If you could recommend only one book to a very serious seeker interested in enlightment or the path what would it be?
Joseph Campbell "Hero with a thousand faces" http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/202-1730355-7574229
In all honesty, I would highly recommend the following: Snow in the Summer by Ven. Sayadaw U Jotika. Jotika was a Burmese monk (I would guess of the Therevada school), and Snow in the Summer is a collection of letters he wrote to his western disciples; I believe it was written in the mid-to-late 1980's and early 1990's. The book is free to download, as it is a dharma-gift. Jotika's letters are mostly ruminations on his own feelings and perceptions of the world, but they are remarkably insightful - I have read his writing a few times, now, and it has always brought me a measure of mental comfort and insight. However, it is only a start, if you are seeking enlightenment. Seeking enlightenment is a horse I've fallen from too many times, but I can say with conviction that no single book or teacher can show you the way; it requires time, paticence, effort, and the courage and determination to continue. Perhaps this will be a good start for you; it has been a comfort to me. With loving kindness, Brandon
Herman Hesse-Siddhartha This should be complusory reading for those who would like to expand the mind & soul in equal measure, life changing, more like universal truth in unbounded glory.
There are this small comic book with very short Zen stories selling in popular many years back...but i am not sure if it's still selling. anyway, i am a much happier person without having to bother about heaven and hell after reading it
The book that told me that there was only one absolute in life: that at its limits all spirituality is the same. Mystics, Masters, Saints and Sages. Add thoughtless-silence, meditation, to that ONLY-absolute and you will sooner or later Realize it because YOU ARE and ALL IS -- the only absolute.
