This is an insightful and very personal and profound exploration of the Gospels by a Buddhist Nun who, before taking her vows, was a Christian who became deeply dissatisfied with her life of faith.
Having tried with sincerity to approach my Christian journey in a way that was meaningful within the context of everyday life, I had reached a point of deep weariness and despair. I was weary with the apparent complexity of it all; despair had arisen because I was not able to find any way of working with the less helpful states that would creep, unbidden, into the mind: the worry, jealousy, grumpiness, and so on. And even positive states could turn around and transform themselves into pride or conceit, which were of course equally unwanted.
Looking back at the Gospels as a Buddhist nun, she sees them in an entirely different way. It’s a great exploration into Jesus’ humanity as well as the spiritual similarities of Jesus’ life, death, and teaching and Buddhist teaching and philosophy.
