book for a fair, unbiased review. However, I actually bought it for myself because I was too impatient to read it. I met Gary Gach (I think) a few years ago (I think). Or...
View ArticleThe Compassionate Kitchen: Book Review
Disclosure: I was asked to review the book by its publicist. The Compassionate Kitchen: Buddhist practices for eating with mindfulness and gratitude by Thubten Chodron (Shambhala Publications) is a...
View ArticleThe Day the Buddha Woke Up: A handful of words from a handful of leaves
Note bene: This book was received from the publisher for review. The Day the Buddha Woke Up by Andrea Miller is a surprisingly delicate presentation of a story every Buddhist has heard over and over....
View ArticleBook Review: American Dharma by Ann Gleig
Just when I thought I had caught up with the winding path Buddhism took from Siddhartha to Asoka to Buddhist Modernism via McMahan and Braun, American Dharma adds another step in the evolution of...
View ArticleQuintessential Watts
Zen – A short introduction with illustrations by the author by Alan Watts (New World Library) is unbelievable at many levels. Small – actually tiny – yet huge in what it promises. Can Zen be compressed...
View ArticleThe Circle of the Way by Barbara O'Brien – Behind the Scenes in Zen-dom (book...
The Circle of the Way by Barbara O’Brien (Shambhala Publications) is an ambitious attempt to accomplish two key approaches in understanding Buddhist history. as our perspectives of Buddhism have...
View ArticleWritten within stones: Lockdowns, Chittadhar & the epic of the Buddha
We’re approaching the end of 2020. When the year began I had little to warn me of the massive changes to come, in my life and writ large on the global tablet. Ten months. How did you fare? As we enter...
View Article
