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    That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being A Faithful Jew and a Passionate
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    That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being A Faithful Jew and a Passionate

    By Sylvia Boorstein

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    In this landmark book, esteemed Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein addresses this incisive question in a warm, delightful and personal way. With the same down-to-earth charm and wit that have endeared her to her many students and readers, Boorstein shows how one can be both an observant Jew and a passionately committed Buddhist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 5, 2010
    ISBN9780062031280
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    That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being A Faithful Jew and a Passionate
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    Sylvia Boorstein

    Sylvia Boorstein, teaches mindfulness and leads retreats across the United States. She is a co-founding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, and a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Center in Barre, Massachusetts. Boorstein is also a practicing psychotherapist. Her previous books are It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness and Don't Just Do Something, Sit There. She lives with her husband, Seymour Boorstein, a psychiatrist. They have two sons, two daughters, and five grandchildren.

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    • 4/5
      Aside from some unsettling remarks about Israel that I can tentatively attribute to ignorance, I found this book full of wisdom and useful commentary on the nature of Buddhism and religion in the modern world.
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      In a series of very short essays - almost more like magazine columns, although these appear to have been written specifically for this book -- Sylvia Boorstein recounts stations on her spiritual journey to being an observant Jewish Buddhist. The key to this mix in her case is that her worldview is essentially Buddhist, while her main linguistic, scriptural, prayer, and ritual traditions are Jewish. As an explanation of what the world looks like from that perspective, the book is beautiful and accessible, and offers a great deal of practical wisdom. Boorstein explains how she can build her faith on the premises that everything is emptiness, that all suffering stems from attachment, and that liberation for all beings is the best ultimate goal, and still consider herself to be wholly Jewish. To do this requires a fairly abstracted understanding of God and her relationship to the divine; for some liberal Jews (as, in a parallel way, for some liberal Christians), that may not be an impossible stretch, but for some more concrete adherents, it certainly is. I suspect Boorstein would be the first to say she isn't universalizing her experience, that everyone's path is necessarily their own. At the same time, she does emphasize, both in her own and in some close friends' lives, that pursuit of Buddhist meditation and ethics has only deepened her commitment to Jewish culture and ritual, and she believes that this path is open to at least some others.