Walk The Walk

Continuing his down-to-earth explanations and advice from a Buddhist perspective, columnist and teacher Lodro Rinzler picks up where his previous book left off in Walk Like A Buddha: Even If Your Boss Sucks, Your Ex Is Torturing You, and You're Hungover Again.  In the form of an advice column, complete with anonymous questions from readers, Rinzler tackles our modern-day issues and problems by laying down some millennia-old guidance, with a focus on the Shambhala tradition.  HM

Buddha Lite?

Is there a punch line to Rinzler's jokelike title of The Buddha Walks Into A Bar? Not one, but many. Yet this is in no way a superficial treatise. A young, New York-based Buddhist teacher who will connect especially well with readers in their twenties and thirties, Rinzler is able to take a relaxed, colloquial approach to meditation and its many benefits because he's so well versed in Shambhala and Tibetan Buddhism. As sophisticated as his knowledge is, however, he addresses the basics with energizing specificity, beginning with how to make time to meditate and discern one's core motivation.  Rinzler cogently explains how the cultivation of generosity, discipline, patience, joyous exertion, tenderness, and social consciousness can help individuals resolve conflicts associated with work, family, romance, sex, money, and health. With examples ranging from superheroes to YouTube videos, Rinzler brings timeless teachings to the buzz of now in an engaging, richly instructive, genuinely illuminating spiritual guide.--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2010 Booklist