Book discoveries...
Like you, I am an avid reader. Books serve a vital purpose and that is a conversation we can enjoy over a cup of tea or just "hanging out." While exploring a Buddhist perspective on belief, tradition and secular Buddhism I came across this book, "The Novice" by Stephen Schettini. Working towards adulthood in the sixties and seventies unrest was growing. Politics, the Vietnam War, civil unrest. Great division and the lack of uniting answers. The ability to ask questions and seek answers, a growing phenomenon where followers were being replaced by explorers. The ongoing quest for understanding the conflicts of life, generations spirituality. The newest generation thought; “Morality is doing what’s right regardless of what you’re told. Obedience is doing what you’re told regardless of what’s right.” (Noah Rasheta) Buddhism began to flourish in Europe before it began to spread into the American west coast. Students went east. The "Jesus Movement" b