Lama Rinzen Mystery Series
Coming Oct 2022
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About the Lama Rinzen Mystery Series
Crime Mysteries Wrapped Inside Buddhist Mysteries
What does that mean, a crime mystery wrapped in a Buddhist mystery?
It could mean it’s a challenge. A question if any solution can ever be as fixed and certain as we’d like it to be.
Is a mystery still a mystery once it’s figured out? Can true mysteries ever be figured out?
Or are the solutions we assign them nothing more than delusions meant to calm us and convince us we’re in control?
The Buddha says we should experience the world intimately and not as something our minds need to unravel. The Buddha teaches us to drop such abstract thinking and experience the world directly without the need to impose our egos pm top of it.
Thinking things through does not provide solutions. Only direct in-the-moment experience does that.
In each Lama Rinzen Mystery the lama must learn a Buddhist lesson and solve a crime. But lessons can be tricky. Only when the lama stops trying to explain them does the lesson become clear.
When the lesson awakens us, that’s when we understand its mystery.
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