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Title: Very shallow treatment of a complicated issue
Review: Very shallow treatment of the otherwise fascinating question of how one comes to an awareness of the Dharma.My life was messed up.I turned Buddhist.My life is good now.Buy my books.Evangelicals are so predictable.There seems to be a whole sub-genre of recent Buddhist writing, appealing to the disaffected postmodern twenty something seekers. Born-again Buddhist authors such as Noah Levine, Brad Warner, and Dinty W. Moore have established a certain brand of Buddhist minimalism designed to allow people to graze on enough spirituality and contemplation to reassert their belief in their own goodness. It's hard to take seriously, or with any depth any writing that begins quite so many sentences with the phrase "Buddhism is just..." something or other. Perhaps it's time we reassert that "Buddhism is more than..." that same something or other.
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