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Please Recommend
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Please recommend anything you enjoy (films, books, experiences, places) - be it Buddhism related or not.
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or just say hi!
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or just say hi!
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It is the best book I have ever read. EVER! (and I read a lot of books)
Pick it up if you can.
Love, as always,
Dave
it is a book to be with, nothing more nothing less.
I'm considering it a form of meditation, because I cannot comprehend what this book is trying to say. I am almost finished with it - it has taken me longer to read than any other book I have ever read. Instead I've given up trying to make sense of it, and just concentrate on the movement of my eyes as they follow the words.
Well, I am reading "The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin" and "The Lotus Sutra." They are both very good. I have made a list of the books that have been mentioned here and I will give them a read as well. I wish to learn about other sects of Buddhism other than my own because I feel it will give me a more rounded knowledge of Buddhism.
Adiana
"Life of Pi" by Yann Martell
The weird story of a boy shipwrecked and surviving alone in the lifeboat with a bengal Tiger.... worth reading for his little philosophical insights alone.
"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden
naturally convinced I was that Geisha....
The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying. Sogyal Rinpoche.
need I say more....?
FILMS
Babette's Feast.
Manon des Sources & Jean de Fleurette.
Samsara
The Last Samurai
Blazing saddles (from the sublime to the cor blimey!!)
Spring, summer, fall, winter....and spring
by Kim Ki-Duk
(Korean)
Enlightenment Guaranteed
by Doris Dörrie
(German)
Cemetery Man
by Michele Soavi
(Italian)
Pi
by Darren Aronofsky
(American)
Books:
All of the Saga of Recluse
by L. E. Modesitt Jr.
All of the Dune series
by Frank Herbert
Patipada
by Phra Ajaan Maha Boowa
Angels and Demons/Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Have you read any of his other books? I have Digital Fortress, but I haven't gotten Deception Point just yet.
Believe it or not, right before I found this site, I saw the movie Little Buddha. It's pretty interesting--it takes the life of the Buddha and a little boy (who could be an incarnation) and puts them together to create a unique story. (Keanu Reeves plays Siddhartha.
I'm not very good at explaining things, but this movie's worth a shot.
Cloudstreet, Tim Winton - this is an australian book, but absolute poetry.
The Spice Box of Earth - Leonard Cohen. Brilliant poet.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn. Still not sure if I got this or not. If anyone has read it I would appreciate opinions...
Meeting a new family with parents who are so in love with their infant it makes you want to cry at the beauty of it all.
:bigclap:
In films, however, it is Kundun that takes the prize for me. It will, I believe, come to be seen as a near-perfect memorial to a Tibet which is being eradicated. It has everything a film should have (except romance! although it has friendship and loneliness which are so much more real). Philip Glass's music is superb. It was also the reason we went to Dharamshala!
As for books? I can't even dream of starting!
P.S. I really don't like Seven Years in Tibet.
The book or the film?
I enjoyed the book, for what it was.
Have read "One day in the life....." What's not to get?
Kundun is a fantastic film. I saw it when it first was released, I think I was about 17, and loved it.
I read the book donkeys' years ago and remember enjoying it, then. The film is (IMHO) terrible! I looked at the book again and found it very Harrer-centric!
He was a Mountain climber, after all!! Though I would say he does not deny his arrogance/egotism, as far as I could tell, in the book.
I can't comment until I know what the comment was so what was the comment? (teehee!)
Yeah, I have read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. I also agree that it is a good book. I read it in high school and again in college.
Adiana
I've seen Kundun and I never thought about it that way until you mentioned it, but you're right: That movie is a beautiful eulogy to Tibet.
So maybe I should just ignore her comment and go with what I thought in the first place hey?
(Aunt Pat is very cultured and refined, a retired antique dealer and sometimes a little pretentious.)
I'm separated by too many miles, from my precious and deeply loved B/F... He's on one side of the country working ('this country' being France) and I'm way over on the other. I'll see him again in September! Anyway, I write to him once or twice a week... long letters, three or four pages.... I put all my innermost thoughts in there and express myself very liberally (I am an incurable Sentimental Romantic!) and have to date sent him about 7 'novels' to read....! But the other day, with all these letters, and everything I'd written to him... he picked up on one tiny little phrase and it bugged him all day.....!
Many moons ago, I used to study and practise Shiatsu. During my course, I attended a weekend workshop on 'intuitive Shiatsu' where we learned to literally let our SoulGuides or Inner Masters, guide us in our treatments of others. Very interesting.... Anyway, (again!) one aspect of this was to do a precis diagnosis of a person's temperament.... and one of the things which came up about me, was that 'I love Too Much'. Now bear in mind this was about 8 years ago, and I was still extremely wet behind the ears about Buddhism, and the things I have learned since then... so maybe at that time, because of my insecurities, and my needy nature to be loved, I DID tend to over-Love, in the hope of getting same back... it was a Conditional Love, if you like, but extreme.
I mentioned this comment, out of context, to Nick in my letter, and he could only think of the fact that at that time I was with my ex- (of whom he does not have a high opinion!) and that I wasted all my Love on someone he regards as shallow, useless and parasitic!
Nick, the poor babe, has some issues he's aware of, and together, consciously, we're working them out. He wants to emerge from the Prison and slavery of his own self-created illusions and conditioning.... these things take time.... but he's very jealous of the years he perceives as wasted with that man, when at various times in our lives, we were "running parallel" and were only about three miles away from each other.... really odd.... (Anyway 3!!)
What I'm saying in a very verbose way (now you see why my letters are so long!!
is that someone may say something to us, but it is WE who permit it to affect us in ways probably never intended! Eleanor Roosevelt said "No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent." By permitting the words of another person to affect us to the core, we effectively hand control of Who we are and What we believe to another person. Nick sees this, and knows it's silly and irritating.
The book isn't highbrow. Alexander Soljenitchyszin (Oh, look, I don't know how it's spelt!!) never intended it to be highbrow... he was just writing a book on a gulag prisoner, and how tough it is to survive, and what extreme measures are needed. Your aunt may be a bit pretentious and superior, and her comment was tactless and off the cuff.... not thought out at all. However, the fact you still harbour an 'insecurity' regarding what she said about you, is something you'll have to work through. It's not her fault it still rubs on you.... do you see?
Look, I've finished! Go wash your coffee cup up and tidy away!
Maybe it is so low brow, it is highbrow....
Thanks Fed, you have restored my faith in my book intelligence.