by Aseem Gupta | Sep 27, 2023 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 37 MinutesHow to Sit looks almost too small to contain a philosophy of meditation. Published by Parallax Press as the first volume in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Mindfulness Essentials series, the book consists of 64 brief “Notes on Sitting” followed by five...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 26, 2022 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 43 MinutesThe Lotus and the Cross imagines an encounter that never happened: Jesus and Gautama Buddha sharing a boat in Bangkok while talking with a dying woman named Priya and the boatman carrying them through the city. Ravi Zacharias uses that...
by Aseem Gupta | May 31, 2020 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 44 MinutesMost books about happiness begin with an assumption that Will Buckingham refuses to grant: that everyone already knows what happiness is. Introducing Happiness: A Practical Guide, first published by Icon Books in 2012, instead begins by asking...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 29, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 48 MinutesZen Mind, Beginner’s Mind has become one of the most recognizable books about Zen in the English-speaking world, yet its familiarity can obscure what kind of book it actually is. It is easy to encounter Shunryu Suzuki through isolated sayings...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 18, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 35 MinutesThich Nhat Hanh’s The Art of Mindfulness looks, at first, like a very small book about a very familiar idea: pay attention to the present moment. Yet the work becomes much more demanding than that description suggests. What begins with tea,...
