Buddhist in general

PART ONE The giant, curving sensuous leaves, lit from behind by the sun, shone bright amber, mauve and lemon. "What about these trees?" I said to Rahayu as we walked along a path through some rainforest in South West Java. "Pretty big and solid, eh?" "Not solid," said Rahayu. "The Darma, the Law of Nature, is the only solid thing we have." "The tree looks solid to me!" "The trees and our bodies are made up of subatomic particles and empty space. You probably know the subatomic particles are not really solid. They exist only for a trillionth of a second." ...  Read the complete review

I'm going to write about Buddhist books here. The section title tends to imply writing about Buddhism. I'll stick with books though. It's amazing that when you pick up most Buddhist books you are in fact picking up Zen Buddhist ones. Not that this is a bad thing but there should at least be a small hint as to what the source is. Picking up a book such as Buddhism Plain and Simple, you'd think that you would be getting an over view of the whole of Buddhism, wrong. Look before you leap. I find that since becoming a Buddhist I am much more careful about the books I buy. This is partly due to the fact that you get bogged down with different ...  Read the complete review