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Title: Rambles
Review: Let me preface by saying I'm new to Buddhism. I found this book often hard to follow. The author seems to go on tangents and often does not expound on her thinking. She will start with one analogy and jump to another and then end with talking about something different. This is probably because these were talks given by the author. Talks sometimes don't transcribe well to written words, which is the case here. Take, for example the passage "True Suffering and False Suffering." The authors starts by telling a story about her friend, then she moves on to a friend giving her an article about suffering, then on to Shakespeare, then to a Sufi story, all in just a few pages. This may work well as a talk, but in a book this is just painful to follow ramblings.There does seem to be interesting philosophical points that the author makes, but it's beneath a sea of (sorry to say) garbage.
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