The Search For Enlightenment

Apart from chanting my way to work, my favourite bit of my Buddhist day is listening to my podcasts, shutting the world out, and entering the World of Learning.

I keep banging on about Edward Canfor-Dumas’ The Buddha, Geoff and Me, but I must have listened to the podcasts twenty or thirty times.

It’s not just a really good story, read beautifully, in convenient bite sized episodes, it covers pretty much every aspect of Nichiren Buddhism at least once.

So I listen to my good friends, Ed, Geoff, Dora and Piers weaving their way through the story, the ups, the downs and every time I take in a little bit more.

I truly believe that the book should be a compulsory read for every school kid, and parent too actually. It’s a modern classic, in my opinion, and could change the whole world given the chance.

It’s not for everyone, my mother doesn’t like the bad language and it’s a bit too complicated to take in on a single read, but I implore you, listen to one chapter and give it a chance. Chapter seven is my favourite, but that’s just me.