what are you reading??....plan on reading in the future??

okkee dokkeee dohkkee.........new here just finding me bearings and can see there are a lot of threads on individual books....but sometimes it works better to have one thread with everyone sharing their current read and hopeful future read..then individual threads can sprout from really great books that have a shared interest.....

Im currently reading
Dharma, Colour and Culture
new voices in western buddhism
edited by Hilda Gutierez baaldoquin

really enjoying it, I don't know a great deal about buddhism.. but this is an insight to which I can totally relate!!

recent past reads that I have thoroughly enjoyed and which I highly recommend...

Bones of The Master
George Crane.....

planning to read in the future??....absolutely loads!! but I can't recall them all right now, it's time for me bed!!

picked up
Wild Ivy
the spiritual autobiogrpahy
of Zen Master
Hakuin

browsing in a second hand shop...

I'm currently trying to read "F**k it: the ultimate spiritual way" by John C Parkin.

It seems a really good book. However, I'm also trying to knit a serape and I find myself doing that more than reading!

reading is very time consuming...but I'm lucky in that I work in a very peaceful art gallery and get to catch up on a lot of reading...

what is a serape?

Shakti ~ Rising wrote:reading is very time consuming...but I'm lucky in that I work in a very peaceful art gallery and get to catch up on a lot of reading...

what is a serape?

lol... I knew someone would ask that!

It's a sort of wrap that is split down the front and you wrap it around yourself.

a fancy word for shawl.. ahaha

I thought the book your reading
was suppose to have humor in it.
It sounds like its not holding your
interest over the knitting

A Mexican poncho /shawl
Interesting word "serape"
for me the word "rape" was
very visual over the whole
word "serape" also spelt "sarape"

hai friends,

i have plan to start to reading Srimad Bhagavad-Gita , i little bit explain about this.

" The Bhagavad- Gita is considered by eastern and western scholars alike to be among the greatest spiritual books the world has ever known. In a very clear and wonderful way the Supreme Lord Krishna describes the science of self-realization and the exact process by which a human being can establish their eternal relationship with God. In terms of pure, spiritual knowledge the Bhagavad- Gita is incomparable. Its intrinsic beauty is that its knowledge applies to all human beings and does not postulate any sectarian idealogy or secular view. It is appproachable from the sanctified realms of all religions and is glorified as the epitome of all spiritual teachings. This is because proficiency in the Bhagavad- Gita reveals the eternal principles which are fundamental and essential for spiritual life from all perspectives and allows one to perfectly understand the esoteric truths hidden within all religious scriptures. Many great thinkers from our times such as Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweizer as well as Madhvacarya, Sankara and Ramanuja from bygone ages have all contemplated and deliberarted upon its timeless message. The primary purpose of the Bhagavad- Gita is to illuminate for all of humanity the realization of the true nature of divinity; for the highest spiritual conception and the greatest material perfection is to attain love of God".

vijaybali wrote:i have plan to start to reading Srimad Bhagavad-Gita , i little bit explain about this.

Hi vijaybali.

I read a Bhagavad-Gita some 20 years ago, probably in 1985 or so.

This week I finished two books:
Breath: A Novel, by Tim Winton and
Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri.

Breath is the coming of age tale of a teenage surfer-boy set in Australia. Unaccustomed Earth is a set of eight short stories about the life of a Hindu woman growing up in America. Both are excellent and I will be re-reading them sometime again next year.

vijaybali wrote:hai friends,

i have plan to start to reading Srimad Bhagavad-Gita , i little bit explain about this.

" The Bhagavad- Gita is considered by eastern and western scholars alike to be among the greatest spiritual books the world has ever known. In a very clear and wonderful way the Supreme Lord Krishna describes the science of self-realization and the exact process by which a human being can establish their eternal relationship with God. In terms of pure, spiritual knowledge the Bhagavad- Gita is incomparable. Its intrinsic beauty is that its knowledge applies to all human beings and does not postulate any sectarian idealogy or secular view. It is appproachable from the sanctified realms of all religions and is glorified as the epitome of all spiritual teachings. This is because proficiency in the Bhagavad- Gita reveals the eternal principles which are fundamental and essential for spiritual life from all perspectives and allows one to perfectly understand the esoteric truths hidden within all religious scriptures. Many great thinkers from our times such as Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweizer as well as Madhvacarya, Sankara and Ramanuja from bygone ages have all contemplated and deliberarted upon its timeless message. The primary purpose of the Bhagavad- Gita is to illuminate for all of humanity the realization of the true nature of divinity; for the highest spiritual conception and the greatest material perfection is to attain love of God".

Hi vj,

This sounds like something I would like to read...Thanks for bringing this info here to the forum...I was wondering if anyone knows how many times it`s been translated, and who`s translation is the best one to read?

RJ

...nice profile pic Buck!!

I have a couple of versions also ( buried on my bookshelves somewhere)and an interesting wee book called The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita by Paramahansa Yogananda...this book offers some interesting insights, you may find this helpful to read alongside what ever version you pick up RJ....

started reading DMT the Spirit Molecule, Rick Strassman yesterday...... I'm loving it...

I've got an early Christmas present thanks to the closing down of Borders bookshop. It's "A Course in Miracles", which I've been wanting to get since I first came across it about fifteen years ago. It's what I intend to read over Christmas. Anyone else read it?

heard of it, never read it.. you'll have to share your views when you've read it...

Tried it last year, but since my ego thinks i'm so special already, i never carried on much, hehe.

I hear it's quite something though!

thats the second time I've noticed you mention your ego today.....you battling with your different selves?? is your ego winning..or is your ego so sly that he can see that your spiritual self is rising so in order to stop it getting too attuned to its true nature is your ego telling you its your ego in order to use a bit of reverse psychology??.....ahahah...confused? i am

i'm wondering, is it my ego that's saying you're full of it, or is that merely my ego trying to disguise the fact that i'm the one full of it! most likely the latter!

perhaps a bit of both...

started readin 2012 and beyond by dianna cooper today.....hmmmm mixed feelings from me some of the stuff resonates, but I seem to be shouting out bollocks quite a lot! ahahaha

ordered Cutting Through Spiritual Materialsim, Choygram Trungpa

what kinda 2012 stuff she say? Planet x/Nibiru? Cataclysms?

You can read some snippets online...she talks about alsorts Wayne, but in a very positive vein.....although again I kept getting the bollocks spouting going on......I was thinking about this book this morning.....There seems to be no real 'body' to it...I had the image of a wet lettuce leaf that was limp and wouldn't flutter on the wind.....there was so little of it's content to open my heart and get my excitement flowing...a dissapointment was what this book was....I have read some of her other books and absolutely loved them ( her fictional ones, with a spiritual theme) but this is the third book of hers now that I have read and felt spiritually deflated...I feel her view is narrowing as opposed to opening....for a start off I cannot stand names being given to guides, angels,'rulers of chakras' ect.....and I actually find her words rather leaning towards the christian and slightly partriachal way....they just don't resonate like I hoped they might....for someone of self-defined authority on certain subjects I feel she should go a little more indepth into the hows and whys of the things she claims to know....Quite frankly I could have wrote that book with my own knowledge based on research .......heheheh I'm not bitching , but it didn't cut the mustard.....no real deopth for me......


I started reading Physics of the Impossible by Mikio Kaku, now only a couple of pages in, my excitement is flowing already....

Just odered Beyond 2012 Geoff Stray perhaps this will have more body

OOh most certainly does, lots of interstings ideas in this book!!