When the philosophy behind Vipassanā meditation started to resonate for me, I went through a phase of hoovering up as much as of the dhamma as I could get my paws on. Not content with my meditation center’s weekly dhamma talk, I subscribed to podcasts from teachers like Gil Fronsdal and Ajahn Brahm and drank deeply from the resulting firehose of ( Read more... )

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... )

Last year at this time, everyone who was anyone was juicing about their taking the 50 Book Challenge, as described in 50bookchallenge.

For myself, I didn’t do any juicing, and I really didn’t care to alter my lifestyle or my reading habits just to meet some arbitrary challenge. But I did decide that it’d be interesting to quietly record what I read for a year, ( Read more... )