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The Simplest Buddhism
by Chauncey Mabe | South Florida
Sun-Sentinel
October 10, 2008
To the casual Western inquirer, Buddhism can seem as forbidding as a silent monastery on a snowy mountainside.
So much unfamiliar mythology to be digested! So much esoteric doctrine confronting the Judeo-Christian and/or scientific mind -- the Eight-fold this, the Four-fold that! Or is that Taoism?
In Light Comes Through, the Colorado-based Buddhist teacher Dzigar Kongtrul provides a primer for those who would like to benefit from a little Buddhist perspective without necessarily embarking on a course of arduous discipline.
Setting aside the details of Buddhist doctrine, Kongtrul presents a simple distillation of its understanding of human nature. (Read the full review.)
Work Matters Blog, 11/23/08
"I have posted on how best to show appreciation to others in the workplace but have yet to talk about how we get from intending to do so to actual doing it. So when I read a passage from "Light Comes Through: Buddhist Teachings on Awakening to Our Natural Intelligence" by Dzigar Kongtrul, I saw one way of doing so." (Read more) - Work Matters, A Blog About Employment and Labor Law by Michael P. Maslanka
The Buddhist Studies Shelf, Spring, 2008
A superbly written and thoroughly 'reader friendly' treatise, "Light Comes Through" is inspired and inspiring -- and an essential, core addition to personal, academic, and community library Buddhist Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
(Read the full review.)
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