Title: Rice & sesame salt
Product review: Do not buy this book unless it's to read as a bedtime story to the under 9 set that you are trying to raise as Buddhists. It's sickenly sweet, unbearably redundant, and very shallow (there's little that can be considered remotely deep Buddhist thought). Sidhartha sits and meditates and becomes enlightened, then he goes from town to town where people offer him rice with sesame salt and hundreds upon hundreds of people instantly convert to Buddhism after he says "nothing is permanent & everything is interconnected." That's about it, page after page after page. This is my third book I've read by Hanh & I just don't get his popularity.
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