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October | 2014 | Buddhist Fiction Blog
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Light reading can be enlightening. Monthly Archives: October 2014. Bookstore Signs of the Times. October 1, 2014. Comments Off on Bookstore Signs of the Times. A Tale for the Time Being. I haven’t gone loopy I know this blog is about Buddhist fiction, but there are no library or bookstore categories for Buddhist fiction. So I wonder, as Buddhism becomes more and more mainstream in North America, when might we see a section labeled Buddhist Fiction in national chain bookstores? This blog was created for r...
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JOIN THE CONVERSATION | Special Karma: A Zen Novel of Love and Folly
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Special Karma: A Zen Novel of Love and Folly. By Merry White Benezra. The numbers of women and men harmed by spiritual teachers in Buddhist and other religious settings must form a not insignificant subset of the innumerable beings Buddhists have vowed to save. I invite everyone who has an opinion on this topic to join the conversation. November 3, 2011 at 12:54 am. Congratulations Merry, I know how difficult writing this novel has been for you. I sincerely look forward to reading my copy. And this bring...
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August | 2014 | Buddhist Fiction Blog
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Light reading can be enlightening. Monthly Archives: August 2014. August 3, 2014. Ah, summer. When the heat turns up, life seems to slow down a little, allowing time for more reading (hopefully! Sex is Forbidden: A Novel. New York, NY: Arcade Publishing, 2013. This novel deals with the age old challenges of celibacy and teacher-pupil relationships in Buddhism. From the Publisher’s website. Comic and poignant at the same time, swiftly paced and completely engaging, Sex Is Forbidden. In Paradise: A Novel.
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December | 2014 | Buddhist Fiction Blog
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Light reading can be enlightening. Monthly Archives: December 2014. The Season of Giving. December 28, 2014. Comments Off on The Season of Giving. Here in North America it is the holiday season, so I hope this short post finds everyone able to take some time away from work and refocus on spending time as you would like: with family, relaxing, at a retreat, etc. Comments Off on The Season of Giving. This blog was created for readers of Buddhist Fiction and, hopefully, will serve as space to share thoughts...
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Literary Journeys to Truth: December 2014
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Literary Journeys to Truth. Reviewing books about finding oneself through journeys, inner and outer. Monday, December 1, 2014. By Sally Wolfe, a novel about a woman who converts to Catholicism and becomes a nun. It was Thomas Merton who inspired the protagonist, and reading this caused me to recall my own reading of Merton and how I also felt drawn to Catholicism because of him, although, unlike the protagonist in. I never followed through. Because, God knows,. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I write, mostly...
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Literary Journeys to Truth: July 2014
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Literary Journeys to Truth. Reviewing books about finding oneself through journeys, inner and outer. Saturday, July 12, 2014. Embattled Saints: My Year with the Sufis of Afghanistan by Kenneth P. Lizzio. In a book I recently reviewed, Kenneth P. Lizzio tells a fascinating story of his life with present-day Sufis, adding much historical background to his tale. See my review here:. Http:/ www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2014 07 020733.php. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Literary Journeys to Truth.
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Literary Journeys to Truth: George Eliot, Self-Centeredness and Fiction
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Literary Journeys to Truth. Reviewing books about finding oneself through journeys, inner and outer. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. George Eliot, Self-Centeredness and Fiction. Not too long ago I received an email from an acquaintance who, knowing I'd written a novel, and perhaps as an apology for being uninterested in reading it, said that he and his wife didn't read novels anymore as such reading material was incompatible with their spiritual journeys. Perhaps, then, a spiritual novel is not so much about ...
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Literary Journeys to Truth: Was Lewis Carroll enlightened?
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Literary Journeys to Truth. Reviewing books about finding oneself through journeys, inner and outer. Thursday, December 17, 2015. Was Lewis Carroll enlightened? I daresay I'm like most of my contemporaries in knowing about Lewis Carroll's Alice. Books – without having read them. As a child, I owned a 45 rpm record containing the songs from the 1951 Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland. And I saw the movie as well. But, having just read Anthony Lane's article in the June 8 and 15, 2015. How when that player ...
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Literary Journeys to Truth: March 2014
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Literary Journeys to Truth. Reviewing books about finding oneself through journeys, inner and outer. Sunday, March 9, 2014. Eat, Pray Love: On Being Oneself. And, wouldn't you know it, she is almost immediately called to the job assignment office and told that she will have a new job - hostess for arrivals at the retreats about to be held! And life is like that, too, isn't it? In Thomas Hardy's JUDE THE OBSCURE similarly we have a character who wants to be what he is not. The whole book is about how ...
