OK. So we’ve all seen the bumper sticker “Buddhism is not What you Think” (Admittedly, I never did like the ‘My dogma ran over my karma’ one)
Last week, I picked up a book by Steve Hagen with the same title and I must say, I like what I’m reading so far. The book focuses upon an examination of reality and how we perceive and misperceive our world.
The book starts with the following warning (which sets it apart from all of the feel-good, self improvement books that I tend to read!!) :
“This is not a feel-good, self improvement book about how to become more spiritual. It’s an intensely practical book about how to live our daily lives openly and honestly, with wisdom and compassion. It’s a book about being awake to Reality- about being human.”
The author, a Zen teacher who was a student of Dainin Katagiri Roshi is currently head teacher at Dharma Field Zen Centre
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