realjame started reading Teachings of Zen by Thomas Cleary
This is one of a dozen or so old books my aunt gave me a few months ago, so I'm finally looking into this one because it's a topic I've been interested in exploring for a while. I've read the first 20 pages, it's really interesting so far. I'm writing in the book, which is something I've been conflicted on doing but I think for this, where i have so many thoughts and questions, anecdotes to write, it makes sense. Journaling in the book, it honestly feels like I'm having a conversation with the book in the sense that I write my thoughts, and then I read on? Might sound crazy, but it's a really interesting approach to reading this specific book. The contents of the book itself use ways of thinking that are a bit unique for me to wrap my head around, so it's something of a journey to grasp. But I think I'm starting to understand the key concepts of this whole buddhism thing, maybe ill write it in a blog post or something idk. But cool book. Very good and cool