Lama Rinzen Mystery Series

by Jim Ringel

FINALIST, Foreword Reviews Best Mystery

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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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Writing Like a Buddha is a blog for writers. It includes thoughts, meditations and writing exercises to help authors see the world anew.

In Buddhism, every moment is a rebirth. A step outside of the normal into a burst of reawakening. We call these bardo moments—time in between past and future, between where we’ve been and where we are heading.

That is what we do as writers. Reimagine the ordinary as something new. Writing Like a Buddha is meant to help us experience the world fresh, and not as we already know it. Whether you are a poet or prose writer, a fiction or non-fiction writer, I invite you to engage in the exercises, offer comments, ask questions, and contribute ideas. Let’s create a mindful exchange of tips and practices to benefit us all.