Meeting The Monkey Halfway

Book Summary

The world is full of confused people running around aimlessly, waiting for life to happen. Caught in a maze of mirrors, we spend most of our time bumping into the walls of confusion and chaos we have created. In terms of Buddhist reality, we have been swallowed up by our ego-I, which determines our relationship with the world. Meeting the Monkey Halfway is a spiritual instruction book that presents perspectives from the Buddha's view of the world and is offered as a remedial treatment. Just as medicines are intended to deal with dysfunction, illness, and injury, this spiritual path is meant to serve as a tool to bring radiating peace into our hearts and return us to our natural state of bliss. Insightful and compassionate Sumano Bhikkhu writes of our cultural and philosophical dilemma. We need to heal hate and try the sacred practice of forgiving. We also learn about using what we need, or we will bury ourselves with the "stuff" that clutters the mind and the living room. Bhikkhu says we can make a personal decision to have a spiritual life, to soften and open the heart so we can re-learn the compassion the Buddha -- and all the great teachers had centuries ago.

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