Finished

About a week ago, I finally finished Thây Hanh's The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching. This is a tremendously useful read - I really think that this is definitely one time that the book lives up to the title.

When I was a kid I taught myself how to speed read - a tremendously useful skill, if you can keep your retention level up (I'm still at about 98%, thank goodness.). However, this is not a book that can be read trivially. I read this one SOOO slowly and carefully, going back over passages frequently.

I don't know that this is the first book I'd give someone who expresses an interest in Buddhism to me, but it would be the first one I'd recommend to someone I knew to be *seriously* interested.