For the uninitiated , I am one of you. I recently happened to find Buddha , not one from a Feng Shui store but one from a book store. Deepak Chopra's Buddha is by far the best book of his I have read and a book which moved my core.
The book talks about the early life of Siddhartha ,how he became Gautama and eventually the all knowing omnipresent Buddha. The book is not a spiritual book , but one that talks about a young man's fears and doubts . It talks about a man, whose thirst of knowledge was very beyond his time, whose father would do almost anything to stop him from learning his destiny. Above all it talks about a young man not unlike you and me in search of his true destiny.
I find the book almost sacred , almost. Only because I would never treat the laughing Buddha or any Buddha for the matter, as a decor.
The book talks about the early life of Siddhartha ,how he became Gautama and eventually the all knowing omnipresent Buddha. The book is not a spiritual book , but one that talks about a young man's fears and doubts . It talks about a man, whose thirst of knowledge was very beyond his time, whose father would do almost anything to stop him from learning his destiny. Above all it talks about a young man not unlike you and me in search of his true destiny.
I find the book almost sacred , almost. Only because I would never treat the laughing Buddha or any Buddha for the matter, as a decor.
