Category: Books

An Awareness Place (Well-being Centre) customer wanted to have a copy of The Daily Enlightenment Book 1 and 2 each….

English version of ‘The Daily Enlightenment 1’ in Flash: http://www.buddhanet.net/flash/the-daily-enlightenment/index.html German version of ‘The Daily Enlightenment 1’: http://kaikensho.blogspot.com/2008/01/ber-daily-enlightenment.html Indonesian version…

Did you know that ‘Padme’ means ‘lotus’, as in ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’? Did you know that the Jedi Order…

‘The Daily Enlightenment 3: Reflections for Practising Buddhists’ is now available free at Singapore’s Awareness Place at Bras Basah Complex…

Inspired by the existentialist novel, The Outsider (L’Étranger) by Albert Camus: Sometimes we remark that someone is strange, as if…

Some interesting quotes below to share from ‘Stillness Speaks’ by Eckhart Tolle. The book’s ideas are not totally about Buddhism,…

In ‘Timbuktu’ by Paul Auster (illustrated by Julia Goschke for an abridged graphic novel), the author explores human homelessness via…

Snail-mailed slightly more than 100 copies of ‘The Daily Enlightenment 3: Reflections for Practising Buddhists’ so far – to generous…

[It’s weird when you discover you’re ‘supposed’ to be Cambodian monk when you are not. What would you do? This…

Here is more about the book and how you get it: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheDailyEnlightenment/message/660 Get it while stocks last! The Daily Enlightenment…

Just out of the printing house is ‘The Daily Enlightenment 3’. Look out for news of its launch in TDE…

The above billboard gives a hint of the heavy marketing for ‘Angels & Demons’, the prequel of ‘The DaVinci Code’…

Boarding the southbound train at around 9.45pm after work, an uplifting sight caught my eye. The man with outstretched legs…

Penguin books’ designs are getting really clever and cool these days. Gone are the days of Penguin’s stuffy bookish image….

Three intriguing reads from 2008, which remind me of Jianxie’s reviews: The Atheist Delusion: http://moonpointer.com/index.php?itemid=1738 The Beginning of Faith: http://moonpointer.com/index.php?itemid=1737…

In the book ‘The Meaning of Life’ by Terry Eagleton is this passage – “… we are in something like…