It’s a Good Read Review: The Buddha Walks Into A Bar… A Guide to Life For a New Generation by Lodro Rinzler
I see people wanting to learn to meditate more often now than I ever have before. Granted, we get to see the weird semi-private lives of people more than we ever have (thank you Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, SnapChat…). That desire to want to find a calm quiet place because life seems somewhat out of control makes sense. If you can give yourself 10 minutes on the meditation cushion (or cozy chair in my case) then you can, maybe, have a sane 10 minutes somewhere else in your day.
There are a slew of new books out there talking about mediation that I’m sure are trying to reach a younger audience and Lodro Rinzler’s book, “The Buddha Walks Into A Bar… A Guide to Life For a New Generation” falls in that pack. Don’t let that scare you away if you aren’t a 20-something living in a loft off of the last of your student loans or working for a start up and haven’t seen sleep in 48 hours. This book really is for anyone who wants to take their meditation practice off the mat and into their lives.
It’s all well and good to sit on a cushion for 10 – 60 minutes a day, but if we can’t learn to apply those lessons to our real lives what is the point. That is where Lodro shines. He takes you where you are and let’s you see how that practice of being still can apply to the crazy boss, the difficult friend, the upheaval of health issues – whatever you are facing. It’s practical and it is kind.
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He talks a lot about showing the real you and letting your internal goodness, your buddha nature, shine through. That idea is, personally, what compels me to work in difficult situations and sometimes just gets me through my day slaying emails left and right. “You let your motivation shine, and other people are attracted to your passion and commitment.“
He also talks about how we always want the new and shiny things and how that desire keeps us from loving the now. “It is the fact that we long for what we don’t have, and that makes us unhappy. It is the fact that when we get what we longed for, we’re already thinking about something new that could entertain us.”
I recommend his books to those of us who have been sitting for a while and want to move it off the cushion and for those just getting started to see what the possibilities are of living a life with a meditation practice.
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