877 Sogyal Rinpoche
Do you have a
list of your five favourite books? Mine goe like this (there are two lists, and they are in no
particular order):
Spirituality:
Siddharta - by Herman Hesse
Freedome from the Known - by
Jiddu Krishnamurti
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism - by D.T. Suzuki
The
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - by Sogyal Rinpoche
The Book of Atheist
Spirituality - by André Compte-Sponville
Science:
Cosmos - by Carl Sagan
God and the New Physics, The Big Questions etc - by Paul Davies
A Brief History of Time - by
Stephen Hawking
A Universe From Nothing - by
Lawrence M. Krauss
The Self-Aware Universe - by
Amit Goswami
There are approximately another twenty
books I list as having been important to me (here’s the complete list … again,
in no particular order).
The author of
one of the books is in the news (well, has been for about twenty years) for all
the wrong reasons: Sogyal Rinpoche is accused of having sexually and violently abused
followers for all that time.
I only became aware of this sad state of
affairs this weekend (SMH), but a quick Google search confirms just how long this has
been going on. How remarkable ... there is a Buddhist teacher among the Weinsteins, Spaceys, Trumps of the world!
I have an essay INTIMACY in my book en.light.en.ment