It’s all Dharma

Often late to the party, I think I started reading my favourite book of 2013 in the final days of the year. ‘Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong’ by Norman Fischer is quite frankly the book on Lojong that I’ve always been looking for and comes coincidentally at a time when this is the very set of practices that I’m undertaking as part of the Nalandabodhi Path of Meditation program.

It’s funny because when I mentioned this book a week or so ago in a post, Jomon from Nothing to Attain in a comment mentioned that they were ‘like a televangelist about this book for a while’ and I’m pretty much feeling the same way. Nathalie (who’s blog I adore) mentioned that a quote from the book that I posted really resonated with her and that she sent it on to three other friends, and I’ve been reading passages aloud to my atheist husband after making a ‘Whoosh. Pow! Oh my” sound after reading a particular piece from the book.

It’s really that good friends. It is.

Stay tuned for a review of sorts. I’m 3/4 of the way through reading the book - barring me running off to become a Zen practitioner.

It’s all Dharma.