Egg Drop Soup for the Mind

Buddhist literary style, much like Latin, is a dead language. Written centuries ago, these pearls of Oriental wisdom tax Occidental minds with hard-to-digest ambiguity on the road to enlightenment. The present work is an irreverent personal odyssey from 'Huh?' to 'A-ha!' - a literary mockumentary of one Westerner's attempt to snub the Zen Buddhist Masters through imitation that led to a kind of paradoxical (but no more than partial) self-indoctrination in the essence of Buddhism.

Designed as a humorously-cerebral alternative to the 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' series, 'Egg Drop Soup for the Mind' is intended for a complex yet open-minded reader who yearns for a daily intracranial dosage of meditation that cattle-prods the mind and lightens the heart. This book is equally likely to appeal to the spiritually irreverent youngster as to the seasoned spiritual seeker who may have found as much emptiness as meaning in the New Age and Self-Growth literature. The book also serves as a kind of spiritual sales pitch, a springboard of curiosity into Buddhism.

The book is organized into 7 chapters, each reflecting different genres and aspects of Buddhist literature, from koans to haiku. 'Egg Drop Soup for the Mind' consists of original work, and is not a translation of any of the Buddhist texts.