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    <body><![CDATA[Steve Hagan makes perfect sense of this enormous and complex subject, getting to the heart of what it’s all about in a wonderfully straightforward way that is actually  Zen-like in its simplicity. He uses parables, some drawn from his own experience as a Zen priest and some from Buddhist tradition...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80386721">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an easy read and, I think, an excellent introduction to Buddhism or, as the author likes to put it, the buddha-dharma.  According to Hagen:<br/><br/>&quot;Real Buddhism is not really as &quot;ism.&quot;  It's a process, an awareness, an openness, a spirit of inquiry-not a belief system, o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46655268">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I took this book out at the library renewed it two times , read it about 3 times and I still feel like there's so much to lean about buddhism . The book explained so many questions that I'd always wanted answers to. I grew up religious going to church and you realize how much Dogma you have engraine...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64671376">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely blew my mind.  So much truth in what he says, but so upsetting to all my assumptions about the world. In aspiring to its ideals and conception of reality, people would be transformed for the better.  Ultimately, while it's philosophically interesting, I think most people can't or don't wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40755313">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is exactly what it says &quot;Plain and Simple.&quot;  I've been a Buddhist for awhile and I still found this introductory work quite refreshing and rather helpful.  Hagen essentially takes out all the cultural aspects, all the colorful clothing, rituals, etc. out of Buddhism and gets down...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40897740">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Best beginners/basic book on Buddhism that I have come across. The title says it all.]]></body>
    
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