the challenge of the mind

Finished reading "The Challenge of the Mind" (a practical approach to the essential Buddhist teaching of Karma), by Ryuho Okawa. Not the easiest Buddhist book I've read to date, and definitely not the most difficult. They love using complicated terms and phrases, that you have to read a few times just to understand, never mind grasp the concepts.

Anyway, I've read a lot of Buddhist books to date, and still battle to understand many of the principles. Overall this was a pretty good book which clarified a number of things in plain understandable english. I really liked the fact that each chapter is divided into really small sections of about 2 to 5 pages each, which helps to break things down into very small digestible chunks.

I'd put it about third in my list of Buddhist books, after "Buddhism Without Beliefs", by Stephen Batchelor, and my little "Pocket Buddha Reader".