Over the solstice, I attended an 8-day silent meditation retreat with Bhante Gunaratana at his Bhavana Society retreat center in West Virginia.

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Four Buddhisty book reviews. Gotta knock these four out in brief, so I can catch up on other stuff.

“The Karma of Questions”, Thanissaro Bikkhu

This was one of our dhamma book club selections. It was my first time ( Read more... )

Well, it took me six months, but I finally plowed my way through the 1200-page “Majjhima Nikaya: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha”, as well as “Pressing Out Pure Honey”, Sharda Rogell’s commentaries on each of the 152 suttas.

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