Author: Edward Canfor-Dumas
Publisher: RandomHouse
ISBN: 9781844135684
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Ed is having a hard time, at work, in love life and, well, generally. Then he meets an unlikely Buddhist who drinks and smokes and talks his kind language. Bit by bit, things begin to change.....
Ed doesn't always take Geoff's advice. Or, when he does he lapses at the crucial moment. His path to understanding is not a straight one, especially as life keeps throwing more and more 'stuff' at him. Often he fails like most of us, in fact. But sometimes he manages to get it right. And when he does, surprising things begin to happen....
Edward Canfor-Dumas is an award-winning TV writer whose work includes Not The Nine O'Clock News, The Bill, Kavanagh QC, Tough Love, Pompeii: The Last Day and Supervalcano. In The Buddha, Geoff & Me he brings all his skills to bear in an absorbing story of everyday city life, where the characters stand out with all their human strengths and weaknesses, and the ending brings Ed and perhaps all of us? A hope we didn't necessarily expect.
The Buddha, Geoff & Me for anyone who's ever begun to wonder what the whole damn thing is all about...
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Sure an easy read and yet thought provoking, and demonstrates how these Buddhist teachings offer personal and social transformation which can be applied to our daily lives to create happiness for ourselves and others. After reading the book, I think now, to introduce Buddhism to non-Buddhist friends will be easy. This book is defenitely unfold them 'petal by petal', especially to those who labeled Buddhism nothing but religion, statue-worshiper and something like Taoism. Previously when I am talking or discussing anything related to Buddhism, people who're in different religions will straight away people will have uneasy feeling. It was hard to as the Dharma are taught in a right way and right time.
What I like about this book is the author brilliantly choose a novel-type in introduce such simple philosophy to someone who is not quite familiar with Buddhism. Hoping to get more similar books.
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