Goodreads Doesn't Have it, Data Migration: Buddhist Boot Camp
This is actually a really good book.
There's a bunch of fake Christian filth trying to attack and terrorize people who even read Buddhist literature or worship Buddhism trying to get them back to Christianity. I want to be clear. What they are doing is illegal and makes Christianity look hideous. Christians who try to co-opt and peel off Buddhists for Christianity make Christianity look repulsive. They need to be removed. Let people decide which of the two works best for them. If you have the truth on your side no peeling off will be necessary. Like incels, use of force is not necessary when the truth is on your side. The only people who do that are people who know they have nothing to offer the other person. You want people to associate Christianity with that? Keep doing that. You'll lose every last one.
This book is excellent. It bridges the gaps between Christianity and Buddhism. It talks about Christ's altruism and speaks on what God means to him without being prescriptive, but having a personal spiritual encounter with a definition where he feels he can have real faith in God.
A lot of people have 0 comprehension of Buddhism and think it's just abuse and giving things up. That would be, in contrast, the repulsive form of Buddhism. This book is pretty clear, that's not what that's about at all. That's a 0 comprehension form of Buddhism.
I like the content that every day is a cake and you can bake it how you can in what ways you can. When you have repulsive ingredients, like torture, vanity, and narcissism, you bake a cake that makes people want to throw up. But if you have good ingredients like gratitude, self-discipline and other features you can make something worth your while.
This book was apparently just an organization of Facebook posts, and he doesn't really consider himself a strong writer. However, this book is great to emphasize self-discipline and demanded better for ourselves--not just torturing people taking things away from them r*pe style--while having an understanding of the root of suffering.
Screaming "I'm suffering" may be the first step, and then saying "I'm really suffering" the second, but the next is to understand the precepts and the paths to the cessation of suffering.
That includes right livelihood, right association, etc from the eightfold path.
https://www.lionsroar.com/right-livel...
If you have a job where you murder people, or if you pop people off for money because you can't think with one more braincell how to make money for yourself, you will be in profound suffering for the rest of your life and baffled why it never ceases, in fact gets worse. It's not an intelligent approach as it compounds, not resolves the suffering in the way they think it would resolve it. If your answer completely flunks in its intended goal, it is a low intelligence, non-functioning solution.
Here's more on the 4 Precepts and the Eightfold path. https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features...) (https://www.parallax.org/mindfulnessb...) This book is an excellent role model in truly respecting and listening to Christianity and other religions while still feeling that Buddhism provided the right answer. Targetting, terrorizing and trying to peel off Buddhists for Christianity makes Christianity look truly repulsive. If that's the only Christians I have met, I would probably be throwing up every time I saw a Christian church. Luckily, many of the Christians in this world today still are great thinkers and problem solvers. In fact, Christianity is one of the best solutions to narcissism as Buddhism does have a slight altruism deficit.
That said, we live in a world that doesn't understand the findings of this paper, that altruism is actually the highest intelligence level in many cases ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...) and thinks of altruism like the lowest in a pack of dogs who receives the scraps after the alpha goes first, the next come second and altruism is what's left. Read. The paper. It's literally the opposite. I just can't with the flunking understanding of altruism. I just can't. Read. The. Paper.