One of America's favorite teachers, Natalie Goldberg has inspired millions to write as a way to develop an intimate relationship with their minds and a greater understanding of the world in which they live. Now, through this honest and wry exploration of her own life, Goldberg puts her teachings to work.
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Interesting sometimes, mostly boring, no insight:
I love her stories, I wish she had not had such a tone of judgment toward the people she was writing about, especially her mother and father. Then a lot of the stuff she wrote could have been taken in by the reader in an authentic way. I'm sure she didn't intend judgment but it definitely came through in everything she said. Plus, I wanted more information for the stories to be great. I found myself confused several times. And she sounded pretty self-absorbed and in the victim role the whole time. I was... more info
School for Wonder review:
Natalie Goldberg gives us a rare chance to read about how devotional love and honesty are a path filled with disappointments and mirrors. I was delighted to find this book in print, after years of feeling alone in my desire to reveal the truth about my own teachers. Courage is hard won in this memoir, and the writing is vivid, making me run back to the memoir I started when I met Natalie, just before Katagiri Roshi died. My own parents and spiritual teachers used language in ways that made me... more info
pure DHARMA!:
A lot of people naively equate Buddhism with vegetarianism, pacifism, incense and robes and statues of a potbellied man sitting cross-legged, fuzzy-wuzzy "love everybody even the mosquitoes" cumbiyah type sentiments. Yet the essential core teaching of Buddhism, which most people (especially Westerners) find wholly incomprehensible and/or deeply frightening, is that of EMPTINESS: the ultimate reality that all phenomena is empty of any independent or permanent self-existence; that everything is constantly... more info
Spiritual and not spiritual:
Browsing in a library today I picked up this book and, I confess, only read bits and pieces of it. I don't like this kind of "truth-telling," but in some way it is, indeed, compelling. The author is obviously intelligent, emotionally gifted, and a good writer. She also appears to be a genuine and sincere spiritual seeker. But that doesn't make this a good book. You will notice in several places in the book that the author feels compelled a) to find out the truth and b) to tell it. I couldn't disagree... more info
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